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Berkeley, CA:: Frog Books,, (2003). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. A memoir by the daughter of writer Irving Wallace (who introduced her to Castaneda), which describes "her complex relationship with Carlos Castaneda [as it] plunges readers deep into the reality of the Castaneda cult and the psychological terrors it perpetrated. With… Read more about this item

Frazier Park, CA: : Access Unlimited,, 1995.. First edition -. Very near fine in illustrated wrappers. . First printing, a trade paperback. Survey of the use of marijuana over the centuries, from Mesopotamia to the modern age. Foreword by Jack Herer, afterword by George Clayton Johnson. Illustrated, maps, footnotes, bibliography and index. 485 pp. plus… Read more about this item

New York:: McGraw-Hill,, (1979). Hardcover -. Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped). 2nd printing. An account of some of the early botanists, explorers and foot-loose travellers brought us such things as coffee, tea and chocolate, spices from black pepper to nutmeg, cloves and more - as well as medicinal herbs like quinine from the "fever bark tree."… Read more about this item

Albuquerque:: University of New Mexico Press,, (2005). Fine (a new copy). Trade paperback. From the cover: "Eliseo Torres, known as Cheo, grew up in the Corpus Christi area of Texas and knew, firsthand, the Mexican folk healing practiced in his home and neighborhood. Later in life, he wanted to know more about the plants and rituals of… Read more about this item

New York:: William Wood and Company,, (1884) . Hardcover -. Very good in embossed brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, red tinting to all edges - some fraying to the top of the spine, a bit of damage to the leaf opposite the frontispiece,rubbing and wear to the corners, but overall tight and sturdy. . . … Read more about this item

Berkeley, CA:: Shambala Publications, , 1970.. Hardcover first edition -. Near fine in glossy illustrated boards (upper corners slightly bumped, gift inscription on half title page). First US printing. A retelling of an Indian legend from Guatemala about a boy who is given a magic drink by a medicine man which sends him on an incredible trip… Read more about this item

Philadelphia:: University of Pennsylvania Press,, (1992). First edition -. Near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (previous owner's name inside front cover).. First printing, a trade paperback, issued simultaneously with hardcover. A provocative and very unusual anthropology work - Edith Turner was the wife of the noted anthropologist Victor Turner and for several years in the 1950s, she… Read more about this item

Algonic, MI:: Reference Publications, Inc.,, (1981). Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. The Caribbean islands have had a long acquaintance with herbal medicine in the form of "bush teas" going back to the early days of slavery and using both plants introduced from West Africa and indigenous plants. Illustrated with full page… Read more about this item

Chicago:: Field Museum of Natural History,, 1930.. First edition -. Fine in stapled tan wrappers. . First printing. One of a series of leaflets designed to give brief non-technical accounts of the beliefs, habits and customs of various races. Illustrated with 6 plates in photogravure. Bibliography. 45 pp plus final plate.

Chicago:: Field Museum of Natural History,, 1924.. First edition -. Near fine in stapled tan wrappers (some wear to the yapped edges, contents fine). First printing. One of a series of leaflets designed to give brief non-technical accounts of the beliefs, habits and customs of various races. This includes information on pipes, tobacco, opium, Tibetan snuff-bottles, tobacco-chewing… Read more about this item

Tucson:: University of Arizona Press,, 1980.. First edition -. Fine in printed orange wrappers (as new). First printing. Includes detailed information on the pottery and ethnobotanical remains found in the cliff dwellings of the area, illustrated with photographs, line drawings, charts and maps. Number 36 of the Anthropological Papers of the University of Arizona, a peer-reviewed monograph… Read more about this item

Philadelphia:: University of Pennsylvania Press,, (1998). Hardcover first edition -. Very good in a fine dust jacket. (some scattered highlighting). First printing. In 1978, the responded to increased interest in medicinal plants by convening a series of international consultations, seminars, and symposia to explore and promote the use of medicinal plants. Medicinal Plants presents the proceedings… Read more about this item

Rochester, VT:: Park Street Press,, (2009). First edition -. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers (as new) .. First printing, a trade paperback original. An account of almost half a century of pioneering research in the Amazon and Peru by this noted anthropologist studying hallucinogens, including ayahuasca. Although the Harvard ethnobotanist Richard Evans Schultes was credited in the… Read more about this item

New York:: William Wood & Company,, 1887.. Hardcover first edition -. Ex-medical society library but with only a few marks, and overall tight and clean in original dark green cloth with gilt lettering and bands on the spine. A few shallow scratches to the cloth.. First American edition. Translated by Frederick B. Power from the second and… Read more about this item

Springfield, IL: : Charles C. Thomas,, (1935). Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in dark red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a very good dustjacket with minor wear, some sunning to the spine of the dj. Rather uncommon, especially in this condition and in a dust jacket. . First edition.… Read more about this item

Manchester, UK: : Manchester University Press of behalf of The Institute for African Studies, Zambia, , (1961). First edition -. Near fine in printed blue wrappers (upper corner slightly bumped, some toning to spine of wrapper). First printing, a trade paperback. A preliminary analysis of the raw data, rather than a finished work - one which focuses… Read more about this item

Capetown and London:: Oxford University Press of behalf of The Institute for African Studies, Zambia, , 1953.. First edition -. Very good in printed blue wrappers (toning to covers, embossed seal on front cover) .. First printing, a trade paperback. A paper written as a study-in-the-field, which focuses on the place of 'bona' in post-mortem rituals. … Read more about this item

Edinburgh: : E & S Livingstone, , 1962.. Hardcover -. Very good+ in gray cloth in a very good dust jacket (previous owner's name and stamp, some rubbing to the dj). A very large and heavy book. . Second edition. The second - and best - edition of this authoritative and comprehensive work. In fact, it… Read more about this item

Rochester, Vermont:: Park Street Press, , (2006). Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.. First thus- a trade paperback. A book with articles by more than 30 contributors - on the "chemical, biological, cultural, psychological, and experiential dimensions of psilocybin mushrooms." It includes firsthand accounts of the Harvard Psilocybin Project, including the Concord Prison and Good Friday studies -… Read more about this item

Madison, WI:: American Institute of the History of Pharmacy,, 1987.. First edition -. Fine.. First printing in wrappers. No hardcover edition. Edited and with an introduction by John Scarborough (who also contributes an essay on the recognition of drugs in classical antiquity) Includes seven essays by David L. Cowen, John M. Riddle, Eric H. Christianson, and others… Read more about this item