Point Counter Point
Huxley, Aldous. The Modern Library, 1928. Hardbound. A classic ML edition of the Huxley-penned roman à clef (it includes thinly veiled portraits of D. H. Lawrence and Katherine Mansfield), featuring the iconic Rockwell Kent–designed end-sheets and a dynamic Deco jacket by E. McKnight Kauffer. The Montana-born Kauffer saw great success as a UK-based emigrant, designing covers for presses including Hogarth and Nonesuch (Francis Meynell called the young designer 'exquisite in face and figure and manners'), as well as a series of 140 promotional posters, many of them referencing modern art movements, for use in the London Underground. $20.
Tight, square spine. Former owner bookplate to front flyleaf, but interior is else clean and unmarked. Some bumped corners. Gilt to spine and front board remains bright. Price-clipped jacket is Mylar-protected and has areas of moderate to heavy edge-wear. 514 pp. Fiction.
