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HUXLEY, ALDOUS. EYELESS IN GAZA. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1936. Hard Cover Very Good Following the life of Anthony Beavis, the hero of the novel, an egotist with a hedonistic quest to fulfill himself with the sensual pleasures of life. Who viewed his life as random sets of occurrences, until two events change his life and spiritually which lead to his feelings of hope for the future. Set in the turbulent times of the 20's and 30's. Blue buckram cloth, stripped gilt and blue title panel to front board, stripped gilt to spine, somewhat dulled, spine ends and corners bumped. End papers grey with silver speckle. Mild toning ot text. Front hinge cracked. 8 vo, 437 pp. Solidly bound, no writing, textclean. First American Edition
HUXLEY, ALDOUS. POINT COUNTER POINT. New York: The Literary Guild of America Inc, 1928. Hard Cover Very Good Huxley' satiric view of intellectual life in the 1920's populated with characters based on prominent literary personalities of that time as D. H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, etc. Considered a major work of the 20th century's literary modernism. Purple cloth boards and spine, gilt title panel, spine sunned, spine ends rubbed. In bloch to edge of list of books and title page. All else very clean, tightly bound. Purple end papers. First Edition. No DJ. sm 8 vo, 432 pages
