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

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, [1977]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); original cloth in pictorial dust jacket by Robert Giusti; [2],316pp. Some foxing to top textblock edge, else Fine. 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

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1942. First Edition. First Prinitng. Octavo (19.5cm). Green cloth covered boards titled in black on cover and spine; 285pp. Spine ends lightly pushed; mildrubbing with faint evidence of bookplate removal on rear pastedown and endpaper; Very Good, lacking the dustjacket. HUBIN, p.152. [Kentucky Moonshine..... More

[N.p. S.i., 2009]. Collaborative work created by Colombian artist Wilson Díaz and San Francisco native Amy Franceschini. In 2009 Franceschini, an artist and educator in her own right, received an Art Matters grant for support in traveling to Cali, Colombia to work with Díaz on a new body of work..... More

El Cerrito: Free Amy Pofahl Campaign, n.d. but 2000. Original color photo-illustrated palm card (15x10cm.). Fine condition. Issued the same year Amy Pofahl would gain presidential clemency for her alleged involvement in a drug conspiracy with her estranged husband Charles Frederick "Sandy" Pofahl. Amy Pofahl would serve nine of a...... More

New York: Fund for Open Information and Accountability, [1987]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's red pictorial staplebound wrappers; 16pp.; text in double columns. Small soil spot to upper cover, light wear, else Very Good or better. "An analysis of the FOIA Amendments attached to the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986"..... More

New York: Fawcett Publications / Gold Medal Books, 1951. First Edition. The first of the author's 13 paperback original novels, telling the story of James Cassidy, war hero, former football star and airline pilot, who works as an alcoholic bus driver after being wrongly blamed for an airline crash. He's..... More