Signed book: Brave New World (but bound Blood Precedent). Later printing. NY: Harper & Brothers, 1946. Hardcover, 5.5 x 8.25, 311 pages. In keeping with the mixed-up presentation, Huxley and fellow author Fleur Cowles, have each signed wit the other’s last name on the first free end page in black ink, by Huxley signing, “And with the compliments of the hermaphroditic author, Aldous Cowles,” below a signature and inscription from Fleur Cowles, “To Leonard Lyons, the sleuth in print, Fleur Huxley.” Autographic condition: fine, with light toning to signed page. Book condition: VG/None. Red cloth-covered boards; light wear to edges, with tiny tears in cloth at corners/spine-ends and a bump to front upper edge; spine sunned; minor soiling; slightly yellowed. Cowles was a writer and editor, and Lyons a nationally syndicated columnist. An interesting associative piece, signed in an unusual manner. Pre-certified PSA/DNA and RR Auction COA.
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