{"id":8901,"date":"2012-09-23T09:15:07","date_gmt":"2012-09-23T16:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/?p=8901"},"modified":"2021-09-30T11:30:20","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T18:30:20","slug":"harold-lewis-doc-humes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/archives\/harold-lewis-doc-humes\/","title":{"rendered":"FEATURED: HAROLD LEWIS &#8220;DOC&#8221; HUMES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"first3words\">Humes was a co-founder of The Paris Review in 1953, along with Peter Matthiessen and George Plimpton. <\/span>He studied writing with Archibald MacLeish at Harvard, graduating in 1954. A Scientist, novelist, activist, inventor, filmmaker, architect, prophet, healer, madman, Harold &#8220;Doc&#8221; Humes was, by all accounts, an exhilarating, infuriating and terrifyingly brilliant man. He participated in Leary&#8217;s LSD experiments and later continued his own experiments, guiding the first LSD experiences of several famous literary friends. He reinvented himself as a &#8220;guru on campus&#8221;, a self-appointed visiting professor, and spent the next 20-odd years living on or near-campus at Columbia, Princeton, Bennington, and Harvard.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong> Hard bound with dust jacket. First printing of this now cult-classic title set during a build-up to an inevitable war, in which the US Navy assigns an all black crew to work under three white officers on an insanely dangerous munitions base located on a tiny Caribbean island. Wear and tanning to dust jacket edges. Previous owners stamp to front free end page, otherwise very good. A scarce copy from a legendary forgotten novelist!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Bookseller Inventory #<\/strong> 23011<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8903\" title=\"hlhumes\" src=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/hlhumes-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"hlhumes\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/hlhumes-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/hlhumes.jpg 407w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"sold\">SOLD<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Men Die<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Humes, H.L. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Publisher:<\/strong> Random House<br \/>\n<strong>Publication Date:<\/strong> 1959<br \/>\n<strong>Binding: <\/strong>Hard Bound<br \/>\n<strong>Book Condition:<\/strong> Very Good<br \/>\n<strong>Dust Jacket Condition:<\/strong> Good<br \/>\n<strong>Edition: <\/strong>First Edition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Humes was a co-founder of The Paris Review in 1953, along with Peter Matthiessen and George Plimpton. He studied writing with Archibald MacLeish at Harvard, graduating in 1954. A Scientist, novelist, activist, inventor, filmmaker, architect, prophet, healer, madman, Harold &#8220;Doc&#8221; Humes was, by all accounts, an exhilarating, infuriating and terrifyingly brilliant man. He participated in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recently-sold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8901"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14973,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8901\/revisions\/14973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}