Collection: Drug and Psychedelic Literature

A small grouping of materials comprising most of the published output of John W. Aiken, founder with his wife Louisa of The Church of the Awakening. The Aikens hold an interesting if largely overlooked place in the early history of the psychedelics movement. After the... More

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1938. With a foreword by E. M. K. Geiling, and a chapter by Frank R. Gomila and M. C. Gomila Lambou. First edition. Octavo. Ix, 223pp.; eight leaves of glossy photo illustrations; bibliography; indexes. Black cloth boards, silver spine lettering; lacking... More

Berlin: VWB – Verlag für Wissenschaft und Bildung, 1994. First edition. Signed and inscribed by Stolaroff to a former owner on ffep. Forword [sic] by Alexander T. Shulgin and Ann Shulgin. Small quarto. 192pp. Light yellow papered boards with purple color gradient on front panel,... More

Oakland: Bench Press, 1977. First edition thus; originally published in newsprint tabloid format in 1975. 355pp. Octavo; light blue cloth stamped in silver on front board and spine; lacking a jacket, presumably as issued. A touch of wear/whitening at board corners, else very fine; a... More

NY: Cowles Book Company, 1969. First edition. Octavo, 8.5 x 5.75 in.; xxii, 278pp., with glossary at front and index at rear. With an afterword by Stanley Krippner. Black cloth boards, yellow spine lettering; in dust jacket. Mild dust soiling to top of the lightly... More

NY: Sexology, 1967. Perfect-bound digest in orange and purple printed wraps, 7.5 x 5.25 in. 142pp. A very good (+) copy, showing mild wear and soiling to wraps, some softening at corners. Single issue of this long-running magazine about human sexuality, notable for the inclusion... More

"In a universe where everything is holy nothing is sacred." San Francisco: Chthon Press, 1969. Saddle-stapled cardstock wraps printed in blue, yellow, and green, 11.25 x 8.5 in. 20pp. Contents printed variously in brown, pink, purple, and green. Scattered soiling to covers, the interiors of... More

Buffalo, NY: Market Arcade, 1968. First edition (presumed). Perfect-bound in printed wraps, 6.75 x 4.5 in. 159pp., with glossary and bibliography. A very near fine copy, with moderate rubbing to the wraps (particularly rear) and light toning to textblock.   An entertaining and sometimes lurid... More

"He moved toward us, and the next thing I knew he was holding the paper right in front of my face. I could see something now. He had both palms up, and his thumbs were pinching the tracing paper. I saw some powder, green powder...."... More

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University, 1974. First edition. Octavo. 285pp.; bibliography and index. Gray cloth boards, black spine lettering; dust jacket. With a full-color leaf at front of volume illustrating two yarn paintings by Ramón Medina Silva, a Huichol shaman-priest and one of the book’s central... More

London: Edward Arnold, 1967. First edition. Small octavo (5 x 7.5 in.); viii, 117pp.; purple textured-paper boards, in dust jacket. Near fine, with lightly shelfwear and mild toning to textblock edges. In a very good jacket with rubbing and some loss of color along spine... More

NY: Random House, 1973. First edition. Octavo. Xix, 235pp.; index. Ochre cloth boards, gold lettering to spine and front panel; dust jacket. Cloth softened/bumped at spine ends, slight forward cocking. Else fine in a near fine, unclipped (“$6.95”) jacket with a scrape and small hole... More

“Our youth are being bombarded with drug-oriented songs, played and sung by drug-using rock and roll groups. The adult population has not been aware of these songs because the majority do not frequent places where this kind of music is performed, and because the decibel... More

Tigard, OR: The Fold, 1970. Octavo. Saddle-stapled in blue wraps printed with purple ink. 57pp. With the business cards of several Portland-area car dealerships reproduced at front and rear. Light rubbing and toning to wraps, else fine. Uncommon; OCLC locates only a single holding, at... More

NY: The World Publishing Company, 1971. First edition.  Octavo. 133pp. Black cloth boards, metallic red spine titles; dust jacket. About near fine (mild foxing to textblock fore-edge, former owner’s name stamped on front and rear endpapers and pastedowns) in a very good (+) jacket, sunned... More

“If people have no freedom to make such choices as cannabis over nicotine for their preferred lung irritant, what did the Constitution leave to them?” NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 1972. First edition. Octavo. Vi, 389pp.; index. Brown cloth boards; gold spine lettering; dust jacket.... More

NY: University Books, 1967. Octavo; 160pp; brown cloth boards, green spine lettering; dust jacket. Near fine, with light bumping bottom corners and along the tops of the boards, and moderate toning to textblock edges. Unclipped (“$4.95”) jacket has a curved 3” closed tear along top... More

Santa Fe: Synergetic Press, 2013. Quarto; xxiii, 383pp., with bibliography and index of names; pictorial papered boards, in dust jacket. Near fine, with light bumping to spine ends and board corners. In a near fine jacket, lightly crumpled at extremities. Out of print in hardcover;... More

NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974. First edition. Octavo; 170pp.; orange-brown cloth boards, black spine lettering, in dust jacket. A couple of minor bumps to base of rear board, else fine in a fine jacket with “$6.95” price still present on front flap. A meditation on... More

London: The Bodley Head, 1964. Translated from the French by Haakon Chevalier. Octavo; 230pp.; gray textured paper boards; dust jacket. Light bumping to board corners, a dozen or so spots of mild spotting to textblock fore-edge, “file copy” and bibliographic information penned on front free... More

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press / Phoenix Books, 1966. First trade paperback edition. Octavo; xviii, 108pp.; index. Signature-bound in printed wraps. Near fine: slight forward cock, light creasing along hinges, a touch of fading to spine. Signed and inscribed by Klüver on the half-title... More

Subtitle: "A Psychological Analysis of the Psychedelic State and Its Attendant Psychic Powers." Buffalo, NY: Creative Education Foundation, 1974. First edition. Octavo. Xxiii, 287pp. Perfect-bound in printed wraps, with laid-in errata sheet.with laid-in errata sheet. A very good copy, with sunning/browning to the wraps, some... More

Springfield, IL: Charles C. Thomas, 1988. First edition. Octavo. X, 169pp.; index. Light blue cloth stamped in gilt; dust jacket. From the library of the Fairfield Department of Public Safety, with a library pocket and stamp on the front free endpaper, and some scuffing/tape remains... More

[Washington, D.C.]: Bureau of Narcotics & Dangerous Drugs, [1972]. Octavo. 47pp. Saddle-stapled in printed green wraps. A very good (+) copy with light wear at tips and along spine hinge, a few minor spots of soiling. “This book was conceived as a document which would... More

San Francisco: The Bindweed Press, 1967. Octavo, side-stapled in printed wraps. Unpaginated (~100pp.). About near fine, with moderate toning to spine and edges of textblock, some wear/softening at corners. Securely bound, clean and unmarked throughout. OCLC locates a dozen holdings. Uncommon in the trade. A... More