Let your mind alone!; And other more or less inspirational pieces

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1937. First edition (stated). Hardcover. Extremely mild wear to spine head and foot, faint spotting and sunning spine, exceedingly mild bumping to rear corners, extremely gentle rubbing to top corners, light soiling and spotting to boards, ink ownership signature to front free endpaper, faint spotting to fore-edges, else Very Good(-).. Brown octavo, orange spine, x, 245 pages, b&w illustrations ; 22 cm. Green publisher sticker to rear pastedown. Bird reading a book. Persons drawings to endpapers. || Contents: Pythagoras and the ladder -- Destructive forces in life -- The case for the daydreamer -- A dozen disciplines -- How to adjust yourself to your work -- Anodynes for anxieties -- The conscious vs. the unconscious -- Sex ex machina -- Sample intelligence test -- Miscellaneous mentation -- The breaking up of the Winships -- My memories of D.H. Lawrence -- The case against women -- No standing room only -- Nine needles -- A couple of hamburgers -- The case of the laughing butler -- Bateman comes home -- Footnotes on a course of study -- Remembrance of things past -- Something about Polk -- Aisle seats in the mind -- Suli Suli -- An outline of scientists -- Highball flags -- Mrs. Phelps -- Guns and game calls -- The hiding generation -- Wild Bird Hickok and his friends -- Doc Marlowe -- Food fun for the menfolk -- Goodbye, Mr. O. Charles Meyer! -- What are the leftists saying? -- How to write an autobiography -- After the steppe cat, what? -- Women go on forever -- The wood duck -- The admiral on the wheel. American wit and humor.