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ORION PRESS. NY 1961, 1961. Hardcover. Acceptable. Disclaimer:Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

1961 hardcover stated 1st printing. The best I can say about the dust jacket is that it is still here, laid in, in pieces,with lots of tears and chipping. Book itself has fraying on top of spine and other edges, staining/sunning, top corners a little bumped, tiny dent/tear on bottom of back board, light tanning, soil on edge, text clean, binding tight

New York: Orion Press, 1961. first edition. hardcover. very good+: mild toning to endpapers, mild age/shelf wear to boards and spine, text clean, binding tight./good: mild edge wear, clipped.. 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." #01152.

New York: Orion Press. 1961. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine copy in near fine dust jacket with traces of wear at the spine head and old price sticker at foot of rear panel. Nearly 30 contributions by Cocteau, Burroughs, Alex. King, Crowley, Baudelaire, Holiday, Mezzrow, Ludlow, Wasson and many more, writing about heroin and other opiates, LSD, hash, cocaine, mescaline and more. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 385 pp .

ORION PRESS. NY 1961. Near Fine. 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a priceclipped Nf. dj. (Offsetting to cloth covers. A few short edge tears in dj.) Features work by William S. Burroughs, Aldous Huxley, Billie Holiday & many others. .

New York: The Orion Press, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. In Mylar cover. Out of print. Important Sixties work on drug use, much used in researches. Binding is cloth boards.