The Collected Poetry of Aldous Huxley

First edition, first impression. 168pp. In blue cloth boards with silver lettering on spine. 8vo. Cloth a little brushed at corners and spine ends. Top text block edge a tad dust darkened. Some toning on rear endpapers, small bookseller’s ticket on front paste down else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket, not price clipped, with minor shelf wear and some toning on verso, small paper scar near top edge of front panel. Dust jacket now protected in a Brodart-style sleeve, fitted without the use of tape or adhesives. This volume of poems, some of which were previously published in Huxley’s four previous volumes of verse, demonstrates clearly that poetry was not a sideline for the famous novelist but a necessary way of saying things which could not be conveyed via essays and novels.