The Drug Experience
New York: Orion Press, 1961. first edition. hardcover. 8vo 385pp. stated first printing. from front flap: "Here, for the first time in one volume, a collection of drug dreams, raptures and ravings, experiments and excesses--voyages "out of this world" charted by Hashish, Heroin, Morphine, Opium, Mescaline, Peyote, LSD and many other drugs. Almost forty accounts in the first person--some as classical as Baudelaire, De Quincey, and Havelock Ellis; others as contemporary as Alexander King, Mezz Mezzrow and Jean Cocteau---record the transfiguring or shattering experiences of those who dared to alter their consciousness, to reorder their perceptions through drugs." very good+: mild toning to endpapers, mild age/shelf wear to boards and spine, text clean, binding tight. / good: mild edge wear, clipped. Item #1077
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