[Ads-l] Request access to 1934 Easton Press edition of Erewhon with introduction by Aldous Huxley

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Fantastic. Thanks for your willingness to help, Dave. Excellent effort
locating the proper edition in the Princeton library catalog.

Apparently, the 1934 edition was issued by Limited Editions Club of
New York; printed by the Pynson printers; illustrated by Rockwell
Kent; introduction by Aldous Huxley; fifteen hundred copies.

My previous message referred to an edition from Easton Press, but the
Easton Press edition seems to be a reprint from the 1980s. It contains
the introduction by Huxley, but it is not the original edition. The
Wikiquote webpage for Aldous Huxley incorrectly refers to the edition
from Easton Press.

Garson

On Sat, Jul 6, 2024 at 7:48 AM dave at wilton.net <dave at wilton.net> wrote:
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> Garson,
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> I can make a trip over to the rare book room of Princeton's Firestone library and take some photos. I need to go on campus in the next few days, so it's no great trouble. But if someone else has easier access, that is probably better.
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> BTW, it's the edition illustrated by Rockwell Kent, so that might be a help in identifying who has access to it.
>
> --Dave
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: "ADSGarson O'Toole" <adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM>
> Sent: Friday, July 5, 2024 3:45pm
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> Subject: [ADS-L] Request access to 1934 Easton Press edition of Erewhon with introduction by Aldous Huxley
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> The Quote Investigator website contains a new article about a
> quotation attributed to Aldous Huxley. Apparently, the quotation
> appeared in a special introduction by Huxley to the 1934 Easton Press
> collector's edition of Samuel Butler’s nineteenth century novel
> "Erewhon".
>
> https://quoteinvestigator.com/2024/07/01/clear-maltreat/
>
> Any suggestion of how I might be able to obtain scans of this 1934
> edition? I was able to find a reprint of the quotation in a syndicated
> 1938 newspaper column, but I have not seen scans of the 1934 edition,
> yet.
>
> Some reference works claim that the quotation appeared in Aldous
> Huxley's 1921 novel "Crome Yellow", but it is not there.
>
> Garson
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