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Aldous Huxley. THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION.. Chatto&Windus, London, 1954.
Price: US$49.33 + shipping
Description: First edition, Third Impression, september 1954. Un volume (19 cm) di 63 pagine. Legatura editoriale in tela blu con titolo dorato al dorso; due macchie bianche al piatto anteriore; no dust jacket. Ottime condizioni interne.
Seller: Libreria BACBUC - Studio bibliografico, Roma, RM, Italy
Huxley, Aldous. The Doors Of Perception. Chatto and Windus Ltd, 1954.
Price: US$140.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Gift inscription written by the previous owner. 3rd edition, September 1954. The dust jacket is a little shelf rubbed, chipped pieces and small closed tears along the edges. The boards are a little shelf rubbed, remain in good condition. Internally the pages are clean and complete. The text is legible. Tightly bound and presented in cellophane. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Aldous Huxley. The Doors Of Perception. Chatto & Windus, 1954.
Price: US$177.42 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1954. 3rd Impression. 63 pages. Pictorial dust jacket by John Woodcock over blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. Jacket states Third Impression to front flap. Binding remains firm. Liquid staining to margin of copyright page, and more pronounced on p10 and pp14-15, but text remains clearly legible. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Spine is in good condition. Book has a moderate forward lean. Boards very slightly bowed. Gilt is bright. Clipped third impression jacket has some edgewear. Approx 1 inch square of loss to upper edge of front panel. Moderate tears, chips, and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges. Slight liquid stain to front panel.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Huxley, Aldous. The Doors of Perception. Chatto & Windus, London, 1954.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: pp. 62. 12mo. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Boards quite spotted: does not extend past the cloth, and the book has no odour, so while it looks like damage from moisture exposure, the usual attendant issues are absent. Text is clean and unmarked, binding sound. Dustjacket shows some corresponding spots, chiefly to verso, as well as a few small chips at edges, and a cup ring and two tape repairs to rear panel. Not clipped. Huxley's famous essay about his experience with psychedelics and the implications extrapolated therefrom.
Seller: BISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Aldous Huxley. The Doors of Perception. Chatto & Windus, 1954.
Price: US$320.22 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, FOURTH impression (1956). Near Fine: tight and square binding in sharp blue cloth; a little browning to the top and fore edges of the boards; bright gilt and clean, unfaded cloth; solitary spot to the bottom-edge of the page block; the usual offsetting to the endpapers, else crisp and clean throughout. The unclipped dustwrapper is about Near Fine: bright and vibrant; toning to the top-edge, folds and spine; lightly rubbed to the spine tips and corners; presented in a removable, archival-quality Brodart protective cover. An attractive copy. All orders are sent carefully wrapped in bubble wrap and sturdy cardboard.
Seller: Bradhurst Fine Editions, Framlingham, United Kingdom
Huxley, Aldous. The Doors of Perception (UK HB 1st in DJ). Chatto & Windus, 1954.
Price: US$320.22 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: UK hardback first impression. Good with some spotting to page edges and a small white mark to cloth at top edge of front panel. The jacket is Good overall, unclipped with a price reduction marked in pencil to flap. There is some grubbiness and small nicks and chips to edges, and a little loss at spine ends.
Seller: Hunter Books, Burnham, BUCKS, United Kingdom
Aldous Huxley. The Doors of Perception. Chatto and Windus, London, 1954, 1954.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good in a Good Plus jacket. 1st Printing. A nice copy with a tiny indent on the top edge of the front board and some offsetting to front and rear pastedowns. The jacket is complete with 6s. price on the bottom front flap, Short closed tear at top front and small chip at top spine.
Seller: Jackson Street Booksellers, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.
Huxley, Aldous. The Doors of Perception. Chatto & Windus, London, 1954.
Price: US$377.85 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hard cover in very good condition for its age, with DJ in good condition. Previous owner has penned FEP. General shelf and handling wear, including light chipping, creasing and wear to DJ cover, edges, corners and folds. Tanning and age-related discolouration present. Several small closed tears noted. Boards are very clean, with tanning to pageblock, endpapers, and, lightly, to pages edge. Within, leaves are tightly bound, and content is unmarked. CN
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
Aldous Huxley. The Doors of Perception plus Heaven and Hell First Editions. Chatto and Windus, 1954.
Price: US$569.98 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The Doors of Perception, plus the sequel Heaven & Hell. First UK editions, first impressions, published Chatto & Windus in 1954 and 1956. 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. Heaven and Hell expands on these themes to include meditation, spirituality, and other methods of expanding human perception. The titles for both books were inspired by William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, the book containing the quote "If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing will appear to man as it is, infinite." Condition The Doors of Perception. Unclipped dustjacket, price of 6s has some faint pencil or wax pencil marks through it, spine ends and corners chipped, with some loss to the bottom of the spine, a closed tear to the rear flap at the bottom edge, a couple of other very small closed tears, jacket now in a tidy clear removable protective wrapper. Smart blue cloth covers, secure binding, spotting to the edge of the text block, sinking a little into the pages, and rarely into the text, endpapers with a little tanning, the rear endpapers have a tea stain, no other pages are affected. Slightly less than good condition. Heaven & Hell. Jacket unclipped, wear, chipping and small tears to the extremities, fading to the spine, tanned, now in a removable protective wrapper. Pink cloth covers, a little wear to the edges, securely bound, endpapers with a few marks and tanning, the half title and last printed page have partial tanning, pages age toned. Fair jacket, good book.
Seller: Bushido Books, Guildford, United Kingdom
Huxley, Aldous. The Doors Of Perception. Chatto & Windus, 1954.
Price: US$576.39 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1954 Chatto & Windus Hardback 1st Edition 1st Impression. Very good+ clean tight binding in very good unclipped dustjacket. DJ has had some repairs over its lifetime .
Seller: MacKellar Art & Books, Bournemouth, United Kingdom
Aldous Huxley. The Doors of Perception. Chatto and Windus, UK, 1954.
Price: US$576.39 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition 1954. Book is very good++ and bright. Contents good. The wrapper is very good+ and bright. Light edge rubbing. Minuscule rubbing loss to spine tip. Spine age toned. Quite a nice example. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18653
Seller: Lasting Words Ltd, Northampton, UK, United Kingdom
HUXLEY, Aldous. The Doors of Perception. Chatto & Windus, 1954, 1954.
Price: US$576.39 + shipping
Description: 1st edition. Hardcover. Very near fine blue boards with gilt spine lettering, slight offset strips on endpapers, pages very clean, no foxing or marks at all. In the near fine original dustjacket, not price-clipped, a little nibbling to a corner and to spine ends, slight flap edge browning. Overall, a nice copy of Huxley's famous essay on his experiences of taking the Mexican Indian drug mescalin. 'A little masterpiece - concise, evocative, wise and,above all, humane' (J.Z.Young); 'Mr Huxley's experiment is extraordinary, and is beautifully observed'(Edwin Muir).
Seller: Shellhouse Books, Quinton, Northants, United Kingdom
Huxley, Aldous. The Doors of Perception. Chatto & Windus, 1954.
Price: US$960.65 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 1954 Chatto & Windus Hardback 1st Edition 1st Impression. Near fine clean tight copy. This is a special one off binding, hand painted in acrylic on canvas, with decorative endpapers. A modern artistic binding specially designed for this book.
Seller: MacKellar Art & Books, Bournemouth, United Kingdom
Huxley, Aldous. The Doors of Perception. Chatto & Windus, 1954.
Price: US$1274.46 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1954 Chatto & Windus Hardback 1st Edition 1st Impression. Fine clean tight binding. A modern artistic binding specially designed for this book. Coloured leather depicting 'the doors' with decorative endpapers. A beautiful copy for a collector.
Seller: MacKellar Art & Books, Bournemouth, United Kingdom
Huxley, Aldous. The Doors of Perception. Chatto & Windus, London, 1954.
Price: US$1800.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first printing. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. 63, [1] pp. Near Fine with moderate foxing to top edge, slight edge wear, bookseller ticket to front paste down, slight offsetting from flaps to endpapers. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with trace fading to spine, light toning to rear panel. The Brave New World author's account of his mescaline experiences, a foundational document of the psychedelic movement that inspired the name of the famous '60s band The Doors.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Huxley, Aldous. The Doors of Perception [Signed]. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1954.
Price: US$1985.08 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST EDITION with SIGNED page laid in. The single sheet is SIGNED in full in black ink by author Aldous Huxley. The otherwise-blank sheet measures 18.5 x 12cm, almost the same size as the pages of the book, & appears to be very similar paper to the endpapers - possibly either tipped-in at some point or removed from another volume. FIRST EDITION, stated on copyright page. Additionally, the printed letters "M-C" appear below the First Edition statement, indicating the month & year of printing (December 1953). The first US edition (Harper & Brothers) was published simultaneously with the first UK edition (Chatto & Windus), both 1954. Huxley's well-known classic work, an account of his use of mescaline, which has been described as "the most influential single work on the use of psychedelic drugs". This mid-1950s work sparked a generation of drug experimentation. The Doors famously took their band name from the title. From inner flaps of dustjacket (in full): "'One bright May morning', writes Mr Huxley, 'I swallowed four-tenths of a gram of mescalin dissolved in half a glass of water and sat down to wait for the results'. One of the results was this most unusual and compelling book. Mescalin is the active principle of peyote - the desert cactus long used by the Indians of Mexico and the Southwest in their religious rites. Though harmless, at any rate for persons in good health, the drug produces profound alterations of consciousness. In Blake's phrase, it 'cleanses the doors of perception', so that the world is transfigured and takes on a beauty, a significance, a quality of infiniteness, undreamed of at ordinary times. Mr. Huxley describes these cleansed perceptions and discusses, as he goes along, a number of the problems in philosophy, in art, in religious experience, on which they throw a new and revealing light. Whether the reader agrees with Mr. Huxley's conclusions or not, The Doors of Perception remains a unique glimpse into the mind of one of the greatest living writers, and a challenging discussion of the human personality". Set in Linotype Times Roman. Format by Robert Cheney. Manufactured by The Haddon Craftsmen. Printed in the USA. Bound in publisher's original light blue cloth backed by black cloth spine with bright silver lettering. NO DUSTJACKET (Lacking both front & rear panels). The only remnants of the original dustjacket are the two INNER FLAPS, both of which are laid in (with original first edition published price of $1.50 intact). Mild bump to top edge of front board, very slight shelfwear, otherwise a nice clean tight solid hardcover copy. 79pp. Scarce SIGNED copy of the uncommon first edition of this cult classic. RARE.
Seller: Bookwood, Melbourne, VIC, Australia