1957, ISBN: 6cc586a8815ebb3d3d516036f07cb181

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. FINE/NEAR FINE. 381 pp. color plates, B/W centerfold maps. Large 8vo, blue cloth, gilt spine lettering. Some foxing… Mehr…

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. FINE/NEAR FINE. 381 pp. color plates, B/W centerfold maps. Large 8vo, blue cloth, gilt spine lettering. Some foxing to extremities, blind impression of an erased pencil inscription to FFEP, very sound, sharp and square otherwise. DJ spine a bit toned, some trivial rubbind to tips, crisp and clean otherwise, now wrapped in mylar. First Edition, printed in Italy. A monumental study of psychoactive mushrooms in world religions with particular attention to Hindu scriptures. Wasson, a retired J.P. Morgan financier played a surprising and outsize role in 'turning on' hippie and counterculture American to psychoactive drugs. Wasson's work first came to prominence in a 1957 LIFE Magaizine expose on cultic use of mushrooms in Oaxaca, coauthored with his wife, Valentina Pavlovna Wasson. It was her discovery of amanita muscaria on their honeymoon in the Catskills in 1937 that first prompted the couple's lifelong monomaniacal mycophilia. Gordon's continuation of their research after Valentina's death is presented here in its most refined form., Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 4.5<

1957, ISBN: 6cc586a8815ebb3d3d516036f07cb181

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Tweedehands, goed, [SC: 40.58], [PU: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich], , Jacket, 381 pp. color plates, B/W centerfold maps. Large 8vo, blue cloth, gilt spine lettering. Some foxing to extremiti… Mehr…

Tweedehands, goed, [SC: 40.58], [PU: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich], , Jacket, 381 pp. color plates, B/W centerfold maps. Large 8vo, blue cloth, gilt spine lettering. Some foxing to extremities, blind impression of an erased pencil inscription to FFEP, very sound, sharp and square otherwise. DJ spine a bit toned, some trivial rubbind to tips, crisp and clean otherwise, now wrapped in mylar. First Edition, printed in Italy. A monumental study of psychoactive mushrooms in world religions with particular attention to Hindu scriptures. Wasson, a retired J.P. Morgan financier played a surprising and outsize role in 'turning on' hippie and counterculture American to psychoactive drugs. Wasson's work first came to prominence in a 1957 LIFE Magaizine expose on cultic use of mushrooms in Oaxaca, coauthored with his wife, Valentina Pavlovna Wasson. It was her discovery of amanita muscaria on their honeymoon in the Catskills in 1937 that first prompted the couple's lifelong monomaniacal mycophilia. Gordon's continuation of their research after Valentina's death is presented here in its most refined form.<