Confessions Of An English Opium Eater And Suspiria De Profundis (Bibliolife Reproduction) by Thomas De Quincey - 2009-05-20

Garden City, NY: Dolphin Books. Mass Market Paperback. Near Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 233 pp. The book is very slightly cocked. The binding is tight and the text is clean.

Doubleday, January 1961. Mass Market Paperback . Used Good/yes .

Boston: Ticknor & Fields. Good. 1864. Hardcover. Rear cover has patches of discoloration. Pages are foxed with browned edges. Modern book plate on front endpaper. .

Tight, square spine. Clean, unmarked interior. Some sunning/toning and light edge-wear to the covers. As a young teen, De Quincey fled a Manchester boarding school to tramp around Wales, sleeping in a handmade tent and subsisting on rosehips and blackberries. At the age of 19, neuralgic facial pain drove him to opium use, and his dependency on the substance eventually formed the basis of the two pioneering works of addiction literature included in this volume. Features a unique three-color cover collaboration between mid-century design master George Giusti (whose minimalist designs include editions of John Barth's Chimera, S. J. Perelman's Crazy Like a Fox, Albert Camus's Caligula and 3 Other Plays, and Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh) and illustrator Edward Shenton (known for his contrastingly classical work in first editions of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's The Yearling, F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender Is the Night, Ernest Hemingway's Green Hills of Africa, and William Faulkner's The Unvanquished). 233 pp.

Boston MA: Ticknor and Fields, 1855. Hardcover. Good. 288 pages; 4 1/2 x 7 1/2" Dark brown cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Gilt lettering is slightly rubbed and faded; spine and boards are worn and show handling; board corners are bumped; previous owner's information is penciled on first page and title page; foxing to page edges and various pages; tissue-guard on title page is creased and foxed.

Paperback / softback. New.

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Hardback. New.

Paperback. New.

De Quincey Press, 2007. Paperback. New. 292 pages. 8.30x5.50x0.80 inches.