The Sacred Mushroom: Key to the Door of Eternity

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1959.
First Edition.

21.5cm x 14.5cm. 262 pages. Black and grey cloth, gilt lettering, illustrated jacket.

“The search for the secret plant of the ancients, used to send the mind to another world and into the future.” (from wrapper) A parapsychological researcher conducts an investigation of the Amanita muscaria and its effects on humans. One of the early works of psychedelic mushroom research, published only 2 years after the Wassons’ ethnomycological founding work Mushrooms, Russia and History.

Near Fine Condition in Good Jacket. Minor shelf wear. 1.5cm closed tear to top edge of jacket upper panel, shorter closed tear to tail of lower panel. Near Fine Condition.

AU$200.00

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