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WHAT WE HAD: A Memoir.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Summit Books, (1990.) dj. Hardcover first edition - More than just a memoir of the author's own life, this is the story, told in brief glimpses, of his family, frozen in time in the jazz age, while in 1931 in Fall River, Massachusetts, the mills were closing - and of the impact of Pearl Harbor, his own experiences as a student at Harvard where he agreed to be injected with mind-altering drugs as part of an experiment at a famous hospital, a brief and funny stint as a CIA agent. ISBN: 0-671-694782.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.
Book ID: 31429More details Price: $18.00 -
HALLUCINOGENS AND CULTURE.
Edition: 3rd printing, a trade paperback.
Novato, CA: Chandler & Sharp Publishers, (1997 c 1976). An introduction by this cultural anthropologist to many of the hallucinogenic drugs - from tobacco to LSD to peyote and sacred mushrooms and many others - placing them in their cultural and historical context, with an emphasis on their role in religion, ritual and healing. Illustrated. A title in the Chandler & Sharp Series in Cross-Cultural Themes. Literature cited, index. xii, 194 pp. ISBN: 0-883165171.
Condition: Very good in wrappers, some rubbing and wear to the covers, contents clean.
Book ID: 80175More details Price: $21.50 -
PASSPORT FOR A PILGRIM.
Edition: First printing.
London: Heinemann, (1968) dj. Hardcover first edition - The fourth espionage novel by this prolific writer featuring Dr. Jason Love, a GP in a Somerset, England, who somehow is always found by trouble. In this book, as he is about to leave to attend a medical conference in Damascus in Syria, he is asked by one of his patients to check on the grave of his daughter who had recently died there in an automobile accident. This simple favor leads him into danger in the desert as he gets involved in foiling an attempt to create a system of mind control. Leasor and Love share many things - including owing a vintage Cord automobile and serving in Burma during World War II. 208 pp. ISBN: 0-434410136.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (light edgewear to the dj)
Book ID: 84275More details Price: $30.00 -
THE DRUG SCENE
Edition: First printing.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968. dj. Hardcover first edition - Discusses the negative effects of drugs -both physical and social. Glossary, bibliography. 214 pp.
Condition: Good in Very Good dust jacket (boards slightly bent, creases to dj flaps.)
Book ID: 24883More details Price: $20.00 -
NO SIMPLE HIGHWAY: A Cultural History of the Grateful Dead.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: St Martin's, (2015). First edition - Published on the band's 50th anniversary, this book attempts to answer the question of why the Grateful Dead became one of the world's most legendary bands. Notes, sources. 353 pp.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 64185More details Price: $24.50 -
ESSENTIAL SUBSTANCES: A Cultural History of Intoxicants in Society
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York and Tokyo: Kodansha International, (1994.). First edition - Originally published in the UK under the title 'The Alchemy of Culture' this is a look at the uses and abuses of mind-altering drugs through history, from opium in the stone age to crack on our city streets. Includes a look at the traditional mind-altering substances - like magic mushrooms in Siberia, tobacco and peyote in the Americas, qat in Africa, and betel in Southeast Asia - to the psychoactive plants of medieval witchcraft, hallucinogens like LSD and marijuana, and stimulants like coffee, tea, and cocoa, and why some are considered culturally acceptable, others are forbidden. Foreword by William Emboden Illustrated with line drawings, notes, bibliography index .ix,195. 36 t
Condition: Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 38400More details Price: $18.00 -
NOTES ON THE PRESENT STATUS OF OLOLIUHQUI AND OTHER HALLUCINOGENS OF MEXICO.
Edition: First printing.
Condition: Fine in stapled self-wrappers.
Book ID: 80280More details Price: $75.00