Horowitz Michael Compiler (2 results)

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Printed wrappers.

Wrappers. Condition: Good. William and Victoria Dailey, Antiquarian Books & Fine Prints, Published 1979. Wraps, [68] pp (unpaginated); 22 cm; staple bound; color illustrated front wrapper and color frontispiece, illustrated throughout with black-and-white reproductions of book covers, plates, and wood engravings. In Good condition. Tan illustrated wrappers, color illustration of a peyote cactus in flower on the front, staple bound; a few small nicks and light bumping to edges and corners, mild to moderate shelf wear with scuffing to edges and spine and color loss along the edges and spine. Binding tight. Pages mildly toned but otherwise unmarked. An antiquarian bookseller's catalogue devoted entirely to rare and important psychoactive drug literature from 1700 to the present, comprising 287 numbered entries with detailed bibliographic descriptions. Compiled by Michael Horowitz, with a foreword by ethnomycologist R. Gordon Wasson and a dated introduction (Elk, California, December 11, 1979). Described in its own introduction as the first antiquarian bookseller's catalogue devoted to the subject. Entries span opium, hashish and cannabis, cocaine, peyote and mescaline, and LSD, and include works by and items signed or inscribed by figures such as Albert Hofmann (the chemist who first synthesized LSD), Aleister Crowley, Charles Baudelaire, and William Burroughs. Heavily illustrated throughout with reproductions of book covers, plates, and wood engravings.