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1918WRCLIT48647Oxford: Basil Blackwell 1918. Decorated wrappers paper label. Spine considerably rubbed extremities worn an ordinary copy. First edition of Huxley's second substantial collection. The edition purportedly consisted of 250 copies but experience would suggest a larger edition was printed. Basil Blackwell unknown books
19922311214New York: Book of the Month Club 1992. Book Club BCE/BOMC. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Book club edition. Faint edge wear. 1992 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. Set during the 17th century this is the story of a convent of nuns who begin acting possessed. Book of the Month Club hardcover books
19521641London: Chatto & Windus 1952. First edition. A fine copy in a slightly rubbed dust jacket. 8vo illustrated original boards dust jacket. A fine copy in a slightly rubbed dust jacket. Chatto & Windus unknown books
195211553New York: Harper & Brothers 1952. 340 pages bibliography index; black and white portrait frontispiece of Urbanus Granderius; "First Edition" stated on copyright page; From the dustjacket information: "In this brilliant historical narrative Aldous Huxley has explored one of the strangest episodes of history.possession.lucid madness.exorcism.the history of Loudun's devils runs the full gamut from the morally squalid to the heroic from tragic sublimity to the grotesque from the ugliest superstition to the highest spirituality." ; publisher's dark blue cloth binding gilt and red spine; some edge tips wear to dustjacketsome old wrinkle lines spine ends chipped a bit; volume in very good condition . First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. Harper & Brothers Hardcover books
1924WRCLIT30999London: Chatto & Windus 1924. Cloth and decorated boards paper spine label. First trade edition. Light offsetting to edges of endsheets otherwise a very nice copy lacking the dust jacket. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
2009WELLER9780061729072Harper Perennial 2009. New. New book. Harper Perennial unknown books
1963193545Harper & Row 1963. Paperback. Good. First Harper Colophon edition from 1963. Softcover is good with modest wear. Binding is slightly creased. One page has marking and one page has corner crease others are clean and unmarked. LO Harper & Row paperback books
1938WRCLIT50512New York: Willey Book Co. 1938. Printed boards. Portrait and plates some in color. First edition. Boards somewhat rubbed and soiled two pencil ownership signatures one on rear pastedown but a good sound copy without dust jacket. Willey Book Co. hardcover books
1938WRCLIT33250New York: Wiley Book Co. 1938. Boards. Portrait and plates some in color. First edition. A very good copy lacking the dust jacket. Wiley Book Co. hardcover books
193837904NY: Willey 1938. First printing. Large 8vo pp. 55. With a note by Jean Videpoche. Illustrated with six color reproductions and 24 in black and white. Paper over boards. A small tear on spine o/w a nice copy. Willey unknown books
195511224.2New York: Harper 1955. 1st US edition. Black cloth spine with grey cloth boards. Orange dust jacket. VG bookplate/age-tongin/VG some wear & soiling/spine panel sunned/clipped lower corner to front flap. 168 pp. Sm 8vo. <br/><br/> Harper hardcover books
1955WRCLIT31038New York: Harper 1955. Cloth. First U.S. edition. Very good in price- clipped spine-sunned jacket. Harper hardcover books
1955WRCLIT33183New York: Harper 1955. Cloth. First U.S. edition. A very nice copy in slightly tanned dust jacket. Harper hardcover books
1955WRCLIT29416London: Chatto & Windus 1955. Cloth. First British edition. Top edge dusty else about fine in dust jacket. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1955WRCLIT19431London: Chatto & Windus 1955. Cloth. First British edition. Very good in dust jacket. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1955000033New York: Harper and Brothers 1955. Dust jacket spine sunned. 168pp. First Edition. Gray Cloth Black Back Strip. Nearly Fine/Lightly Worn Dust Jacket. Octavo. Harper and Brothers Hardcover books
195539281NY: Harper 1955. First Edition. 8vo pp. 168. VG. Harper unknown books
1938WRCLIT29554London: Chatto & Windus 1938. Decorated boards. First separate edition issued in the Zodiac Book series. Neat early ink ownership inscription otherwise near fine in dust jacket. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
1957115745New York: the academy 1957. Pp.675-685 of about 220p. Coated paperstock throughout plain printed journal wraps first edition of this conference paper. Spine panel shows a little light abrasion back wrap a bit of light creasing near the spine. A nice copy. Note that "Meprobamate" was marketed as "Miltown" "This series of papers is the result of a conference on Meprobamate. held by the New York Academy of Sciences Section of Biology and Psychology on October 18 and 19 1956" --Huxley in metaphysical mode doesn't sound like he actually popped any "mepro" went to the conference for the honorarium and a chance to pontificate. We see no other contributor here there are some forty of good or ill repute although Howard F. Hunt's paper "Some effects of meprobamate on conditoned fear and emotional behavior" is unpleasant enough. Hunt first teaches rats fear: "An ordinarily neutral stimulus usually a clicking noise .is presented for several minutes and is then terminated approximately simultaneously with the presentation of one or two painful shocks to the feet delivered through the grill floor of the apparatus. After a few such pairings of stimulii .the conditioned rats normally show a tense crouching or 'freezing' reaction. and usually defecate as well" --and they tend thereupon to lose useful conditionings like how to get a water "reward" by pressing a lever. Reward! so they're kept thirsty. C.I.A. surely tried this one out on people. Hunt's sequence is to then give these rats MEPROBAMATE to relax 'em and see what conditionings re-emerge. Much more exciting than Huxley's noodlings. Another cataloguer notes meprobamate to have been marketed as Miltown an early tranquilizer. the academy unknown books
192918630London: The Fleuron Ltd 1929. First Limited Edition. Octavo. Original brown buckram stamped in gilt on spine and front cover; 64pp. Number 30 of 300 hand-numbered copies printed at the Curwen Press. Stencil-colored text illustrations by Albert Rutherston. Darkened at spine and board edges else a tight Near Fine copy in a later custom linen slipcase. The Fleuron Ltd unknown books
1937WRCLIT47387New York: Harper & Brothers 1937. Cloth. First U.S. edition. Spine gilding oxidized a bit literary ownership signature on free endsheet otherwise very good in modestly used and smudged dust jacket with a few small shallow chips. Harper & Brothers hardcover books
1936115671London: Chatto & Windus 1936. Signed limited edition one of 160 copies this is number 41. Octavo original cloth. Boldly signed by Aldous Huxley. In near fine condition. This is one of the best collections of essays that Mr. Huxley has ever made. The title-piece is a completely new departure in technique from anything he has written before: a meditation darting from topic to topic on the olive tree and the associations which it has for the author. Chatto & Windus hardcover books
19313668London Chatto & Windus 1931. 1931. First English edition so stated. 8vo. 104 pages. Original yellow mustard cloth stamped in gilt. Dust jacket unclipped; nicks; soiling. Very good. No signatures or bookplates. First published original drama of Huxley first produced at the Royalty Theater London March 30 1931. F. Hardcover. London, Chatto & Windus, 1931. hardcover books
19313669London Chatto & Windus 1931. 1931. First English edition so stated. 8vo. 104 pages. Original yellow mustard cloth stamped in gilt. Dust jacket unclipped; slight rubbing. Very good. Bookplate of George H. Shmitter with vignettes after William Blake and Stephen Gooden. First published original drama of Huxley first produced at the Royalty Theater London March 30 1931. F. Hardcover. London, Chatto & Windus, 1931. hardcover books
19319027001London: Chatto & Windus 1931. 1st . Hardcover. Fine. One of 160 numbered copies signed by Huxley. Shows wear and rubbing at the extremities but still a very good copy. <br/><br/> Chatto & Windus hardcover books
