The Hasheesh Eater: Being Passages from the Life of a Pythagorean
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1857.
First edition. 371 pp. Bound in publisher's brown pebbled cloth, front and back stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt, pale yellow endpapers. Very Good with rubbing and mottling to cloth, a few small stains to spine, offsetting to endpapers, erasure mark to paste down, a few small stains and a bit of foxing to contents, small light tidemark to inner margins. A memoir in the style of Confessions of an English Opium Eater, which sparked American interest in the cannabis extract from hashish candies to private hashish parlors. It has been called "the first psychedelic work in America."
Price: $1,100.00
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