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LSD. My Problem Child

by Hofmann, Albert. Translated by Jonathan Ott

First American edition

Price: $600.00


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Book description: New York, St. Louis, San Francisco: McGraw - Hill Book Company, 1980. Hardcover First American edition 8" x 5". 210pp. Black cloth hardback with orange spine lettering, in dust wrapper. Fine condition; fine jacket with just a hint of wear at the tip of the spine. A terrific copy. This copy signed by Hofmann and by the translator on the title page. Hofmann is a prominent Swiss scientist best known as the "father of LSD". This book is his memoir of the birth of the Psychedelic Age, and the intriguing history of Acid. With details on the systematic research, Hofmann's personal experimentation, characters along the way such as Aldous Huxley, Timothy Leary and Gordon Wasson, Hofmann's ethical dilemma, etc. Translator Ott is a prominent ethnobotanist and author in his own right. laid in to this copy is a McGraw - Hill flyer advertising two other books on hallucinogenic drugs.

  • Bookseller: John Michael Lang Fine Books US (US)
  • Bookseller Inventory #: 12541
  • Format/binding: Hardcover
  • Quantity available: 1
  • Edition: First American edition
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Publisher: McGraw - Hill Book Company,
  • Place: New York, St. Louis, San Francisco:
  • Date published: 1980.

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