Crome Yellow
Chatto & Windus, 1921.
First edition. 8vo. Original yellow orange cloth with title label on spine, lettered in green, in rare cream and green lettered dustwrapper. A near fine copy with the front hinge starting to split some light spotting to the page edges with bookplate on the front pastedown, but covers remain bright, in a lovely, near fine dustwrapper, very bright and clean with trifling wear to the spine ends and corners, internally reinforced and a tiny nick to the base of the front panel.
Huxley's first novel and most important of his early work, a thinly veiled satire on Garsington Manor, the home of Lady Ottoline Morrell, where Huxley had lived and worked as a farm labourer during World War I, and where he met his first wife.
Included by Cyril Connoly as part of his 100 Key Books of the Modern Movement and described as "radiant conversation-piece about the first 'bright young people'".
Seldom encountered in a dustwrapper, particularly one so bright.
Connolly 39.
Stock ID: 46124
£6,000.00
