Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality by Wasson, R. Gordon

-: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972. Trade Paperback. Good. used trade paperback edition. some sunning to spine edges and corners a bit bumped, some creasing/scuffing/wear to covers. heavy creasing to spine but binding is straight and tight with no marks to text or other serious flaws.

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972. 1. Softcover. Good. Good; Softcover; Front cover is clean and glossy with a few small handling-marks to the back cover and light reading-creases along the spine; Unblemished textblock edges; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; Binding shows wear from use, but is straight and is intact with no splits; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format (8.5" - 9.75" tall); 2.4 lbs; White covers with illustration of two red mushrooms, and title in red and white lettering; 1972, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; 381 pages; "Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality," by R. Gordon Wasson.

-: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1972. Trade Paperback. VG-. used trade paperback edition. lightly shelfworn, corners perhaps slightly bumped. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973. First Paperback Edition. Softcover. Very Good, bound in original illustrated wraps. Toning, edge wear and rubbing to wraps. Slight lean to spine, small owner name to corner of front end page. Text is unmarked. 8vo, 8"-9" tall. Ethno-Mycological Studies, No.1.

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 1973. Softcover. 0156838001 . Very Good in wraps. Creasing on panel corners and spine. Foxing on text block edges. ; 381 pages .

SOMA: Divine Mushroom of Immortality by R Gordon Watson, published in a deluxe edition w/ slipcase by Harcout, Brace & World Inc in 1968. This is the large paper limited edition w/ slipcase, including leather spine and colored prints. Book is in very good condition with the exception of damage to the head of the spine and slight wearing to the bottom. Pricing well below other copies, which are typically found between $1000-1700, to account for this and take into consideration any repairs the buyer may like to have done at their discretion. Title and author on the spine are unobscured. Pages and page ends are extremely bright; binding is strong; slipcase is solid though does show normal wear; covers are bright with normal wear.
From Google books re SOMA: Divine Mushroom of Immortality:
"One of the key enigmas of cultural history has been the identity of a sacred plant called Soma in the ancient Rig Veda of India. Mr. Wasson has aroused considerable attention in learned circles and beyond by advancing… Read More

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1968. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near-fine with slight foxing to page edges, otherwise clean and tight. In a very good dust jacket (price clipped) with slight soiling to extremities and a couple of areas on reverse, and a small tape repair at top of spine. A comprehensive study of the Amanita Muscaria hallucinogenic mushroom, with many illustrations including several color plates. A very nice copy of this scarce title.

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. FINE/NEAR FINE. 381 pp. color plates, B/W centerfold maps. Large 8vo, blue cloth, gilt spine lettering. Some foxing to extremities, blind impression of an erased pencil inscription to FFEP, very sound, sharp and square otherwise. DJ spine a bit toned, some trivial rubbind to tips, crisp and clean otherwise, now wrapped in mylar. First Edition, printed in Italy. A monumental study of psychoactive mushrooms in world religions with particular attention to Hindu scriptures. Wasson, a retired J.P. Morgan financier played a surprising and outsize role in 'turning on' hippie and counterculture American to psychoactive drugs. Wasson's work first came to prominence in a 1957 LIFE Magaizine expose on cultic use of mushrooms in Oaxaca, coauthored with his wife, Valentina Pavlovna Wasson. It was her discovery of amanita muscaria on their honeymoon in the Catskills in 1937 that first prompted the couple's lifelong monomaniacal mycophilia.… Read More

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc, 1973. Signed by R. Gordon Wasson on the half-title, warmly inscribed to former owner in San Francisco, dated Oct. 1, 1978. xiv, 381 pp. Bound in publisher's wraps. Very Good with bumped head, creasing to spine and, diagonally, to rear wrap. An uncommon signature from the American ethnomycologist on one of his most important works.

New York: Harcourt Brace & World, 1968. Deluxe Edition. Hardcover Hardcover. Near Fine Condition. 31cm x 21cm. xiii, 381 pages, 24 plates, 3 maps, 1 chart, black and white illustrations in the text. Quarter leather, gilt lettering, top edge gilt, cloth slipcase. The deluxe edition of Wasson's famous work on Amanita muscaria as the divine mushroom. 680 numbered copies designed by Giovanni Mardersteig, in a larger paper format handmade by Fratelli Magnani and with two plates in pochoir by Daniel Jacomet. Ethno-mycological Studies No. 1. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book. This is number 538. Previous owner's name to front free endpaper, very minor annotations to a few pages. Minor shelf wear and rubbing to slipcase. Shipped Weight: 2.5 kilos. BZDB407 Ethnopharmacology & Psychedelia; Ethnopharmacology & Psychedelia::Mushrooms; Unbranded R. Gordon Wasson Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality