Collection: Drug and Psychedelic Literature

Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1972. First edition (presumed). 80pp; index. Green cloth boards; gilt spine titles; dust jacket. Ex-library: NYPL pocket to front endpaper. Dust jacket flaps pasted to boards; paper spine label. A clean ex-library copy of this monograph offering substantive and well-researched... More

NY: The Viking Press, 1975. First edition. xxviii, 257pp. Grey boards backed with black cloth; purple topstain. Inked notes to front flyleaf, four or five dog-eared corners. Very good or better in a like jacket, unclipped, with light wear at spine ends and tips, toning... More

London: Churchill Livingstone, 1975. X, 236pp; index. Blue papered boards; gilt spine titles; dust jacket. About fine in a very good jacket, moderately foxed to front panel. A scholarly work presenting the proceedings of the Third International Cannabis Conference organised by the Institute for the... More

NY: John Wiley & Sons, 1973. First edition. Xiii, 290pp; index. Blue vinyl boards; gilt spine titles; dust jacket. Light soiling to textblock top, mild musty odor. Jacket with wear and rubbing to edges, some chipping at head of spine. About very good in like... More

NY: Grove Press / Balance House, 1968. First edition. 190pp; index; b&w and color illus; plates. 4to; orange cloth stamped in green to front board; metallic purple spine titles; dust jacket. Spine slightly cocked. Else near fine in a very good, unclipped jacket with a... More

ETC. A Review of General Semantics, Vol. XXII, No. 4, December 1965. San Francisco: ETC, 1965. 12mo; signature-bound in printed wraps. Pp. 389-528. Wear to corners and hinges; moderate spine twist; one crease to spine. A good to very good copy of this important issue... More

Yusuke Suzuki, 2020. No. 199 of 420 copies signed by Suzuki to rear cover recto. Perfect-bound in white wraps, 5-1/8 x 7-3/8 in. [288]pp.; illus. A fine copy, as new. A photobook consisting almost entirely of full-bleed color images pertaining to the cultivation, consumption, and... More

"I am becoming a man who can turn on the Ecstatic Joy of psychedelic experiences whenever I want. And when you get right down to it, this Ecstatic Joy of life is the one, the only desirable goal, the one that all other goals are... More

 Berkeley, CA: Shambala Publications, 1970. Translated by Dinah Livingstone. Foreword by Nobel Prize-winner Miguel Ángel Asturias. First American edition (preceded by the 1969 UK edition, and the German-language edition of 1968).  4to. Glossy pictorial boards, as issued without jacket. 36pp.; illus. Sunning to front board,... More

NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976. First edition. 8vo. Yellow cloth; red spine titles; dust jacket. 105pp. Light soiling to boards around head of spine; mild shelfwear. Very good or better in a very good jacket, unclipped ("$7.95") with several small chips at spine ends,... 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

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

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

Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1970. First edition. Xv, 275pp., with index. Black cloth; gilt and green spine titles. A few minor bumps to textblock fore-edge, mild rubbing to spine lettering. Near fine in a very good, unclipped ("$9.00") jacket with light fading and rubbing... More

Whittier, CA: Spiraling Books, 1984. First edition. Signed by Call to title page. Perfect-bound in printed wraps, 6-7/8 x 4-5/8 in. 60pp. Mild rubbing to rear spine, else fine. Psychedelic memoirs in the form of affable, colorful, and instructive vignettes, by a one-time member of... More

NY: Herder and Herder, 1971. Translated by Ellen Fox, with a foreword by Edouard Roditi. First edition. Small 8vo; red cloth; gilt spine titles; dust jacket. xxii, 170pp. Light bleeding to board cloth from water exposure; tidemarks to textblock top and fore-edge; spotting to first... More

United States of America [stated]: BarNel Enterprises, 1967. Leaves gathered and side-stapled in yellow wraps, 4-1/8 x 5-3/8 in., printed front and rear in blue. 71pp. Light soiling and toning to covers; textblock mildly toned. Very good or better; a tidy copy of a publication... More