THE BLACK CANDLE - Canada's First Book on Drug Abuse by Murphy, Judge Emily F. (introduction by Robert Solomon) - 1973

Toronto: Coles Canadiana Collection - Coles Publishing, 1973. 405 pp. Trade paperback format. This was originally published in by Thomas Allen in Toronto in 1922. Edge and corner wear with an uncreased spine; store stamped. The Contents are: Introduction by Robert Solomon; Author's Preface; Pipe Dreams; The Traffic; The New Buccaneers; Opium; Snowbirds and Owls; Heroin Slavery; Passing on the Habit; Doctors and Magistrates; Soldiers and Drug Addiction; The Cure; The Black Candle; Traffic in the United States; Young Addicts; The Drug Traffic in Canada; Ways of the Traffickers; Trappers All; War on the Drug Ring; International Rings; Prisoners at the Bar; A Comparison and a Question; Black Smoke; Cocaine; Girls as Pedlars; The Hypodermic Needle; Prescriptions; The Immediate Withdrawal Cure; Opened Shutters; Prohibition and Drug Intoxication; Opium; Crime and Narcotics; Drug Bondage; The Living Death; Marahuana - a New Menace; Orders for Search; Spotter and Stooler; Drugs Generally; Salvage; Healing; Forecast of Victory; The Contest; and Apologia.. First Printing - First Thus. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.