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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
AU$5,500.00 Read MoreAdd to cartThomas De Quincey
London: Taylor and Hessey, 1822.First edition of the highly influential autobiographical account of De Quincey’s laudanum addiction. The establishing literary work in the artistic field of drug taking and creative expression. This copy with the half-title and without the advertisement leaf, in a fine signed 1911 Zaehnsdorf binding, with protective case.
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Les Paradis Artificiels: Opium et Haschisch
AU$4,000.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Baudelaire
Paris: Poulet-Malassis et de Broise, 1860.First edition of Baudelaire’s Artificial Paradises, on the drug experiences of hashish and opium and their relationship with creative expression, being accounts from within the walls of Le Club des Haschischins and a translation and adaptation of Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. CARTERET I:126. This copy rebound in a fine half leather binding without the wrappers.
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How To Be Psychedelically Aware: The Essential Harm Reduction Guide to Psychedelic Use in Australia
AU$22.00 Read MoreAdd to cartThurston Katt
[Sydney]: Psychedelically Aware, 2024.“How To Be Psychedelically Aware is your essential guide to navigating the world of psychedelics with mindfulness, responsibility, and deep self-awareness. Whether you’re a curious beginner or an experienced explorer, this book proves the tools to approach these powerful substances with clarity, intention, and respect.” (from cover blurb)
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Bacchus Wonder-wercken
AU$1,400.00 Read MoreAdd to cartD. P. Pers
T’Amstelredam: Dirck Pietersz, 1628.Waer in Het Recht Gebruyck en Misbruyck des Wijns, door verscheyden vermaeckelijcke eerlijcke en leerlijcke historien wort afgebeeld, ende lasteringe der Dronckenschap met levende verwen afgemaelt. Hier is by-gevoeght De Suyp-stad, of Dronckerts Leven: waer in alle hare gebouwen, manieren, aert, wetten &c. en alles wat by den Dronckaerts gebeurt, boertlijcker wyse word af-geschildert… /[Bacchus Wonder-works: Which in The Lawful Use and Misuse of Wine, by various entertaining honest and instructive history is depicted, and the blasphemies of Drunkenness are painted with living pains. Here is by-joined The Suyp-town, or Dronckert’s Life: where in all her buildings, manners, aert, laws &c. and everything that happens by the Dronckaerts is painted off …] Dutch work on wine by the bookseller Dirch Pieters Wittepers, illustrated with title vignette and 4 engravings by Gillis van Scheyndel in the text. Another work on The Hague, ‘s Graven-Hage, by Jacob vander Does (1668) without the title page or engravings bound before it.
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Tobacco and Alcohol
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Fiske
New York: Leypoldt & Holt, 1869.I. It Does Pay to Smoke. II. The Coming Man Will Drink Wine. A defense of drinking and smoking. The first book of American philosophy and historian John Fiske (1842-1901). This copy with the bookplate of Daniel Edwards Kennedy.
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An Essay on Hasheesh
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartVictor Robinson
New York: Dingwall-Rock, 1930.“A minor classic, combining experimental reports with sophisticated wit: totally unlike every other book on the subject.” (Phantastica 244). Victor Robinson (1886-1947) was a Ukranian-American physician and medical historian. Stated Second Edition though technically the third after first appearing privately in 1912 and then in a trade edition in 1925.
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Die Menschlichen Genussmittel
AU$350.00 Read MoreAdd to cartC. Hartwich
Leipzig: Chr. Herm. Tauchnitz, 1911.[Human Stimulants: Their Origin, Distribution, History, Use, Components and Effects.] Monumental encyclopedia of ethnopharmacology by German pharmacist Carl Hartwich (1851-1917) based on anthropological and ethnological studies from remote sources.
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The Chemistry of Common Life (2 Volumes)
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJames F. W. Johnston
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1855.“The first work in English to treat the entire psychoactive plant kingdom.” (Phantastica, 114) Thorough chapters devoted to opium, cannabis, coca, betel nut, Amanita muscaria, as well as tea, coffee, beer, wine, and liquors.
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Toadstools and Mushrooms and other Larger Fungi of South Australia (Parts I and II, 1934-1935)
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJohn Burton Cleland
Adelaide: A. B. James, Government Printer, 1976.The photolitho reprint edition with the two parts in one with a new foreword and additional notes.
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What You Always Wanted to Know About Drugs and Sex
Read MoreRichard St. John
Wilmington: Eros Publishing Co., 1973.Non-fiction drug sex pulp. Eros Goldstripe GPD-40. Illustrated throughout with photographs of a naked young couple taking drugs and having sex.
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The Acid Eaters
Read MoreRolf Kirby
New York: B. B. Sales Co., 1968.Novelization by Rolf Kirby with photography by Bill New from the original screenplay by Carlos Monsoya [Carl Monson]. Drug pulp. Olympic Foto-Reader F108. “A revealing expose of what it’s like to spend a wild weekend with drug-happy, sex-mad motorcyclists … sharing all their weird hangups!”
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Acid Temple Ball
Read MoreMary Sativa
New York: The Olympia Press, 1971.Second printing of this psychedelic erotica classic. “Mary Sativa tells the rather simple, but very beautiful story of a young art student’s life and loves in New York City and San Francisco. Her experiences are passionate, searching and tender, as she moves from east to west coat looking to learn a little more about the bemusing experience of living.” (while taking lots of drugs and having lots of sex). OPS-56.
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Acid Temple Ball
Read MoreMary Sativa
New York: The Traveller’s Companion Series, The Olympia Press, 1969.First edition, first printing, of this psychedelic erotica classic. “Mary Sativa tells the rather simple, but very beautiful story of a young art student’s life and loves in New York City and San Francisco. Her experiences are passionate, searching and tender, as she moves from east to west coat looking to learn a little more about the bemusing experience of living.” (while taking lots of drugs and having lots of sex). The Traveller’s Companion Series TC-450.
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All-in-Vue 84 Drink Recipes
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMatthew J. Feeney
New York: Matthew J. Feeney, No date.Cocktail and bar guide mainly compiled from The Professional Bartenders guide and distributed in various wrappers as promotional material for bars and booze businesses. Here with the wrappers for Brooklyn wine importer Matthew J. Feeney. Includes quick sight tabs for cocktails, fizzes, rickeys, highballs, punches, and more. Also facts about wine, canapes, garnishes, etc.
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Atlas of Fungi
AU$30.00 Read MoreAdd to cartK. Kavina
London: Lincolns-Prager, 1947. -
Practical Mycology: Manual for Identification of Fungi
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartSigurd Funder
New York and Kingston-Upon-Thames: Hafner Publishing Company, 1968. -
Les Champignons Comestibles & Veneneux
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartA. de La Rocque
Paris: Nodot Editeur, No date.Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms: General Notions. Classification. Study of Characteristics.
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Some Edible Mushrooms and How to Know Them
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartNina Lane Faubion
Portland: Binfords & Mort, 1938.Pocket mushroom hunting manual on edible varieties together with a chapter on poisonous amanitas.
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The Essential Psychedelic Guide
AU$150.00 Read MoreAdd to cartD. M. Turner
San Francisco: Panther Press, 1994.A detailed, and very drug nerdy, guide to psychedelic experimentation. An experiential view on many of the classical psychoactive substances.
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Researches, Chemical and Philosophical, Chiefly Concerning Nitrous Oxide, or Dephlogisticated Nitrous Air, and Its Respiration
AU$60.00 Read MoreAdd to cartHumphry Davy
London: Butterworths, 1972.Researches, Chiefly Concerning Nitrous Oxide. First published in 1800, when Davy was only 22, outlining his experiments with nitrous, coining the term laughing gas, and suggesting to its anesthetic qualities, which were not regularly used in medicine for many years to come. Facsimile edition of a landmark work in chemistry and anesthesia.