The Doors of Perception

by Aldous Huxley

£150 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

London: Chatto and Windus, 1954. Literature FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo 19 x 13cm , pp.63 1 . Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Internally crisp and clean, with toning to spine and board edges. Near fine. Huxley's distress at what he regarded as the spiritual bankruptcy of the modern world led him towards mysticism and the use of hallucinatory drugs. This exploratory essay in which he describes the use of mescaline to induce

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