B40 BATTLE FOR THE MIND [1957]

WILLIAM SARGANT | [star] | Battle for the Mind | A PHYSIOLOGY OF CONVERSION | AND BRAIN-WASHING | [publisher’s emblem] | HEINEMANN | MELBOURNE LONDON TORONTO

Collation: [A]8 B–R8, 136 leaves.

p.[i] Battle for the Mind | A PHYSIOLOGY OF CONVERSION ; AND BRAINWASHING; p.[ii] blank; [frontispiece, back blank]; p. [iii] title-page; p.[iv] publisher’s, publication and printer’s notices; p.[v] Contents; p.[vi] blank; pp.vii–viii List of Illustrations; p.[ixl Acknowledgements; p.[x] epigraph (20 ll.) from George Salmon; pp.xi–xii [xiii] Foreword; p. [xiv] blank; pp.xv–xxiv Introduction; pp.1–236 text; pp. 237-240 Bibliography; pp.24l–248 Index; illustrations in two gatherings, sewn between I and K.

21.4 × 13.8 cm. Bulk: 2.3/3.0 cm. White laid paper; all edges trimmed. White wove endpapers. Bound in salt-and-pepper cloth; front blank; back stamped in lower right with a maroon publisher’s emblem; spine stamped with a solid maroon rectangular box at top printed in silver: Battle | for the | Mind | [star] | WILLIAM | SARGANT; solid maroon rectangular box at bottom printed in silver: HEINEMANN

Price: 25s. Number of copies undetermined. Published 15 April 1957 in white dust-jacket printed in red and black. There were two further impressions in 1957 and one in1959.

Notes: Graves’s contribution is Chapter 8, ‘Brain-Washing in Ancient Times’ (pp. 166-176). In the Foreword to the book, Graves is acknowledged for his considerable efforts in editing the book.

An American edition of B40 was published by Doubleday and Company, Inc., Garden City, New York; issued in a white dust-jacket printed black, yellow and orange, priced $4.50.

Five hundred advance copies of the American edition were issued in a dust-jacket in which the front panel is a typed letter individually addressed to each recipient and individually signed by Ken McCormick, Editor-in-Chief. The letters are dated 14 March 1957, preceding publication of both the English edition on 15 April 1957 and the American on 23 May 1957.

There is a book club issue with the Doubleday imprint, but without the “First Edition” notice on p. [6]; two blank leaves precede p. [1]; issued in a jacket without a printed price.

A revised paperback edition was published by Pan Books, London in 1959. Issued as Pan Books G225, there were seven impressions up to 1970, covers vary.

Harper & Row, New York, published an edition in 1959.

Penguin Books, Baltimore, Maryland issued a paperback impression in 1961.

In 1975 Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut published a photographic reprint of the American edition.