Baltimore: Willliams & Wilkins, 1968. First Edition. Octavo. Maroon cloth; 520pp. Ex-Institute for Psychoanalysis (Chicago), with bookplate and card pocket. Very Good. 43rd volume in the series. Contributions include "Addiction to Barbiturate andNonbarbiturate Sedative Drugs" (Carl F. Essig); "Patterns of Intravenous Self-Injection by Morphine-addicted Rats" (James R. Weeks and R...... More

Indianapolis: Carlon & Hollenbeck, 1892. Later (fourth?) printing (first published 1877). Octavo (20cm). Embossed cloth, titled in gilt; 212pp; frontispiece portrait. Mild rubbing to boards; still a tight, straight copy, internally clean, sound, and unmarked. A popular temperance memoir, written from an Indiana sanitarium, describing a lifetime of abject slavery..... More

Dresden: Verlag Sächische Landeshauptstelle gegen den Alkoholismus, 1930. First Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's blue cloth-backed printed paper-covered boards; 152pp. & 8 leaves of illus. printed on rectos and versos. Corners gently bumped, boards rather dust-soiled, else Very Good, internally fine. Publication of the third congress of the Saxonian anti-alcoholism league..... More

Boston: World Peace Foundation, 1925. First Edition. Small octavo. Original side-stapled, printed paper wrappers; pp 39-194,(3). Mild toning to page edges, still clean, tight and unmarked, Very Good or better. Resolutions and source documents relating to this series of conferences on the international opium trade, sponsored by the World Peace..... More

New York: Grove Press, 1959 [but 1962]. First American Edition. A Beat Generation cornerstone, and basis for David Cronenberg's bizarre 1991 film starring Peter Weller. MAYNARD & MILES A2.b. First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm.); half charcoal gray paper over black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; black topstain; yellow..... More

New York: Simon and Schuster, [1972]. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.75cm.); brown cloth hardcover; dust jacket; 315pp. Tight, straight, and Near Fine. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $6.95 on front flap), crisp and unworn, a fine example. Third work covering the author's apprenticeship with Yaqui Indian mystic..... More

New York: Simon and Schuster, [1971]. First Edition. Octavo (21.25cm.); original cloth in black pictorial dust jacket by Roger Hane; 317pp. Jacket rubbed with some chipping to spine crown, rear panel somewhat dampstained, spine a bit cocked. About Very Good overall. Continuation of the author's first book, The Teachings of..... More

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974. First Edition. First Printing. 8vo. 22cm x 15cm. Publisher's dark blue cloth. Dustjacket. Titled in gilt and orange to spine and front board, clean and strong, in a bright, striking pictorial dustjacket. A near fine copy. 287pp. Internally clean. Scarlet endpapers. A classic of..... More

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967. First Edition. First printing, issue for libraries (this copy never accessioned). Octavo. Full pictorial cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 126pp. A fine copy in the original pictorial boards. In the original dustwrapper, upper flap corner clipped by publisher but $2.92 price remaining at lower corner;..... More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, [1912]. First Edition. American diplomat Richard Washburn Child's first novel, a medical horror story in the spirit of Wilkie Collins dealing with themes of heredity, psychiatry, and drug abuse. SMITH C-371. Octavo (19cm.); original blue cloth (a bit soiled) lettered in white; vi,[2],377,[3],[2](ads)pp.; color illustrated title..... More

[Golden, CO: Brewery Workers Local 366, n.d. - ca. 1978]. Local 366 of the International Brewery, Bottling, Can and Allied Industrial Union struck the Coors brewery in Golden, Colorado in 1977, citing discriminatory hiring practices and, especially, the company's intrusive use of polygraph tests to terminate "undesirable" employees. By 1979..... More

[Los Angeles: Crack the C.I.A. Coalition, 1997]. Broadside, 11" x 8-1/2". Offset printed in black, on white bond. Fine. An apparently unused, uncirculated copy. The "Crack the C.I.A. Coalition" was a briefly active Los Angeles political organization, composed of African-American, Latino, and allied progressive groups who coalesced around the theory..... More