Huxley, Aldous — The Doors of Perception

London Chatto & Windus Fifth Impression pp. [1-4], 5-62, [1]. Slim small octavo (5.25' X 7.5"). Publisher's light-blue cloth over boards with gilt rules and lettering to the spine. Light bumps to spine ends, neat ink name to upper-right margin of the ffep, else, without blemish. A lovely copy, housed in its strikingly-illustrated dustjacket, price-clipped with some negligible wear along edges (now housed in protective mylar sleeve). Very good+. ¶ 'I was seeing what Adam has seen on the morning of his creation - the miracle, moment by moment, of naked existence.' This fascinating essay describes how Mr. Huxley submitted himself as a 'guinea-pig' to mescalin, the active principle of a drug, peyotl, long know to the Mexican Indians.