Time Must Have a Stop by Aldous Huxley (1947 and similar items

Time Must Have a Stop by Aldous Huxley (1947 Hardcover without Dust Jacket) Sebastian Barnack, a handsome English schoolboy, goes to Italy for the summer, and there his real education begins. His teachers are two quite different men: Bruno Rontini, the saintly bookseller, who teaches him about things spiritual; and Uncle Eustace, who introduces him to life's profane pleasures. vi + 311 pages. This is the novel that Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) himself thought was his most successful at "fusing idea with story." Time Must Have a Stop is part of Huxley's lifelong attempt to explore the dilemmas of twentieth-century man and to create characters who, though ill-equipped to solve the dilemmas, all go stumbling on in their painfully serious comedies (in this novel we have the dead atheist who returns in a seance to reveal what he has learned after death but is stuck with a second-rate medium who garbles his messages). Time Must Have a Stop is one of Huxley's finest achievements. Hardcover has blue textured paper boards, black lettering on spine, but no dust jacket. Exterior has scar from removal of sticker and paint drop. Age-appropriate patina. Prior owner's signature on ffep, adds no value. Pages are browning from edges inward. Interior is tight, clean and text is unmarked. Copyright 1944. 1st edition through Harper Brothers, this Sun Dial Press Reprint Edition in 1947 was published by special arrangement. Printed in U.S.A. I found no print-run information. No ISBN, LCCN, nor MSR. Thanks for looking!