172. Huxley (Aldous) Leda, first edition , number 99 of 160 copies signed by the author, with autograph excerpt from the poem signed & dated by the author, 1927 on half-title, frontispiece, postcard illustrating a sculpture after Michelangelo’s Leda & the Swan loosely inserted, original cloth-backed boards, t.e.g., others uncut, fine, preserved in buckram dust-jacket and slip-case, 1920; and a fine first trade edition copy of the same, small 4to (2)
est. £250 – £350
The excerpt reads:
“Hushed lay the earth, & the wide careless sky.
Then one sharp sound that might have been a cry
Of utmost pleasure or of utmost pain,
Broke sobbing forth, & all was still again."