The States of Human Consciousness

New York: University Books, (1963).

Price: $45.00

Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. Ownership stamp and signature of noted American psychologist and anthropologist Henry Guze, (a founder of the American Academy of Psychotherapists, the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, and co-founder of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex) on the front fly and another tiny owner's name, tape shadows on the pastedown, else near fine in near fine dustwrapper. A nice copy of this psychology study, co-author C. Daly King was a psychologist who was also authored several highly collected mystery novels about a group of psychologists, "The Obelists," who travel around solving crimes.

Item #460710
ISBN: 0486235408

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Item #460710 The States of Human Consciousness. C. Daly KING.

C. Daly King
birth name: Charles Daly King

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Born 1895, Died 1963. According to Edward Hoch, C. Daly King (1885-1963) was, with G.K. Chesterton and Carter Dickson, one of the masters of the "locked room" mystery. King's stories were heralded by Ellery Queen as "the most imaginative detective stories of our times." Published primarily in the 1930s, they star gentleman detective Trevis Tarrant and his manservant, who doubles as a Japanese spy. Readers who love the puzzle mysteries of the 30s, especially those with an Edgar Allan Poe sense of claustrophobia, should flock to these 12 stories crowded with locked rooms and hairy situations--including a locked chamber within New York's Metropolitan Museum; a house that is haunted, though new; and a Hollywood star who disappears from a locked suite in a house ringed round with detectives. (Booklist, September 15, 2003)more