The Devils of Loudun [movie tie-in edition]

New York: Perennial Library / Harper & Row. Very Good+. 1971. First Edition Thus. Softcover. [nice tight copy with mild edgewear to covers, a touch of age-browning to front cover]. Mass Market PB (B&W photographs) A reprint of Huxley's account (originally published in 1952) of "demonic possession and witchcraft in a seventeenth-century French convent." It's "the story of one of the strangest occurrences in history -- that of Father Grandier, a priest of Loudun in the era of Cardinal Richelieu, who is accused of being responsible for mass hysteria in a convent whose nuns believed themselves possessed of devils." This somewhat uncommon edition was a tie-in with the fantastically over-the-top 1971 film adaptation, simply called THE DEVILS, written and directed by Ken Russell and starring Oliver Reed (as the not-at-all-good Father) and Vanessa Redgrave (as the super-sexually-repressed nun who incites the accusations). There is an 8-page photo insert featuring scenes from the film. .