Does It Matter? 

Essays on Man's Relation to Materiality

by Alan Watts

New York: Pantheon Books, 1970

First Edition

First Printing (stated)

Hardcover. xvi + 125 pp. 5-7/8" x 8-1/2".

Very good in good, unclipped ($4.95) dust jacket.

Interior clean & unmarked. Front end paper has been neatly removed. Binding firm & square. Covers have sun-fading to bottom front corner of spine & at head of spine; mild softening to spine ends; light bump to top front corner; mild rubbing & sunning to spine. Dust jacket is chipped at bottom front corners & at top front edge near spine; small scrape & tear to rear panel; light wear at spine ends & corners; toning & soiling to rear panel & along flap edges; sunning to spine with a few small scuffs along spine edges. DJ comes protected by new, archival cover.

In the essays collected in Does It Matter?, Alan Watts addresses the "astonishing problems of man's relations to his material environment. The basic theme is that civilized man confuses symbol with reality, his ways of describing and measuring the world with the world itself, and thus puts himself into the absurd situation of preferring money to wealth and eating the menu instead of the dinner." [from the front flap]. Contains Watts' essay "Psychedelics and Religious Experience."

An attractive copy of the first edition. A nice addition to your collection or as a gift.

Ships well-packed in a box.