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Speaking Personally...
NY: Caedmon, 1973. Double LP record (TC 2074). Gatefold sleeve, with cover photograph of the author by Philippe Halsman and liner notes by Philip Thody.
Features interviews with Huxley conducted by John Chandos recorded on July 7 and 11, 1961 in London, including a final section on psychedelic drugs.
In her biography of Huxley, Sybille Bedford deals at some length with this series of important interviews, writing that “The point of the interview is that it has left us with such a characteristic record not only of Aldous’s thought but of Aldous’s way of expressing it.”
A Mint copy, still factory sealed. Also released in the UK by Lansdowne Records, with a different sleeve design (priority unknown).
