Kava Kava: Famous Drug Plant of the South Sea Islands by [NARCOTICS & STIMULANTS] STEINMETZ, E.F. (Dr.) - (1973)

San Francisco: Level Press, (1973). First American Edition. Octavo. Staple-bound, pictorial card wrappers; 36pp; illus. Mild bumps to wrapper edges; internally clean, tight and unmarked; Near Fine. Reprint of Steinmetz's 1960 treatise "Piper methysticum: kava, kawa, yaqona ; famous drug plant of the South Sea Islands (Amsterdam: 1960). Steinmetz (1901-1972) was among the leading ethnobotanists of his time, editor and publisher of The Journal of Crude Drug Research (1961-1972) and Acta Phytotherapeutica (1954-1972).