Collection: Drug and Psychedelic Literature

First edition of the Czech psychiatrist's magnum opus, detailing eighteen years of research on the psychological and therapeutic effects of LSD, "probably the most important and certainly the most intellectually original single book on psychedelic experience" (Grinspoon & Bakalar, Psychedelic Drugs Reconsidered, p. 349). NY:... More

First edition of the Czech psychiatrist's third book on LSD, an attempt to "explain the various phenomena encountered in psychedelic experience." Pomona, CA: Hunter House, 1980. 352pp., with index and color plates. 8vo. Blue vinyl stamped in silver on front board and spine; dust jacket.... More

First British edition of the Czech psychiatrist's magnum opus, detailing eighteen years of research on the psychological and therapeutic effects of LSD; "probably the most important and certainly the most intellectually original single book on psychedelic experience" (Grinspoon & Bakalar, Psychedelic Drugs Reconsidered, p. 349).... More

Palo Alto, CA: Science and Behavior Books, 1971. First edition. 8vo; green cloth; black spine titles; dust jacket. xvii, 333pp., with index. Light scattered foxing to textblock top, else near fine in a very good jacket, unclipped ("$7.95"), with shallow chipping at head of spine.Front... More

Coconut Grove, FL: Up Front, Inc., 1978-1982. Edited by Caroline J. Ciancutti, et al. 20 vols. Variously paginated; most 12-16pp. Saddle-stapled in wraps, 11 x 8-3/8 in. All issues with three-hole binding punches on left side; some holes splitting and/or sticker-repaired. Three issues disbound (two... More

Tucson, AZ: Apocrypha Books, 1972. A reprint of unclear priority: title page states "third printing," while rear cover states "enlarged second edition." [200]pp. 4to, perfect-bound in red pictorial wraps. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. Light rubbing to covers and spine ends. Else near fine, clean and snugly... More

NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1964. First edition. 8vo, brown boards blind-stamped to front and backed with maroon cloth; gilt spine titles; dust jacket. Moderate foxing to to textblock top and endpapers. Unclipped ("$5.95") jacket with foxing to flaps and interior, light fading to spine.... More

Spring Valley, CA: Salt & Pepper Syndicate, 1976. 8vo, saddle-stapled in blue pictorial wraps. 31pp. Oxidation to staples; "$3.00" price sticker to front cover; else fine. Final leaf with a Lawrence, KS address slip mounted over the original Spring Valley distribution address.A guide containing "complete... More

Los Angeles: Wilshire Book Company, 1969. Reprint (possible fourth printing?) of a title first published in 1963. 8vo, perfect-bound in pictorial wraps. 172pp., with bibliography and index.Soft diagonal crease to front cover. Moderate corner and hinge wear. Mild soiling to textblock edges and half-title. Very... More

Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, 1967. Reprint: "Revised July 1967" stated on second leaf, with acknowledgement of a 1966 printing in the letter from sheriff Peter J. Pitchess that opens the volume. Side-stapled with blue card cover printed in black, 11 x 8-1/2... More

San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1963. Translated by Louise Varèse. First edition. 8vo, signature-bound in wraps printed red and black. 89pp, with six black-and-white plates of drawings by the author. Wraps moderately toned, heaviest at perimeters and to spine. One spine crease; binding strained but... More

NY: The Orion Press, 1963. Translated by Haakon Chevalier. 8vo, gray cloth stamped in white and yellow on front board and spine; black topstain; dust jacket. 230pp. Light sunning and soiling to boards; offsetting to endpapers; light spotting/soiling to fore-edge; mild musty odor. Jacket, price-clipped,... More

NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1966. Second printing, in same year as first. 8vo; white cloth with orange and purple rectangular motif on front board; orange, purple, and black spine titles; dust jacket. 326pp. Soiling and light foxing to board edges. Moderate soiling to textblock... More

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1966. First edition. Small 8vo; orange cloth; white spine titles; dust jacket. xviii, 108pp., with index. A touch of wear at base of spine; mild offsetting to endpapers; former owner's name penned on ffep. Nearly fine in a very... More

NY: Dell Publishing Company, [1951]. Saddle-stapled in pictorial wraps, 6-3/8 x 4-1/4 in. [64]pp. Horizontal creasing up the spine; light edge wear; textblock moderately toned. Very good or better.First stand-alone edition of a pseudonymous story by Cornell Woolrich, originally appearing in Detective Fiction Weekly in... More

"If my supervisors find out that I have written this book, they will probably decide to fire me. I have to accept this prospect. I can no longer sit still while the absurd witch hunt against drugs goes on all around me."Portland, OR: Dawn Human,... More

NY: E.P. Dutton, 1977. First edition. 8vo; blue boards backed with gray cloth; black spine titles; dust jacket. xiii, 240pp., with index. Board edges lightly sunned; mild bump to bottom front corner. About near fine in a like jacket, price-clipped, with a short closed tear... More

Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1990. First edition. 8vo; blue textured-paper boards; gilt spine titles; dust jacket. ix, 274pp., with bibliography. Bumping to base of spine and bottom tips; board just showing through at fore-edge of front corner. Else very good in a very good... More

NY: Praeger Publishers, 1972. First edition. 8vo; brown cloth; gilt spine titles; dust jacket. xvi, 304pp., with index. Moderate toning to textblock edges (esp. the deckled fore-edge). Bottom tips lightly worn, board just showing through at rear. Very good or better in a very good,... More

Los Angeles: University of California Latin American Center, [1969]. 4to; saddle-stapled in printed wraps. pp. 16-25. Color lithographs throughout. Very good or better, with toning to wraps.Offprint of an article by cultural anthropologist Peter T. Furst (1922-2015) on the "yarn paintings" of Huichol Indian artist... More

San Francisco: The Central City Target Area Action Board of Directors, 1967. Saddle-stapled in photo-illustrated wraps with text printed blue, 10 x 8 in. pp. [2], 44, [8]; illus. Soft crease to top leading corner. Mild edge wear. Complete but with four leaves bound upside... More

Berkeley, CA: Explorations Publishing Co, 1965. 8vo; saddle-stapled in printed wraps. 32pp. Light toning to wraps; mild wear to corners and spine; very good or better.Second issue of this apparently short-lived journal exploring "frontiers of humanistic psychology, philosophy and religion." This issue dedicated to the... More

Scholarly work exploring the kinship between visionary literature and the psychedelic experience. Per front jacket flap: "Drawing extensively on the works of Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, and many other poets, and quoting from reports of psychedelic and esthetic experiences in Huxley, Alpert, Leary, medical journals, Eastern... More

Psychedelic memoirs in the form of affable, colorful, and instructive vignettes, by a one-time member of Art Kleps' Neo-American Church, now involved with (and perhaps founder of) The Institute for the Advancement of Psychedelic Christianity. Whittier, CA: Spiraling Books, 1984. First edition. Signed by Call... More

Mystery novel qua hippie exploitation, about the search for a missing girl in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district. NY: Caravelle Books, 1967. Presumed first edition. Mass-market paperback, perfect-bound in printed pictorial wraps. 190pp. Soft crease to bottom corner of front cover, one lateral crease to spine.... More