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Haschisch: A Novel
AU$1,000 Read MoreAdd to cartThorold King [Charles Gatchell]
New York: Brentano’s, 1888.First published in 1886 under the pseudonym Thorold King, a novel of narcotic experience following a young Englishman who travels to Egypt, becomes addicted to hashish, and experiences vivid hallucinations. Gatchell was known for his interest in and personal experimentation with cannabis indica extract. In an 1889 letter (sold at auction by Alex Autographs, 2012), he provided detailed instructions on smoking the resinous extract, stating that in his book “there are many facts and many actual experiences” and that it was “possible for you to repeat everything there described.” This copy, probably the author’s own, with a manuscript note on the title page reading: “Published originally by A. C. McClurg, who sold 3 editions. Then I turned it over to Brentano’s who published and sold 3 more editions. C.” Various advertisements and promotional materials for the book are glued to the pastedowns and endpapers. Among the relatively few 19th-century novels to treat cannabis, marijuana, and hashish in a broadly positive or experiential light.
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Look Homeward, Angel: A Story of the Buried Life
AU$2,500 Read MoreAdd to cartThomas Wolfe
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1929.Wolfe’s debut novel, a landmark autobiographical coming-of-age narrative in American literature. First edition, second state dust jacket. JOHNSTON A2.1.a.
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The Emperor Jones; Diff’rent; The Straw
AU$1,500 Read MoreAdd to cartEugene G. O’Neill
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1921.First edition, first state binding, in the original pictorial jacket. The Emperor Jones was a watershed in American theatre, one of the first major Broadway productions to feature a Black actor in a leading dramatic role of such prominence, originally performed by Charles S. Gilpin and later by Paul Robeson in a role that helped establish his international stage reputation. A bold expressionist exploration of fear, power, and racial consciousness, the play remains a landmark text in both African-American theatrical history and the development of modern American drama. ATKINSON A 15-I-i.a. Also includes Diff’rent, a two-act study of sexual repression in a New England fishing village, and The Straw, a naturalistic drama drawn from O’Neill’s own experience in a tuberculosis sanatorium.
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Scopolamine-Morphine Anaesthesia and A Psychological Study of Twilight Sleep Made by the Giessen Method
AU$500 Read MoreAdd to cartBertha Van Hoosen; Elizabeth Ross Shaw
Chicago: The House of Manz, 1915.Van Hoosen (1863-1952), pioneering American surgeon, was the first woman to head a surgical department at a coeducational university and a co-founder of the American Medical Women’s Association in 1915. She was a leading American advocate of scopolamine-morphine anaesthesia in obstetrics, the so-called Twilight Sleep method developed at the University of Freiburg. The technique, which rendered patients semiconscious and eliminated memory of labour pain, became the subject of a national campaign intersecting with first-wave feminist and suffrage-era activism following a widely-read 1914 McClure’s Magazine expose. Van Hoosen’s text, drawing on extensive clinical experience, covers the method’s application in both general surgery and obstetrics, with Shaw contributing a psychological study of patients under the Giessen protocol. Illustrated with a mounted photographic frontispiece and fifteen plates. This copy with a presentation inscription by the author.
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A Conspectus of the Pharmacopoeias of London, Edinburgh, Dublin, Paris, and the United States
AU$400 Read MoreAdd to cartG. M. Mowbray
London: J. Angerstein Carfrae, 1847.Formulas and preparations interleaved with manuscript notes and formulas of EJ Merrifield, with his signature dated 1850.
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Women in Mughal India (1526-1748 A.D.)
AU$150 Read MoreAdd to cartRekha Misra
Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1967.Scholarly historical study of the role and status of women in the Mughal Empire, based on the author’s doctoral thesis at the University of Allahabad. This copy from the collection of the controversial Tattersalls heir, Prof. V.J.A. Flynn.
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The Mughal Emperor Humayun
AU$200 Read MoreAdd to cartRama Shanker Avasthy
Allahabad: University of Allahabad, 1967.Scholarly historical biography of the second Mughal emperor, Humayun (1508-1556). The unrevised doctoral thesis of Rama Shanker Avasty, who died shortly after being awarded his doctorate, making this his only major publication, which was chosen as the first in a series of thesis to be published by the University. Foreword by Banarsi Prasad Saksena. This copy from the collection of the controversial Tattersalls heir, Prof. V.J.A. Flynn.
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The Constitution of the Czechoslovak Republic
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartKiri Hoetzl; V. Joachim
Prague: Edition de la Societe l’Effort de la Tchecoslovaquie, 1920.First edition of the Czechoslovak Constitution of 1920 with introductions by Jiri Hoetzl and V. Joachim. The 1920 constitution was the second constitution of Czechoslovakia ratified after WWI establishing it as a democratic republic, remaining in place until it was replaced in 1948 by the Ninth-of-May Constitution following the 1948 Czechoslovak coup d’etat by the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
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Gathered Leaves
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartElfrida Hill
Melbourne: The Australian Baptist Foreign Mission, 1934.Gleanings from an Adelaide born Baptist’s missionary work in India. This copy signed by Hill, and with some related clippings laid in.
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Love, Politics and Rescue In Lesbian Relationships
AU$60 Read MoreAdd to cartDiana Rabenold
Santa Cruz: HerBooks, 1987.HerBooks Lesbian-Feminist Essay Series, No. 2. Tools for lesbians to identify and resolve relationship problems.
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Sedative-Hypnotic Drugs: Risks and Benefits
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartJames R. Cooper
Rockville: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1977. -
Drugs in Western Pacific Societies: Relations of Substance
AU$80 Read MoreAdd to cartLamont Lindstrom
Lanham: University Press of America, 1987.ASAO Monographs No. 11. Explores drug use within interpersonal relations in the Pacific.
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The Varieties of Ecstasy Experience: An Exploration of Person, Mind and Body in Sydney’s Club Culture
AU$110 Read MoreAdd to cartSean Leneghan
Saarbrucken: LAPLambert Academic Publishing, 2010.Ethnographic study of ecstasy users in the raving and club scenes of Sydney, Australia.
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Smoking Technology of the Aborigines of the Iroquois Area of New York State
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartEdward S. Rutsch
Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1973. -
Cannabinoids as Therapeutics
AU$300 Read MoreAdd to cartRaphael Mechoulam
Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2005.A new selection of research papers on the present therapeutic uses and research of cannabis. Contributors include Ethan Russo, Lumir O. Hanus and Raphael Mechoulam, Roger G. Pertwee, Mauro Maccarrone, Javier Fernandez-Ruiz, Sara Gonzalez, Julian Romero, Jose Antonio Ramos, Stpehen A. Varvel, Aron H. Lichtman, Richard E. Musty, Susan M. Huang, J. Michael Walker, Luciano De Petrocellis, Maurizio Bifulco, Alessia Ligresti, Vincenzo Di Marzo, Linda A. Parker, Cheryl L. Limebeer, Magdalena Kwiatkowska, Itai A. Bab, Daniela Parolaro, Tiziana Rubino, Francis Barth, Murielle Rinaldi-Carmona, Geoffrey W. Guy, and Colin G. Stott. Edited by Raphael Mechoulam (1930-), an Israeli chemist known for the first isolation and synthesis of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the principal psychoactive in marijuana.
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The Analysis of Drugs of Abuse
AU$120 Read MoreAdd to cartTerry A. Gough
Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 1991.Outlines a variety of laboratory testing methods for detecting drugs of abuse with advice for law enforcement officers.
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Underground Lovers: Encounters with Fungi
AU$30 Read MoreAdd to cartAlison Pouliot
Sydney: Newsouth, 2023.“What can we learn from the lives of fungi? Underground Lovers brings us to our knees, magnifier in hand, to find out. Fungi offer a way to imagine life differently. In Underground Lovers Alison Pouliot reaches down to earth, and deeper, to dwell with fungal allies and aliens, discover how fungi hold forests together, and why humans are deeply entwined with these unruly renegades of the subterrain.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Allure of Fungi
AU$50 Read MoreAdd to cartAlison Pouliot
Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, 2022.“Although relatively little known, fungi provide the links between the various organisms and ecosystems that underpin our functioning planet. The Allure of Fungi presents fungi through multiple perspectives – those of mycologists and ecologists, foragers and forayers, naturalists and farmers, aesthetes and artists, philosophers and Traditional Owners. It explores how a history of entrenched fears and misconceptions about fungi has led to their near absence in Australian ecological consciousness and biodiversity conservation. Through the combination of engaging text and stunning photography, the author reflects on how aesthetic, sensate experience deepened by scientific knowledge offers the best chance for understanding fungi, the forest and human interactions with them.”
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Body Autonomy: Decolonizing Sex Work and Drug Use
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartJustice Rivera
Santa Fe and London: Synergetic Press, 2024.From erotic labor, to the rights of people who use psychoactive substances, to reproductive health and carcerality-we are living through a political moment when debates about bodily autonomy are at a fever pitch. Body Autonomy: Decolonizing Sex Work and Drug UseIn the words of leading advocates, service providers, and the scholars whose lives and communities have been harmed by American neo-colonial policies, Body Autonomy offers promising, healing-centered interventions that represent a critical culture shift.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Women and Psychedelics: Uncovering Invisible Voices
AU$40 Read MoreAdd to cartErika Dyck; Clancy Cavnar; Patrick Farrell; Ibrahim Gabriell; Beatriz C. Labate; Glauber Loures de Assis
Santa Fe and London: Synergetic Press, 2024.“This collection of short essays examines the place of women in the history of psychedelics. While some of the subjects are pioneers in their own right, the authors in this collection go beyond merely adding women to the past in psychedelic history, exploring some of the significant ways that women have contributed to psychedelic knowledge. Blending historical and anthropological approaches with a series of captivating interviews, this collection taps into women’s networks around the world throughout the 20th century. It reveals some of the sophisticated and creative ways women have influenced our understanding of psychedelics and how they will continue to protect these stories as we face our psychedelic future. Our collection intentionally moves beyond an American set of stories, teasing out networks in Latin America. This collection brings together authors from the Chacruna Institute and Chacruna Latinamerica to engage readers in conversations that move across time and place throughout the Americas. It is the first of its kind to balance non-English contributions through translation of stories exploring different cultural contexts outside the United States, where women have contributed to this enduring history.” (publisher’s blurb)