The Hasheesh Eater: Being Passages from the Life of a Pythagorean
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1857.
First edition. 371pp. Publisher's green pebbled cloth stamped in blind, gilt to spine. Good+ with wear, stains to cloth, bookplate to prelims, staining to endsheets. Textblock shaken, signs of 'tightening' to several gatherings. 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" and belongs to the style of literature known as "pharmo-picaresque."
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