Devils Loudun, First Edition (28 results)

HARDCOVER. Condition: VG WITHOUT D.J. FIRST EDITION. PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL CLOTH COVERED BOARDS WITH JUST A SLIGHT BIT OF CORNER RUB/WEAR, PREVIOUS OWNERS NAME ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER, AND FAINT INSECT TRACKING ON EDGE OF COVERS. A NICE CLEAN COPY WITH A REMAINDER MARK ON BOTTOM EDGE.

PAPERBACK. Condition: Very Good. FIRST PRINTING. VANESSA REDGRAVE & OLIVER REED COVER.

HARDCOVER. Condition: VG+ WITHOUT D.J. FIRST EDITION. PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL CLOTH COVERED BOARDS WITH JUST A SLIGHT BIT OF CORNER RUB AND PREVIOUS OWNERS NAME ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN ENDPAPER. A VERY NICE COPY.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1971 Penguin Paperback 1st Edition 1st Impression . Very good+ clean tight binding with wonderful film tie in cover design as shown.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. The book and contents are clean and tight. The front free end paper has a name, date, and question mark written on it. Dust jacket has heavy edge chipping and damp stains on top 1/2" and bottom 1 1/2" of the rear cover.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition Thus. [nice tight copy with mild edgewear to covers, a touch of age-browning to front cover]. Mass Market PB (B&W photographs) A reprint of Huxley's account (originally published in 1952) of "demonic possession and witchcraft in a seventeenth-century French convent." It's "the story of one of the strangest occurrences in history -- that of Father Grandier, a priest of Loudun in the era of Cardinal Richelieu, who is accused of being responsible for mass hysteria in a convent whose nuns believed themselves possessed of devils." This somewhat uncommon edition was a tie-in with the fantastically over-the-top 1971 film adaptation, simply called THE DEVILS, written and directed by Ken Russell and starring Oliver Reed (as the not-at-all-good Father) and Vanessa Redgrave (as the super-sexually-repressed nun who incites the accusations). There is an 8-page photo insert featuring scenes from the film.

Hardcover. Condition: VG/G. First Edition. Light wear to book, occasion light pencilled underlinings in early pages. Unclipped jacket worn with losses at spine extremites 376 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. good plus book in very worn dj. tears as per pictue, mostly present Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 340pp.frontispiece. black boards. foxing to the endpapers, otherwise clean, unmarked text. Unclipped pictorial jacket has $4.00 price on the front flap.There is foxing to the front and rear flaps, wear to the spine edges. "The Devils of Loudun is a 1952 non-fiction account expressed in a novelistic style by Aldous Huxley. It recounts the events of the Loudun possessions of 1634. It is a historical narrative of supposed demonic possession, religious fanaticism, sexual repression, and mass hysteria that occurred in 17th-century France surrounding unexplained events that took place in the small town of Loudun. It centers on Roman Catholic priest Urbain Grandier and an entire convent of Ursuline nuns, who allegedly became possessed by demons after Grandier made a pact with Satan. The events led to several public exorcisms as well as executions by burning." Size: octavo. Book.

Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, 376 pages. In Good plus condition with a Good minus dust jacket. Spine pictorial black with red and beige lettering. Exterior has moderate wear including some instances of open chips to the head/tail edges, mild scuffs, faint soiling and slight soiling. Closed chip to the rear head edge. Moderate age toning and slight dark offsetting to jacket interior. Boards have slight wear including light sunning and mild cocking to the spine. Text block has slight wear including mild age toning and light foxing to the fore/tail edges with head edge colored black. Offsetting to the end papers. Frontispiece. Illustrated. First edition. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex, Column X. 1406381. FP New Rockville Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First American Edition. First Printing. A Fine copy (slight offset to front endpaper), in a Fine unfaded dustwrapper, price-clipped. 340pp. with index. Q12620.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Dark navy blue cloth with typical Harper/Huxley horizontal gold bandings along spine and title box in red. Book is tight, square, particularly sharp-cornered and free of markings and flaws inside and out, other than some minor fading to bands and titling on spine. First Edition, first printing with Harper's code H-B on the copyright page. Now protected in archival quality mylar. Alas without DJ.

First Edition. Good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 376 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-376) and index. Subjects; Grandier, Urbain (1590-1634). Couvent des Ursulines (Loudun, France) History 17th century. Catholic Church France 17th century. Demoniac possession France Loudun History 17th century. Magic. Demoniac possession. Witchcraft France 17th century. Possession Demonology. Loudun Ursulene Convent. Loudun (France) Church history 17th century. France Loudun. Loudun - possession - witchcraft. Genres; Bibliography. Biography. Illustrated. 1 Kg.

Hardback. Condition: Near Fine. Black and White illustrations by John Bratby. Near Fine, in cardboard slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Stated FIrst Edition. Unclipped DJ in archival cover, edge wear.

First Edition. Complete, original copy with the front cover nearly separated.

First Edition. Good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 376 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-376) and index. Subjects; Grandier, Urbain (1590-1634). Couvent des Ursulines (Loudun, France) History 17th century. Catholic Church France 17th century. Demoniac possession France Loudun History 17th century. Magic. Demoniac possession. Witchcraft France 17th century. Possession Demonology. Loudun Ursulene Convent. Loudun (France) Church history 17th century. France Loudun. Loudun - possession - witchcraft. Genres; Bibliography. Biography. Illustrated. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression, published by Chatto & Windus in 1952. Unclipped dust jacket has several areas of historical strengthening tape to the edges, plus a tear to the bottom of spine which has been neatly repaired to the inside with archival paper repair tape. Jacket now in a tidy removable protective wrapper. Bright red covers with a few spots to the top edges of covers and back, dyed top edge, secure binding, with a lean. Endpapers tanned, otherwise pages clean and bright. Good condition, jacket fair. Huxley's exploration of a 17th-century French case of mass hysteria and religious obsession, focusing on the accusations of sorcery against priest Urbain Grandier. The book analyses the psychological underpinnings of the apparent possessions of Ursuline nuns and highlights the political manipulation behind the subsequent trial and brutal execution. This non-fiction work examines how personal vendettas, repressed desires, and state power intersected to create a tragic collision of spiritual delusion and judicial murder.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. Hardcover first edition in very good condition with a mylar wrapped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression, published by Chatto & Windus in 1952. Unclipped dust jacket, a few small nicks to the edges, rear panel and verso are a little tanned and spotted, overall quite smart. Orange cloth covers, slightly soiled feeling, but bright, slightly cocked spine, strong brown top edge, secure binding, some offsetting and a few spots to the endpapers only, pages otherwise clean and bright, no inscriptions. Very good condition. Huxley's exploration of a 17th-century French case of mass hysteria and religious obsession, focusing on the accusations of sorcery against priest Urbain Grandier. The book analyses the psychological underpinnings of the apparent possessions of Ursuline nuns and highlights the political manipulation behind the subsequent trial and brutal execution. This non-fiction work examines how personal vendettas, repressed desires, and state power intersected to create a tragic collision of spiritual delusion and judicial murder.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. orange boards, black label, gilt lettering, 376 pp first edition covers and spine lightly worn and soiled, bookstamp to pastedown front endpaper Standard shipping (no tracking or insurance) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition. Generally a Vg+ hardback copy in jacket, with just slight tanning to the endpapers, and insignificant chipped loss to base of the spine, to detract.Not price clipped.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. DJ price clipped. Significant foxing to DJ. Bumped edges. Red cloth, bright and clean copy. Tight binding in very good+ condition overall.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1952 Chatto & Windus Hardcover 1st Edition 1st Impression. near fine clean tight binding in near fine unclipped dustjacket. Wonderful jacket design as shown.

Condition: Good. 1952. First Edition. 376 pages. Illustrated jacket (priced 18s net) over red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Includes several B&W illustrations. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Slight gutter cracking. Binding is firm. Minor detritus in gutters. A few dog-eared corners. Text block edges are very tanned and foxed with minor scratches. Boards have some moderate edge wear, with slight bumping to corners and minor bumping to spine ends. Boards a little rubbed and marked overall. Boards are notably bowed. Book has a moderate forward lean. Gilt is bright. Unclipped jacket has some edgewear with chips, tears and creasing. Small areas of loss to spine ends. Jacket is a touch rubbed and marked overall. Notable foxing and tanning to flaps and rear panel.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. First edition, hardcover (8.00 x 5.50", 20.50 x 13.0 cm), orange cloth with gilt lettering on a brown label on the spine. The top pages edges are stained brown with the original dust jacket signed 'Bird', 376 pp. Stylistically balancing between non-fiction and fiction, this is Huxley's account of a historical event of demonic possession in 1634 of the Ursuline nuns by Urbain Grandier who was then prosecuted by Cardinal Richelieu. The book is in great shape, binding and all except for a slight discoloration on the first two front free end papers. The dust jacket as well is in surprisingly good condition with some small areas of darkening at the top and edgewear. A wonderfully maintained book wrapped in mylar, rated very good to near fine. A very nice first edition of Huxley's best novel.

First Edition. Frontispiece Very nice copy in somewhat frayed and worn dust-wrapper with slight loss and internal repairs to edges.

205 S. Gutes Exemplar, Erstausgabe.