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Aldous Leonard Huxley

Male : Novelist and writer. Son of Leonard Huxley. Brother of Julian Huxley. Married Maria (an active bisexual) in 1919. He was six feet four and a half inches tall ! From 1937 he lived in the USA
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Godalming, Surrey

Date of Birth : 1894 Date of Death : 1963 Age : 69

Other Work : Taught at Eton 1917-18. Dramatic Critic of Westminster Gazette in 1920

Education : Eton & Balliol College, Oxford (1st in English)
All Chatto & Windus unless stated
1916-1920
The Burning Wheel
(1916 Blackwell)
Jonah
(1917 Holywell) - Ltd Ed 50 signed
The Defeat of Youth & Other Poems
(1918 Blackwell) - Ltd Ed 250
Leda
(1920) + Ltd Signed Ed 160 (1920 Doran)
Limbo
(1920) (1920 Doran)

1921-1925
Crome Yellow
(1921) (1922 Doran)
(Trans) A Virgin Heart (1921)
Mortal Coils
(1922) (1922 Doran)
Antic Hay
(1923) (1923 Doran)
On the Margin : Notes and Essays
(1923) (1923 Doran)
The House of Smith Elder
(1923 PP)
Little Mexican & Other Stories
(1924) (1924 Doran)
Those Barren Leaves
(1925) (1925 Doran)
Selected Poems
(1925 Blackwell) (1925 Appleton)
Along the Road
(1925) (1925 Doran)

1926-1930
Essays New and Old
(1926) (1926 Florence Press - 650 signed) (1927 Doran)
Two or Three Graces & Other Stories
(1926) (1926 Doran)
Jesting Pilate
(1926 Doran) (1930)
Proper Studies
(1927) (1928 Doubleday Doran)
Point Counter Point
(1928) (1928 DD)
Arabia Infelix & Other Poems
(1929 Fountain Press NY) (1929 C & W) - Signed Ltd Ed 692
Do What You Will
(1929) (1929 DD)
Holy Face & Other Essays
(1929 The Fleuron, London) - 300. Albert Rutherston
Offered for £205 in 1998
Leda
(1929 NY) - 361 signed. Eric Gill
Vulgarity in Literature
(1930) + Ltd Ed 260
Apennine
(1930 Slide Mountain Press, US) - Ltd Signed Ed 91
Brief Candles
(1930) (1930 DD) (1930 Fountain Press, NY - 800 signed & numbered)

1931-1935
The Cicadas and Other Poems
(1931) + Signed Ltd Ed 160 (1931 DD)
Music at Night & Other Essays
(1931) + Signed Ltd ed 1684 (1931 DD)
The World of Light
(1931) +160 Signed Ed (1931 DD) - play
Rotunda
(1932) - essays
T H Huxley as a Man of Letters
(1932 Macmillan) - 28 pp booklet
Texts and Pretexts
(1932) (1932 Harper)
Brave New World
(1932) (1932 DD)
[This sold 23.000 copies within two years in the UK]
[A UK first sold at auction in 1999 for £2185]
Retrospect : An Omnibus of Aldous Huxley's Books
(1933 DD)
Beyond the Mexique Bay
(1934) + Signed Ltd Ed 210 (1934 Harper)

1936-1940
Eyeless in Gaza
(1936) (1936 Harper)
Eyeless in Gaza
(1936) + Signed Ltd Ed 200
The Olive Tree & Other Essays
(1936) (1937 Harper)
What are you Going to do About It ? : The Case for Constructive Peace
(1936) (1937 Harper) - 35pp booklet
Ends and Means
(1937) (1937 Harper)
(Ed) An Encyclopaedia of Pacifism (1937)
Ends and Means
(1937) - Signed Ltd Ed 160
Stories, Essays & Poems
(1937 Dent) - anthology
After Many a Summer
(1939) (1939 Harper)
After Many a Summer Dies the Swan
(1939 US)

1940-1950
Grey Eminence
(1941) (1941 Harper)
The Art of Seeing
(1943) (1942 Harper)
Time Must Have a Stop
(1945) (1944 Harper)
Verses and a Comedy
(1946)
The Perennial Philosophy
(1946) (1945 Harper)
Science, Liberty & Peace
(1947 C & W 3/6) (1946 Harper)
The Gioconda Smile
(1948) (1948 Harper) - play
[Filmed in 1948 as "A Woman's Vengeance"]
Ape and Essence
(1948 C & W) (1948 Harper)
The Prisons
(1949 Trianon Press) - Ltd Ed 1212 - G B Piranesi (1949 Zeitlin & Ver Brugge)
Themes and Variations
(1950) (1950 Harper)

1951-1960
The Devils of Loudon
(1952) (1952 Harper)
[Filmed in 1970 as "The Devils"]
The Doors of Perception
(1954 6/-) (1954 Harper)
[In this he describes an afternoon when he injected himself with mescalin]
The Genius and the Goddess
(1955 Chatto & Windus 7/6) (1955 Harper)
Adonis and the Alphabet
(1956) - essays
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
(1956 Harper) - US version of the above
Heaven and Hell
(1956 Chatto & Windus 7/6) (1956 Harper)
Collected Short Stories
(1957 Chatto & Windus 21/-)
Brave New World Revisited
(1959) (1959 Harper) - essays
Collected Essays
(1959 Harper)

After 1961
On Art and Artists
(1961)
Island
(1962) (1962 Harper)
Literature and Science
(1963)
The Crows of Pearlblossom
(1967 Chatto & Windus) - Barbara Cooney
Letters
(1969 C & W) - edited by Grover Smith
Collected Poems : Edited by Donald Watt
(1970 Chatto & Windus 25/-)
Brave New World
(1971 Folio Society) - Leonard Rosoman
Brave New World
(1974 Ltd Eds Club, Avon, CT) - 2000 signed by Mara McAfee
Jacob's Hands
(1998 St Martin's NY) (1998 Bloomsbury £6.99) - with Christopher Isherwood

READING
Percy H Muir : Bibliographies of the First Editions of Books by Aldous Huxley & T F Powys
(1927 Dulau) - 500. With B van Thal
H R Duval : Aldous Huxley - A Bibliography
(1939 NY)
Claire John Eschelbach & Joyce Lee Shober : Aldous Huxley - A Bibliography 1916-1959
(1961 Univ of California Press)
Philip Thody : Aldous Huxley - A Biographical Introduction
(1973 Studio Vista)
Sybille Bedford : Aldous Huxley
(Chatto/Collins 1973-4) - 2 vols
David King Dunaway : Huxley in Hollywood
(1989 Bloomsbury)
Nicholas Murray : Aldous Huxley - An English Intellectual
(2002 Little Brown £20)



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