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Huxley, Aldous. The Art of Seeing (Seventeenth Edition). New York: Harper & Brothers,
B0007JSWA4, TEXT PRISTINE Binding mildly sunned; else flawless. Corresponds to / earlier, hard cover edition of ASIN: B0007JSWA4. ND; copyright 1942. Book Description: "Both a document and a handbook The Art of Seeing records Aldous Huxley's victory over near-blindness and details the simple exercises anyone can follow to improve eyesight. Using the method devised by Dr. W. H. Bates, 'the pioneer of visual education,' as Huxley called him, and heeding the advice of Dr. Bates' disciple, Margaret D. Corbett, Aldous Huxley conquered a vision problem that had plagued him for more than a quarter century."
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Huxley, Aldous: The Art of Seeing, 1942 New York Harper & Brothers

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Huxley, Aldous / David Bradshaw ed. Aldous Huxley - Between the Wars - Essays and Letters, Ivan R Dee Chicago 1994
Hardcover in DJ. BRAND NEW from publisher - Never opened, Never owned, Never marked. Excellent Gift Giving quality. Jacket protected in New non-stick clear mylar sleeve. 255 pages with index. Skilfully edited & introduced, this book contains Aldous Huxley essays on art & literature, letters to H.L. Mencken & H.G. Wells, as well as social & political writings from the early and later 1930s. It enhances Huxley's stature as one of the giants of modern English prose and of social commentary of our time.The Aldous Huxley letters and essays published here in book form , for the first time, reveal the time between World Wars One and Two to be a time of ferment for Huxley - he was moving from his fascination with elitist rule, toward an appreciation of common people.' Until this book, the depth of Huxley's distaste for mass society was undocumented - as was his disdain for parliamentary democracy, and later mutation into a point man for the anti fascist intelligentsia, and his becoming a sporkesman for the dispossessed. Typical of his era, here was Huxley denouncing parliamentary democracy as a system "whereby confidence tricksters, rich men and quacks may be given power by the votes of an electorate composed in great part of mental Peter Pans. " He was also on about the possibilities of eugenics to 'improve the human breed' ; even compulsory sterilization attracted his attention. Ye he was scarcely aloof. He was aware of social and political upheavals of the period, made frequent visits to England to investigate them, and wrote trenchantly about them. His visit to a mining village prompted a tribute to its miners that foreshadowed by six years Orwell's praise in The Road to Wigan Pier. The deteriorating situation in Germany following Hitler's appointment as chancellor in 1933 and Huxley's firsthand experience with Mussolini 's fascism, as well as with victims of Nazi oppression, finally led to what the editor of this collection calls " a sea change in Huxley's attitude to authoritarianism. " Titles include : Babies - State Property , Abroad in England , Victory of Art over Humanity , Sight-Seeing in Alien Englands, Is Cruelty out of Date ?, Science and Civilisation, Dispatches from the Riviera, Sex the Slump and Salvation, Education, Prospects of Fascism in England, Casino and Bourse, Artists against Facism and War, and many more ... " Aldous Huxley - Between the Wars - Essays and Letters " , by Aldous Huxley, edited by David Bradshaw ...published by Ivan R. Dee Publishers, Chicago ... 1994 First American Edition Hardcover in Dustjacket ... Brand New Gift Giving quality

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Huxley, Aldous. The Art Of Seeing. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1942.
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Lightly read unmarked copy. Deckled edges. DJ small closed tears edges & spine. Minor dent on back front edge. Huxley's own experience of his recovery from near-blindness. 273pp..

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