Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality

R. Gordon Wasson

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Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

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1968

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First Edition.

25cm x 17cm. xiii, 381 pages, 22 plates, 3 maps, 1 chart, black and white illustrations in the text. Blue cloth, gilt lettering, illustrated jacket.

The first trade edition of Wasson’s famous work on Amanita muscaria as the divine mushroom. Ethno-mycological Studies No. 1. This copy with the bookplate and stamp of the German publisher Wolfgang Metzner.

Very minor shelf wear. Very minor foxing to top edge. Near Fine Condition.