ALDOUS HUXLEY. — Mortal Coils. Stories.

Chatto & Windus, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 229pp. Blue cloth with a printed paper spine label. Publisher's blue stain to the top edge, the fore and bottom edges untrimmed. A narrow sliver of fading to two margins of the upper board. The free endpapers toned, and with just a touch of spotting to two or three preliminary and concluding leaves. A very good copy in toned and spotted dust wrapper, with several tiny slivers of loss from the spine ends and corner tips. The author's uncommon seventh book, containing four stories ('The Gioconda Smile', 'The Tillitson Banquet', 'Green Tunnel' and 'Nuns at Luncheon') and a play ('Permutations Among the Nightingales'). Eschelbach & Shober 42., Very Good, Good