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LOT 4003
2nd April 2025
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LOT 4003
HUXLEY, Aldous. The Doors of Perception. London: Chatto & Windus, 1954. First edition, first impression, 8vo (187 x 119mm.) (Offsetting to front-free endpaper.) Original blue cloth, dust-jacket designed by John Woodcock (offsetting to inner flap). Note: the first edition was published simultaneously in America and England. ‘One bright May morning’, Huxley wrote, ‘I swallowed four-tenths of a gram of mescaline dissolved in half a glass of water and sat down to wait for the results’.
Estimate: £300 – £500
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