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Leda.

Stock Code 107953

Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1929

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One of 361 copies - signed by the author. Aldous Huxley was one of the most prolific 20th-century authors, primarily known for his dystopian novel Brave New World. Huxley also wrote this collection of poems which he entitled Leda. This 1929 edition was part of a limited print run of 361 copies signed by Huxley himself, and illustrated by Eric Gill by special arrangement with the Golden Cockerel Press.

Limited edition, one of 361 copies, signed by the author, unnumbered; 8vo; engravings by Eric Gill, occasional light offsetting, otherwise unmarked internally; original cream cloth boards, black leather spine label with gilt lettering, housed in the slightly worn original unprinted cardboard slipcase.

Gill 282.
Provenance

Provenance: The printer C. William Schneidereith (bookplate to front pastedown).

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Leda.

HUXLEY, Aldous; GILL, Eric (illustrator).

Stock code: 107953

$416.00

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