HUXLEY, Aldous. The Doors of Perception. London: Chatto and Winds. 1954. Thin 8vo. First edition, first impression. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by John Woodcock. The cloth slightly marked at corners, slight discolouration to backstrip foot. The binding tight and square, offsetting to endpapers with various newspaper clippings loosely inserted, the text fine. The dust jacket unclipped (6s net), several small chips and nicks around the corners and spine tips, the spine foot creased with a little grubbiness all-round, the rear flap with quite substantial loss to lower portion, but an about very good copy overall.
The author’s famous essay retelling his guinea pig experience with mescaline, which he described ‘a sacramental vision of reality’. Huxley believed and indeed hoped to see Blakean visions when taking the psychedelics, whose work provides the title, but instead experienced the Dharma-body, told diligently and thoughtfully. Perhaps the first major study of its kind by such a well-respected literary figure, highly readable and indeed cultish today.
HUXLEY, Aldous. The Doors of Perception. London: Chatto and Winds. 1954. Thin 8vo. First edition, first impression. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by John Woodcock. The cloth slightly marked at corners, slight discolouration to backstrip foot. The binding tight and square, offsetting to endpapers with various newspaper clippings loosely inserted, the text fine. The dust jacket unclipped (6s net), several small chips and nicks around the corners and spine tips, the spine foot creased with a little grubbiness all-round, the rear flap with quite substantial loss to lower portion, but an about very good copy overall.
The author’s famous essay retelling his guinea pig experience with mescaline, which he described ‘a sacramental vision of reality’. Huxley believed and indeed hoped to see Blakean visions when taking the psychedelics, whose work provides the title, but instead experienced the Dharma-body, told diligently and thoughtfully. Perhaps the first major study of its kind by such a well-respected literary figure, highly readable and indeed cultish today.
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