HUXLEY, Aldous.
Grey Eminence: A Study in Religion and Politics.
London: Chatto & Windus , 1956.
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First collected edition of Aldous Huxley's Grey Eminence; finely bound in full crushed red morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe
First collected edition of Huxley's biography of French monk François Leclerc du Tremblay. Octavo, bound in full crushed red morocco by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In near fine condition.
First published in 1941, Huxley's Grey Eminence is a biography of François Leclerc du Tremblay, the French monk who served as advisor to Cardinal de Richelieu and was referred to by others as l'éminence grise. Huxley taught French for a year at Eton College, where Eric Blair (who was to take the pen name George Orwell) and Steven Runciman were among his pupils.
Grey Eminence: A Study in Religion and Politics.
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