Jesting Pilate – Aldous Huxley (1926) (1st edition)

S$72.00

Jesting Pilate – Aldous Huxley (1926) (1st edition)

S$72.00

Title: Jesting Pilate

Author: Aldous Huxley

Publisher: Chatto & Windus, 1926. First edition.

Condition: Hardcover, no dust jacket. Good. Spine sunned and slightly frayed. Binding tight, text clean. Some tanning and foxing to edges. With 14 black-and-white photographic plates. 291pp. Approximately 9 x 6 inches.

About the book (from Goodreads):

Huxley, English novelist, essayist, critic & poet, whose reputation & later work was deeply entwined with spiritualism & hallucinogenic drugs, recounts his experiences traveling through six countries (India, Burma, Malaya, Japan, China & America) & offers his observations on their people, cultures & customs.

About Huxley (from Wikipedia):

Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and a prominent member of the Huxley family. Best known for his novels including Brave New World, set in a dystopian London, The Doors of Perception, which recalls experiences when taking a psychedelic drug, and a wide-ranging output of essays, Huxley also edited the magazine Oxford Poetry, and published short stories, poetry, travel writing, film stories and scripts. He spent the later part of his life in the United States, living in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death.

Huxley was a humanist, pacifist, and satirist. He became deeply concerned that human beings might become subjugated through the sophisticated use of the mass media or mood-altering drugs, or tragically impacted by misunderstanding or the misapplication of increasingly sophisticated technology.

Huxley later became interested in spiritual subjects such as parapsychology and philosophical mysticism, in particular, Universalism. He is also well known for his use of psychedelic drugs. By the end of his life Huxley was widely acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent intellectuals of his time.