Confessions Of An English Opium Eater ( Opium-Eater ) IN Blue ILLUSTRATED Dustjacket OF Beautiful woman with Long Hair Nursing Sick Man, 1960, Everyman’s Library #223 ,Strange Bizarre & Fantastic Tale of De Quincey’s Struggle with Opium Habit. He tells of his Opium Dreams
by Thomas DE Quincey , (1785-1859), INTRODUCTION BY JOHN E. JORDAN , Orange & WHITE Decorated Endpapers, and PGS content edges lightly Foxed
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Confessions of an English Opium-eater is an autobiographical account written by Thomas de Quincey about his addiction to laudanum - a combination of opium and alcohol - and its effects. He first had it published anonymously in the London Magazine in 1821, but it was released as a book the following year.
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- Confessions Of An English Opium Eater ( Opium-Eater ) IN Blue ILLUSTRATED Dustjacket OF Beautiful woman with Long Hair Nursing Sick Man, 1960, Everyman’s Library #223 ,Strange Bizarre & Fantastic Tale of De Quincey’s Struggle with Opium Habit. He tells of his Opium Dreams
- Author
- Thomas DE Quincey , (1785-1859), INTRODUCTION BY JOHN E. JORDAN , Orange & WHITE Decorated Endpapers, and PGS content edges lightly Foxed
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- Used
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- 1
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- 1st THUS EDITION
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- Hardcover
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- EVERYMAN’S LIBRARY dent dutton
- Date Published
- 1960
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- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Drugs Thomas De Quincey OPIUM BRITISH EVERYMAN’S LIBRARY
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