The Drug Experience: First Person Accounts of Addicts, Writers, Scientists and Others by Ebin, David (editor) - 1961

The Orion Press, 1961. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

The Orion Press, 1961. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

The Orion Press, 1961-01-01. First Edition. hardcover. Used - Good. 8x6x1. some wear. in a worn jacket. discoloration from age. Very readable copy.

1961 hardcover stated 1st printing. The best I can say about the dust jacket is that it is still here, laid in, in pieces,with lots of tears and chipping. Book itself has fraying on top of spine and other edges, staining/sunning, top corners a little bumped, tiny dent/tear on bottom of back board, light tanning, soil on edge, text clean, binding tight

New York: Orion Press, 1961. first edition. hardcover. very good+: mild toning to endpapers, mild age/shelf wear to boards and spine, text clean, binding tight./good: mild edge wear, clipped.. 8vo 385pp. stated first printing. from front flap: "Here, for the first time in one volume, a collection of drug dreams, raptures and ravings, experiments and excesses--voyages "out of this world" charted by Hashish, Heroin, Morphine, Opium, Mescaline, Peyote, LSD and many other drugs. Almost forty accounts in the first person--some as classical as Baudelaire, De Quincey, and Havelock Ellis; others as contemporary as Alexander King, Mezz Mezzrow and Jean Cocteau---record the transfiguring or shattering experiences of those who dared to alter their consciousness, to reorder their perceptions through drugs." #01152.

1 . hardback. Near Fine. First-person accounts of addicts, writers, scientists and others. Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by ED. 1st ed. NY (Orion) 1961. About fine in dust wrapper.

New York: The Orion Press , 1961. First printing stated on copyright page. Attractive, clean book printed years before the drug culture took over the American psyche. Featuring previously unpublished material, this anthology also includes personal reports from Theophile Gautier, Billie Holiday, William Burroughts, Jean Cocteau etc. In mylar. . First American Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: The Orion Press, 1961. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.25cm); two-tone gray cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; xii, 385, [3]pp. About Fine in a Very Good+ dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $5.95), with light wear to extremities, several short tears and attendant creases, notably absent the usual sunning to spine. Presumably the second-state jacket, with Mezz Mezzrow's name correctly spelled on rear panel and front flap. Contains writings by William S. Burroughs, Billie Holiday, Jean Cocteau, Havelock Ellis, Thomas De Quincey, Allen Ginsberg, and others.

New York: The Orion Press, 1961. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Good/Good. xi, [1], 385, [3] pages. Footnotes. References. DJ has some wear and soiling and is in a plastic sleeve. Name and address of previous owner stamped on fep. The previous owner was E. Kurt Rottler of York, PA. This is believed to be the same E. Kurt Rottler whose bequest funds The Rottler Award for Excellence in the Visual Arts that is annually made through the York Art Association. Rottler was a devoted member and President of the Board of Directors of the York Art Association from 1965 through 1970. This work covers Hemp, Opium, Peyote, Mushrooms and LSD. Among the first-person account contributors are: Charles Baudelaire, Thomas De Quincey, Jean Cocteau, William Burroughs, Billie Holiday, Havelock Ellis, Aldous Huxley, and Allen Ginsberg. Derived from a Kirkus review: This is the first collection of "the writings of travelers into drug-land", a documentation of sensation when under the influence of "hallucinogens",… Read More

New York: The Orion Press, 1961. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.25cm); two-tone gray cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; xii, 385, [3]pp. About Fine in a Very Good+ dustwrapper, price-clipped, with light wear to extremities. Presumably the first-state jacket, with Mezz Mezzrow's name misspelled on rear panel and front flap. Contains writings by William S. Burroughs, Billie Holiday, Jean Cocteau, Havelock Ellis, Thomas De Quincey, Allen Ginsberg, and others.