The Book of Nods.
[NY]: Viking, [1986]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Briefly inscribed by the author. The hardcover printing was small. Fine in very near fine dust jacket.
Drugs
Poem, Interview, Photographs.
Louisville, KY: White Fields Press, 1994. Pamphlet. First edition. One of 26 lettered copies signed by Carroll. Prints the poem "8 Fragments for Kurt Cobain," plus an interview with Carroll about the Beats, drugs, Catholicism, and more. Illustrated with photographs. Published as Heaven Chapbook Series No. 50. Very fine.
River Jordan.
n.p.: Privately published by the author, 2002. Broadside poem. First edition. Illustrated. One of 75 numbered copies signed by Carroll (of a total edition of 150). Designed and printed by Laura Mendoza. As new.
Joy Kitten.
NY: Softcover Library, [1967]. First edition of this Paperback Original. "She was high on beer, pot, wild partying and sex. But Cass rescued her from double disaster---by coming on wilder than she did." Pages very slightly toned, else fine.
Larry Clark 1992.
[NY & Cologne: Thea Westreich/Gisela Capitain, 1993]. 4to. Softbound (only issued softbound). First edition. A very fine, fresh copy, basically as new.
LSD: Insanity or Insight?
n.p.: Bailey Films, 1967. 16mm educational color film about LSD. Running time 18 minutes. Narrated by Sal Mineo (who also sings the song that plays over the credits!). Includes an interview with Sidney Cohen and others who declare how LSD can lead to suicide or insanity, a history of how...
Hallucinogenic Drugs and Their Application to Extra-sensory Perception.
[Joshua Tree, CA]: Hypnosophic Institute, 1962. Pamphlet. First edition. Very scarce early study on one of the most interesting aspects of hallucinogenic drug research. Small, faint ink price to front cover, some toning to edges, else near fine.
Mindfield.
[NY: Thunder Mouth Press, 1989]. Hardbound, issued without dust jacket. First edition. Forewords by William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg. One of 250 numbered copies signed by Corso. Housed in publisher's paper-covered slipcase. Minute bump to one corner of slipcase and book, else fine.
Be Not Content: A Subterranean Journal.
NY: Doubleday, 1970. Softbound. First edition. "Being a skeletal history and chronicle of the experiences of a single, minor freak connected to a single, minor tribe of acid freaks in California, beginning in the early days of the Psychedelic Revolution." Discrete owner's name to inside corner of front cover, else...
God's Flesh and Other Pre-Columbian Phantastica [Cover title: Pre-Columbian Hallucinogens].
LA: Privately published, 1970. Folio. First separate printing of this long article that originally appeared in The Bulletin, the official publication of the Los Angeles Medical Association. Historical overview of the use of hallucinogens by natives of the North and South American continents since before Columbus. Handsomely printed in an...
"Junkie!": The Life and Loves of a Drug Addict!
NY: Falcon Books, [1952]. First edition of this Paperback Original digest. Wonderful, scantily-clad-junkie-woman cover illustration. "Steve's search for Wally's murderer takes him into sordid 'Dream Street,' the world of 'junkies,' murderers, and prostitutes..." One of the half dozen scarcest and most desirable classic drug exploitation paperbacks. Has all the requisite.....
The Golden Hooligan.
[NY]: Dell, [1961]. First edition of this Paperback Original. "Pete Schofield tangles with marijuana and murder..." Small tear to spine, else fine.
Chronic Cannabis Use.
NY: New York Academy of Sciences, 1976. Softbound. First edition. Published as Vol. 282 in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. Solid very good plus to near fine.
Dr. Natural's High Toy Guide.
n.p.: Ten Speed Press, [1971]. Oblong 16mo. Softbound. Second printing. Cartoons and text about dopers and drugs. Tiny remainder line to bottom edge, else fine.
Exploring Inner Space.
NY: Harcourt, Brace & World, [1961]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Written pseudonymously by famed nutritionist Adele Davis, this is the first book about the psychedelic experience written by a woman. Small owner's sticker to f.f.e., else fine in very slightly used, price-clipped dust jacket with some toning to.....
The Drug Experience: First Person Accounts of Addicts, Writers, Scientists, and Others.
NY: Orion Press, [1961]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. The first anthology of drug writings, with contributions by William Burroughs, Baudelaire, Ludlow, Crowley, Gordon Wasson, Allen Ginsberg, Billie Holiday, De Quincey, Mezz Mezzrow, Cocteau, Slotkin, and many others. A landmark work. Near fine in dust jacket with minor wear...
Drug Tales.
NY: St. Martin's Press, [1979]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. A collection of drug stories by Hunter Thompson, Edgar Allen Poe, William Burroughs, Terry Southern, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and others. Fine.
Woodblock print by Paul Frenzeny titled: ''Scene in a Chinese Opium Palace, San Francisco.''
n.p.:n.p., [1880]. Shows two reclining smokers being waited upon by an attendant as another man peers around the corner. From an 1880 issue of Harper's Weekly. The print measures approx. 6.5" x 9" and takes up half of the full page. Fine.
Funky Scents Strawberry Super Sticks.
Jamacia, NY: Funky Enterprises, n.d. [ca. 1973]. Vintage package of strawberry incense intended to mask the smell of marijuana smoke "It Clears the Air." Plastic envelope with cardboard header printing a cartoon illustration of a stoned hippie smoking a joint. Head shop item from the heyday of drug paraphernalia. Fine.
The Connection.
NY: Grove Press, [1960]. Softbound. First edition of the author's first book. Introduction by Kenneth Tynan. A highly acclaimed play about heroin addiction, originally presented by The Living Theatre. Illustrated with photographs (cover photograph of a junkie shooting up). About fine.
Documents on Police Bureaucracy's Conspiracy Against Human Rights of Opiate Addicts & Constitutional Rights of Medical Profession Causing Mass Breakdown of Urban Law & Order.
n.p.: Privately published by the author, ca. 1970. 4to. Original xerox sheets stapled at the corner, as issued. First edition, first issue (without the additional note to front cover). Limited to 300 copies. Fine. Scarce.
High Times, October 1982.
n.p.:n.p., [1982]. Includes an interview with Allen Ginsberg plus articles on Amsterdam, cocaine, and more. Fine.
Opium the Demon Flower.
NY: Montrose Publishing, 1928. Softbound in printed wraps with an illustration of an opium poppy to front cover. Third edition. Presentation copy inscribed by the author. Classic anti-drug tract about "the stark tragic story of opium and its slaves." Includes a comprehensive history of the war on opium, its use...
Suck: First European Sexpaper, Nos. 1 through 8 (all published).
Amsterdam: Joy Publications, 1969-1974. Tabloid format, early issues on newsprint, later issues on coated stock. Suck was founded in Amsterdam in 1969 by Bill Levy, Germaine Greer, Heathcote Williams and others. It was among the most important underground newspapers of the period, not only because of its enlightened stance on...
The Institute for Contemporary Studies Newsletter, February 1967, Vol. 1, No. 4.
SF: Privately published by G. G. Harrison, 1967. Two legal-size mimeographed sheets stapled in the corner. This issue devoted to bad LSD trips, stating that "Bad Trips are good trips in disguise," including personal accounts from several trippers who, despite some unpleasantness, had a positive experience. Old creases where previously...