New York: S.G. Rains Company, 1903. Hardcover. Very Good. Later edition, with a front cover design, frontispiece plate, and title-page plate pirated from designs by Aubrey Beardsley. Octavo. 371pp. Publisher's olive-green cloth stamped in black on front cover, gilt spine. Light wear to the edges of the boards, two leaves at the back a bit roughly opened, about near fine. The frontispiece, here titled: "Visions of a Hasheesh Eater" is a doctored version of Beardsley's "Of a Neophyte and how the Black Art was revealed unto him by the Fiend Asomuel" and the title page is a doctored version of Beardsley's "The Kiss of Judas". An attractive copy.

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Bookseller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 463371
Title: The Hasheesh Eater
Author: LUDLOW, Fitzhugh. (Aubrey Beardsley)
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: S.G. Rains Company
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1903
Keywords: Art/Illustration, Bindings, Biography

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Doctored: The restoring of a book to the original condition; repairing or mending a book to working order.
Plate: Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
Title Page: A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
Cloth: "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Fine: A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
Gilt: The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
Leaves: Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
Octavo: Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Spine: The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....