Heaven and Hell. by Huxley, Aldous - 1956

HarperCollins. Mass Market Paperback. VG. used mass market paperback edition. lightly shelfworn, corners perhaps slightly bumped. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.

Perennial / Harper & Row,, 1971.. 1st. Paperback. Collectable, very good. First printing of the Perennial mass market paperback edition, 1971. Slight wear, name on first page, upper page edges somewhat soiled, pages a little tanned due to age. ** We are a small family business selling fine new and preowned books online since 1999. We provide professional service and individual attention to your order, daily shipments, and sturdy packaging. FREE TRACKING ON ALL SHIPMENTS WITHIN USA.

New York: Garrett Publications, 1955. Soft cover. Very Good. First appearance of this essay, expanding on ideas introduced in The Doors of Perception. Tomorrow: Quarterly Review of Psychical Research 3:4, 7-35. This issue also includes contributions by A.E., Robert Amadou and others. Spine bumped and torn at head and heel, wrappers handled and lightly soiled, page edges tanned and lightly soiled, corners bumped.

HarperCollins, 1956. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

UsedAcceptable. 1971. Cover different than Amazon stock photo. Reading copy only, has significant to heavy reading/age wear and tear, may have some staining or water damage, pages may be tanned or fragile, may have loose hinges, may have light to heavy markings, not collector/gift quality. We take great pride in accurately describing the condition of our books and media, ship within 48 hours, and offer a 100% money back guarantee. Customers purchasing more than one item from us may be entitled to a shipping discount.

HarperCollins, 1956. Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Tight, square, uncreased spine. Former owner name to the title page, but interior is else remarked. There are areas of foxing, toning and cosmetic damp-staining to the interior. Some areas of light soiling and minor shelf-wear to the covers. 'Like heaven,' writes Huxley in this follow-up to The Doors of Perception, 'the visionary hell has its preternatural light and its preternatural significance. But the significance is intrinsically appalling and the light is "the smoky light" of the Tibetan Book of the Dead, the "darkness visible" of Milton.' Another lovely Margo Herr cover to this hard-to-find edition, featuring an O'Keefe-esque watercolor whose fearful symmetry is offset by the two differently weighted nouns of the title, set in a drop-shadowed and outlined 19th-century gothic display face that reflects the formality of the image. Herr, who was art director at Harper & Row, designed equally oneiric covers for studies of Blake, Rimbaud, and Cocteau, as well as esoteric fantasy novels by Roger… Read More

New York: Harper, 1956. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Quite a nice copy with owner name and date, and the jacket spine is toned.

From the d.j.: "Heaven and Hell" is a companion volume to Mr. Huxley's challenging book "The Doors of Perception", and it will be read and argued about with no less eagerness than its predecessor. Mr. Huxley is concerned here with "the supreme truth that perception...can be the same as Revelation". Visionary power, attained once by fasting and mortification, can be achieved today through certain drugs, through hypnosis, or the stroboscopic lamp. The experimenter finds himself in an unexplored New World of the mind, the Antipodes of his normal conscious living, whose properties have a heightened significance, a pure intrinsic value. This world can have the characteristics of the Paradise or the Fairyland of religion and folk-lore; but negative emotions--fear, hatred, anger or malice--will turn this heaven into a hell." In addition to the main essay, there are 8 fascinating appendices.

NY: Harper & Brothers, [1956].. Hardbound in dust jacket. First American edition. The sequel to Huxley's landmark work, The Doors of Perception. Here he compares psychedelics to other forms of visionary experience. Fine in slightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket with a barely perceptible stain to back panel. Among the most important works on psychedelic drugs.