The Doors of Perception. London: Chatto & Windus, 1954. First Edition. Pale blue cloth boards in publisher’s pictorial dust jacket. Light fading to boards, jacket chipped at head of spine with loss.

Two thought provoking essays by Huxley focusing on states of consciousness.

The Doors of Perception explores the use of psychedelics, discussing his own experiments with mescaline and its effects on sensory perception, ego dissolution and greater appreciation of beauty and art.