Crome Yellow - Aldous Huxley (Chatto & Windus Collected Edition, 1949)

This Chatto & Windus Collected Edition of Crome Yellow (1949) is of interest to collectors of Aldous Huxley, 20th century British fiction, and the Chatto & Windus Collected Huxley series.

About: Good copy in the original sage green cloth binding with gilt spine lettering and decorative gilt spine rule; top edge gilt present; boards with some light soiling and scuffing consistent with the period; spine gilt partially faded; binding firm and square; pages with age toning consistent with the period, text clean and legible throughout; no dust jacket - plain cloth binding as issued in the Collected Edition format; published by Chatto & Windus, London and Clarke, Irwin & Company Ltd, Toronto; first published 1921, first issued in this Collected Edition 1949.

Details:

• Title: Crome Yellow
• Author: Aldous Huxley
• Publisher: Chatto & Windus, London / Clarke, Irwin & Company Ltd, Toronto
• Publication: First issued in this Collected Edition 1949 (first published 1921)
• Binding: Hardcover - original sage green cloth with gilt spine lettering and rule; top edge gilt
• Condition: Good (light soiling and scuffing to boards; spine gilt partially faded; pages with age toning; binding firm)
  

Synopsis: Chatto & Windus Collected Edition, 1949; first published 1921; original sage green cloth with gilt spine lettering and decorative rule; top edge gilt; no dust jacket as issued; appealing to collectors of Huxley, 20th century British fiction, and the Chatto & Windus Collected series.

Review: Crome Yellow, first published by Chatto & Windus in 1921, is Aldous Huxley's debut novel - a sparkling, satirical roman à clef set at a country house party that skewers the Bloomsbury set and the intellectual fashions of the early 1920s with wit, irreverence, and considerable literary confidence. The novel introduced Huxley's characteristic blend of ideas, comedy, and social observation, and established him immediately as one of the most distinctive voices of his generation. The Chatto & Windus Collected Edition of 1949 — in its characteristic sage green cloth with gilt spine - is the standard collected format for Huxley's works and a handsome addition to any Huxley library.