Burnside Rare Books

Daedalus, or Science and the Future: A Paper Read to the Heretics, Cambridge on February 4th 1923

Haldane, J.B.S.

New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1924.

First American edition. v, 93pp. Original blue cloth with printed paper labels. Near Fine in Very Good original dust jacket. A few spots of toning to cloth, dust-soiling to edges, a few easily-erasable pencil marks in margins. Jacket chipped along head/back panel and at tail, a little foxed, nick in spine. The author's first book, a wide-ranging lecture on technology, ethics, and science that helped inspired Huxley's novel Brave New World. Item #170319002

Price: $1,200.00