For sale: a Rare and Exceptional first hardcover edition first printing of Eyeless in Gaza by Aldous Huxley with no dust jacket. First Edition stated, 1936 Harper Brothers. First Printing with 1936 on title page and E-L code on the copyright page which indicates a March 1936 printing.
The book exterior is in Very Good hardcover with clean, bright boards, with a strong sheen and a few marks. The book has lightly toned page blocks, mild spine tilt, rolled spine ends, mild edge wear and lightly rubbed corners. A few chips off of the otherwise strong title gilt on a straight spine. The interior of the book is also in Very Good condition with an erased price on the first free end paper. No other marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership inside. The inside covers and the interior pages are clean and lightly toned, making it an excellent addition to any collection.
No dust jacket.
First published in 1936–and hailed as his best work, Eyeless in Gaza is Aldous Huxley’s loosely autobiographical novel of one man’s search for an alternative to the moral disillusionment of the modern world. Anthony Beavis, a cynical libertine Oxford graduate, comes of age in the vacuum left by World War I. His life, loves, and foreign adventures leave him unfulfilled, until he meets a charismatic doctor who inspires Anthony to become a Marxist and join the Mexican revolution—a disastrous embrace of violence that leaves the doctor with one leg. Shattered by the experience, Anthony forges a new, quasi-Buddhist philosophy that embraces pacifism.
Ships promptly in a secure mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and bubble wrap.
