Heaven and Hell
Huxley, Aldous. Heaven and Hell. Harper & Row, 1971 (1st Perennial Ed.). Softbound. '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 Zelazny and Jack Dann.
