The human situation: Lectures at Santa Barbara, 1959 (A Cass Canfield book)

First Edition, 1977, first printing, 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1, an almost like-new, unread, unopened, slightly aged hardcover, without a dust jacket, from Harper.& Row. By Aldous Huxley. 262 pages with index. ** Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) was the author of the classic novels Island, Eyeless in Gaza, and The Genius and the Goddess, as well as such critically acclaimed nonfiction works as The Devils of Loudun, The Doors of Perception, and The Perennial Philosophy. Born in Surrey, England, and educated at Oxford, he died in Los Angeles. Seller's note: How well I remember the packed Dwinelle Plaza speech he gave in the late 1950s at UC Berkeley where I was an undergrad. He was very old and frail and blind, I think, but the speech was electrifying. Of course, he later became something of a father-figure for the psychedelic culture of the '60s with his The Doors of Perception.