HUXLEY (ALDOUS) Brave New World. A Novel, FIRST EDITION, Chatto & Windus, 1932HUXLEY (ALDOUS)Brave New World. A Novel, FIRST EDITION, half-title, light spotting to text block edges, a a few other single spots, publisher's blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine (slightly faded and light rubbing at ends), dust-jacket uncut priced '7s.6d Net' (light spotting to lower cover and spine, spine with some loss at head touching "B" and "E" of title, and tear at lower section resulting in small losses, short tears to upper margin of upper cover, small losses at corners), preserved in cloth solander box, 8vo, Chatto & Windus, 1932First edition of Brave New World, "an international best-seller... the novel, the first about human cloning, is a dystopia set five centuries in the future, when overpopulation has led to biogenetic engineering. Through computerized genetic selection, social engineers create a population happy with its lot. All the earth's children are born in hatcheries, and Soma, a get-happy pill, irons out most problems. Huxley wrote to George Orwell suggesting that Nineteen Eighty Four's vision of governmental autocracy was less likely than Brave New World's society amusing itself to death" (ODNB).Provenance: Sotheby's, 13 December 2001, lot 324.