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HUXLEY, Aldous (contributor). Coterie, London: The Bomb Shop, Hendersons, 1919-1920. 7 numbers in 6 fascicules (all published, numbers 6/7 a double issue), 4°, pictorial titles and illustrations after David Bomberg, André Derain, Nina Hamnett, Amedeo Modigliani, Edward Wadsworth and others, original printed pictorial wrappers after Bomberg, Hamnett and others, contained in a contemporary cloth box titled in gold (some light fading, short clean tear on wrapper of number 1, wrappers of number 3 slightly frayed at edges, box slightly worn at joints). Eschelbach and Shober 459, 473, 498, 547, and 640; Muir and van Thal Huxley and Powys p.37.
HUXLEY, Aldous. A black and white photograph, full-length, of Huxley holding a dog, circa 1925, laid down on a card mount and signed in ink on the image 'Aldous Huxley', the image 123 x 77mm. (photograph slightly faded).
A FINE SET OF COTERIE, WITH A SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH OF HUXLEY. In January 1919 Aldous Huxley wrote to his brother Julian: 'But it really seems to me that the only hope is to have a dual personality paper, where the good and the vulgar are mixed; people will swallow the good quite eagerly if it is sufficiently tempered with the vulgar. The ideal paper then would be one where a drawing, say, by Gertler would alternate with a delicious prurience by Raphael Kirchner and a poem by myself with an outgush of la Wilcox [Ella Wheeler Wilcox]. Such a paper is, I believe, on the point of being started; and if it is I have slight hopes of becoming the editor of the good side of it' (Letters, p.174, noting that this 'appears to have been Coterie'). Huxley duly became a member of the editorial committee of Coterie (as were T.S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis and Richard Aldington), and contributed the short stories 'Imaginary Conversation' and 'A Country Walk', the poems 'Beauty' and 'Leda', and the play 'Permutations among the Nightingales' (numbers 3, 5, 1, 2 and 4 respectively). (7)
HUXLEY, Aldous. A black and white photograph, full-length, of Huxley holding a dog, circa 1925, laid down on a card mount and signed in ink on the image 'Aldous Huxley', the image 123 x 77mm. (photograph slightly faded).
A FINE SET OF COTERIE, WITH A SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH OF HUXLEY. In January 1919 Aldous Huxley wrote to his brother Julian: 'But it really seems to me that the only hope is to have a dual personality paper, where the good and the vulgar are mixed; people will swallow the good quite eagerly if it is sufficiently tempered with the vulgar. The ideal paper then would be one where a drawing, say, by Gertler would alternate with a delicious prurience by Raphael Kirchner and a poem by myself with an outgush of la Wilcox [Ella Wheeler Wilcox]. Such a paper is, I believe, on the point of being started; and if it is I have slight hopes of becoming the editor of the good side of it' (Letters, p.174, noting that this 'appears to have been Coterie'). Huxley duly became a member of the editorial committee of Coterie (as were T.S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis and Richard Aldington), and contributed the short stories 'Imaginary Conversation' and 'A Country Walk', the poems 'Beauty' and 'Leda', and the play 'Permutations among the Nightingales' (numbers 3, 5, 1, 2 and 4 respectively). (7)