The Burning Wheel by Aldous Huxley (66 results)

Paperback. Condition: New. The Burning Wheel (1916) is a collection of poems by English author Aldous Huxley. Published when the poet was only twenty-two, The Burning Wheel captures the mind of an artist at its earliest fertile stage, enthralled with a world either blooming with change or wilting with all-out war. Although Huxley is known foremost as a novelist, his poetry exhibits a mastery of language and an uncommon sense of the music inherent to words."The Burning Wheel" opens the collection with a kaleidoscopic vision of life and creation, illuminating the poet's debt to the French Symbolists. "Weary of its own turning," the burning wheel slows for a moment's rest. This wheel, both machine and pure, wild flame, is the poet compelled to create, the mind that "[w]akes from the sleep of its quiet brightness / And burns with a darkening passion and pain." In "Quotidian Vision," Huxley returns to earth to remark: "There is a sadness in the street / And sullenly the folk I meet / Droop their heads as they walk along." In these simple, rhyming couplets, the poet channels the verse and vision of William Blake to see, despite the "mist of cold and muffling grey," a "dead world move for him once more / With beauty for its living core." The Burning Wheel is a compelling collection from an artist whose poetry is no less remarkable for having gone mostly unnoticed.With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Aldous Huxley's The Burning Wheel is a classic of English literature reimagined for modern readers.

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A collection of classic poetry by the inimitable Aldous Huxley. The poems include: The Burning Wheel, Doors Of The Temple, Villiers De L'isle-Adam, Darkness, Mole, The Two Seasons, Two Realities, Quotidian Vision, Vision, The Mirror, Variations On A Theme Of Laforgue, Philosophy, Philoclea In The Forest, Books And Thoughts, "Contrary To Nature And Aristotle," Escape, The Garden, The Canal, The Ideal Found Wanting, Misplaced Love, Sonnet, Sentimental Summer, The Choice, The Higher Sensualism, Sonnet, Formal Verses, Perils Of The Small Hours, Complaint, Return To An Old Home, Fragment, and The Walk. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Seiten: 49 | Produktart: Sonstiges.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 62. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1916 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 62.

Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 51 pages + ad. "Adventures All Series No. 7". Printed paper label to cover and spine of original cream wrappers. Some edgewear, soiling to wrappers, spine label lifting to lower edge, previous owner's name to half title, small bookseller label to verso of front cover. The Author's first book. Size 195mm. x 145mm. [829] Size: 195mm. x 145mm. Book.

First edition. Original pale yellow wrappers with title label on upper cover. A fine copy, with just a touch of wear to the spine ends. Very bright and clean. Housed in a custom slipcase and chemise. Pictorial title page and frontispiece. The author's first book written in his last year at Oxford, and published in an edition of only 350. Huxley, primarily remembered for his novels and to a lesser extent his essays, began his writing career as a poet. While a student at Balliol College at Oxford, having been exempted from military service due to extremely poor eyesight, he was involved in several student poetry magazines. In September 1916 this first book of poetry was printed in Oxford. Number 7 in a series entitled "Adventurers All", a series of young poets "unknown to fame." Bromer: A1.

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First edition. Only 250 copies printed. His uncommon first book -- a selection of poetry published as number 7 in Blackwell's "Adventurers All" series of "young poets unknown to fame." Small 8vo cream paperwraps with lower and fore edges yapped (i.e., overhanging) and printed labels to front and spine; 51 pages plus one-page publisher's ads. Slight loss at base of spine, spine label a little rubbed affecting tips of few letters, covers lightly soiled and slightly edge worn. Still, about very good for this fragile production. Scarce volume of verse from the author of BRAVE NEW WORLD.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition of Aldous Huxley's first book. A presentation copy, signed by the author and inscribed to Elbridge Adams, dated 1929. Bound in publisher's original cream-colored wraps with title label to spine and upper cover. Very Good with soiling and edge wear, and a short split started at the bottom of the front spine fold. The words "Printed in Great Britain" penciled to title page, and pages lightly thumbed. Housed in a custom green cloth folding slipcase.