The Drug Experience
by Ebin, David (ed)
- Used
- first
- Condition
- very good+: mild toning to endpapers, mild age/shelf wear to boards and spine, text clean, binding tight./good: mild edge wear, clipped.
- Seller
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Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
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About This Item
New York: Orion Press, 1961. first edition. hardcover. very good+: mild toning to endpapers, mild age/shelf wear to boards and spine, text clean, binding tight./good: mild edge wear, clipped.. 8vo 385pp. stated first printing. from front flap: "Here, for the first time in one volume, a collection of drug dreams, raptures and ravings, experiments and excesses--voyages "out of this world" charted by Hashish, Heroin, Morphine, Opium, Mescaline, Peyote, LSD and many other drugs. Almost forty accounts in the first person--some as classical as Baudelaire, De Quincey, and Havelock Ellis; others as contemporary as Alexander King, Mezz Mezzrow and Jean Cocteau---record the transfiguring or shattering experiences of those who dared to alter their consciousness, to reorder their perceptions through drugs." #01152.
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- Bookseller
- Matthew's Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1077
- Title
- The Drug Experience
- Author
- Ebin, David (ed)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - very good+: mild toning to endpapers, mild age/shelf wear to boards and spine, text clean, binding tight.
- Jacket Condition
- good: mild edge wear, clipped.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition
- Publisher
- Orion Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1961
- Keywords
- drugs, essays, nonfiction, first edition
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Matthew's Books LLC
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About Matthew's Books LLC
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