Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience (1931 - 1963) 
 
Aldous Huxley. 
 
Stonehill: 1977. First printing. Hardcover in a jacket. Jacket is rather torn along the edges and and folds. There are no major missing pieces. Jacket also has tanning, trace foxing, and scratches. Boards have tanning along their edges. The textblock and back cover's endpaper spills over the back board because the spine is slightly cocked. Edges have some foxing. Text is clean. 314 pages. Both book and jacket are good. 
 
Through this collection we get to see how Huxley linked the psychedelic experience to the human condition in all its forms of expression: the political, the religious, the literary, the autobiographical, and more. His learning was vast and his insight profound. 
 
"The choice is always ours. Then, let me choose 
The longest art, the hard Promethean way 
Cherishingly to tend and feed and fan 
That inward fire, whose small precarious flame, 
Kinded or quenched, creates 
The noble or ignoble men we are, 
The worlds we live in and the very fates, 
Our bright or muddy star."