Chemical Warfare Secrets Almost Forgotten. A Personal Story of Medical Testing of Army Volunteers with Incapacitating Chemical Agents During the Cold War (1955-1975). With a Foreword by Alexander Shulgin. [Plus] insert for a 2007 conference, credited to both author and introducer [two items together]

Santa Rosa CA: Self-published by author Ketchum, 2007. Hardcover. [2]p. (Shulgin intro), iv, 1-360p., illustrated with numerous chemical formulae plain & fancy (the fancy are presented in neat small boxes color-xeroxed throughout the final quarter of text). First (and possibly last) edition, in 8X11 inch laminated boards, Text stock is entirely clay-coated paper, presswork is professional-level. Condition: slightly edgeworn, but expect structural and aesthetic damage to front hinge, where the pastedown of endsheet has begun to lift away from front board, a half-inch gap at gap's top end, dwindling away 3/4 of the way down. No leaves are lost or even at risk, book is slightly musty. All other aspects of the item perfectly sound, clean and unmarked, a good (good-only) copy that is inscribed and signed to a "great editor!" PLUS: five standard leaves imprinted with ten full pages of text, corner-stapled and somewhat edgeworn from storage in the smaller book. This inserted pamphlet is credited to Ketchum and Shulgin; there were only 30 to 40 attendees at this LA conference, this may be one of a very small run. The book, too. Day to day at Edgewood Arsenal, with jokes. Alexander Theodore "Sasha" Shulgin, a Bay Area guru of psychedelics, was well-known and likable, while James Ketchum not generally known-at-all. Both men were amused by cannabis research, which they shared like a gigantic joke. As for the humorous side of CBW, take this Ketchum quote: "Around that time I was just finishing a residency in psychiatry when I was offered an assignment to Edgewood Arsenal in February, 1961.. Which would require me to spend a lot less time reading MAD Magazine" --this quote to be found amongst the color presentations distributed at the Los Angeles meeting, p.5 of insert.