![]() ![]() Edmundsbury Press, & bound by Hunter & Foulis, Edinburgh. First published in this edition in 1971, this is the 1997 reprint, set in "Monophoto" Univers Light, printed on Caxton Wove paper by St. Octavo, bound in shiny silver paper over boards stamped with a gray image of a baby & roses to front board, lettered in red to spine. Housed in a sturdy cardboard slipcase covered in glossy black paper. This is a stunning Folio Society edition illustrated with a frontispiece & 8 internal stark pen-and-ink drawings by British artist Leonard Rosoman (1913-2012) in one of the last works of his life. Ranked fifth on the Modern Library's list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. "The mighty novel of a soulless, streamlined Eden-and two who escape it" which set the standard for dystopian fiction, & still as chilling as when it was first issued in 1932.
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