Oh Excellent Air Bag: Under the Influence of Nitrous Oxide, 1799-1920

Cambridge: PDR Press, 2016.
Reprint.

22cm x 14cm. 139, [5] pages, illustrations, some colour. Illustrated wrappers.

“Collection of surreal and striking first-hand accounts of early “laughing gas” intoxication, and the secondary literature they spawned.” (publisher’s blurb) Includes writings by Humphry Davy, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, William James, Theodore Dreiser, and others. Introduction by Mike Jay.

. New Book.

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