Confessions Of an English Opium Eater

by De Quincey, Thomas

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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by Thomas De Quincey

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1886
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Marbled boards with gift inscription on free endpaper, dated 1892. Hardcover measures 17 x12mm, octavo with intro by William Sharp. Minor edge wear to boards. Pages have minor age toning. 2 other stories included in the 275 pages, ROSICRUCIANS AND THE FREEMASONS as well as KANT ON NATIONAL CHARACTER IN RELATION TO....
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by De Quincey, Thomas; Introduction by William Bolitho; Twelve Lithographs drawn on stone by Zhenya Gay

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Oxford: Printed for the Limited Editions Club at the Shakespeare Head Press, 1930. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Folio (10 c 13.5 inches). 77 pp. Limited to 1520 copies, this being No. 278. Signed by the publisher B.H. Newdigate and by the illustrator Zhenya Gay. Bound in canvas-backed Cockerell marbled paper boards, spine titled in gilt. Includes 12 stunning lithographs… Read more about this item
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London, 1823. Hard Cover. (London: Taylor and Hessey 1823). SECOND EDITION in book form. iv, 206 pages + 6pp publisher's adverts at the end. 12mo. Recent hand-crafted rebind in half calf with raised bands and tooling to the spine in gold leaf. Hand-marbled paper boards. The end-papers have been replaced with period hand-made… Read more about this item
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The birth of a new genre First book edition. Uncut in original boards with both the oft-missing half-title and advertising leaves. Rubbed and slightly chipped, excellently rebacked, upper joint neatly repaired, rear board loose. The pages are very fresh, just a few stray spots on some leaves and neat pencil underlining of some passages. A beautiful, Very Good copy and… Read more about this item
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London: John Lane The Bodley Head LTD. (1930), 1930. First edition thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/very near Fine. 8vo. [3], v-xix, [4], 4-304 pp. Green cloth with gold lettering and decorations on the front board and spine. Price of 21/- net on the spine panel of the dust jacket. Illustrated with decorative endpapers and pastedowns, a frontispiece, and eleven… Read more about this item
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London: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd; E. P. Dutton & Co., New York,, 1913. Everyman's Library edition, in the publisher's deluxe quarter pigskin, the most expensive of the four bindings in which it was issued, and produced in smaller numbers than the others. The remaining three binding styles that the classic reprint series offered in its earliest years… Read more about this item
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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
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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

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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HBDJ, 1960, 1ST EDITION THUS, EARLY ISSUE REPRINT, IN Blue ILLUSTRATED Dustjacket OF Beautiful woman with Long Hair Nursing Sick Man, VG+/VG ,12 mo. 272 PGS, NOTES, BACK OF DJ A FEW OF 500 AUTHORS ENDS WITH ZOLA, larger format binding style 4. Full dark blue cloth-covered boards with copper-look spine titling and gilt "EL" in script… Read more about this item
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CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER

by DE QUINCEY, Thomas

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1930
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Oxford: Limited Editions Club, 1930. Hardcover. About Fine in an intact but Good only slipcase with much wear. Zhenya Gay. Small folio (10" x 13-1/2") bound in canvas-backed Cockerell marbled paper boards. Illustrated with twelve lithographs drawn on the stone by Zhenya Gay and printed on hand-made Kelmscott paper by B. H. Newdigate at the Shakespeare Head Press.… Read more about this item
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1853
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London: John James Tallant, 1853 176pp. Heavy chipping to the spine ends. Spine is missing a piece. Tips are bumped and rubbed. Former owner name and date on the front endpaper. Spine has a slant. Tips and spine ends are heavily bumped and rubbed. Board edges are sunned. A few pages have light foxing at the edges. Text is unmarked.… Read more about this item
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New York: Heritage Press. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1950. Hardcover. Fragile onion skin dust jacket shows toning and has two 1" missing chunks at spine; otherwise intact. Missing "Sandglass" flyer. ; In a Near Fine green marbled slip case with light sunning. Special contents of this edition are copyright, 1950, by The Heritage Press for… Read more about this item
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Published by Collins Clear-Type Press. Hardback. Very Good. Illustrated by Pogany, Willy. Very good condition with no wrapper. Small format, burgundy cloth, gilt titles. B/w plates. Spine and corners slightly bumped and rubbed. Covers slightly grubby and spine slightly faded. Booksellers sticker to front pastedown. Crease to top of front fly-leaf. Page browning.
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London: Macmillan and Company, 1924. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+, bound in 3/4 leather with cloth covered boards, marbled end papers and gilt top page edges. A few small scuffs and bumps to edges of exterior, wear and minor splitting to leather along fold. Interior is unmarked, binding intact. 460 printed pages. Royal 8vo, 9"h x 6"w.
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Oxford: Limited Editions Club, 1930. Hardcover. Slight offsetting to endpapers. About Fine in an intact, Very Good slipcase. Zhenya Gay. Small folio (10" x 13-1/2") bound in canvas-backed Cockerell marbled paper boards. Illustrated with 12 lithographs drawn on the stone by Zhenya Gay and printed on hand-made Kelmscott paper by B. H. Newdigate at the Shakespeare Head Press.… Read more about this item
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London: Printed for Taylor and Hessey, 1822. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. (First printing in book form. Follows its appearance in The London magazine). vi, 206 pp. including half-title. No ads, likely as issued. Bound in the original boards with later title label, since effaced. Very Good+, boards well-worn with exposed tips, binding may have had some work done… Read more about this item
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by de Quincey, Thomas

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London: J. M. Dent, 1910. hard cover. VG. Very good condition with light shelf wear to covers, gift inscription on front endpaper. No dust jacket./No Jacket. Everyman's Library. 17.5 cm.
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Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1856. Hardcover. Book condition is Very Good+ in original, blind stamped cloth, with gilt titles on spine. Minor edge wear to cloth. Small stain to edge of front end page. Text is clean and unmarked. 8vo, 7 1/2"h x 5"w.
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CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER

by Thomas De Quincey

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New York: The Heritage Press, 1950. Hardcover. Zhenya Gay. 77p. A 1/4 black cloth hardcover book with green marbled boards and a matching slipcase. Very good condition; the spine and slipcase are tanned. Otherwise, text clean and binding tight. The slipcase is rubbed along the edges but sturdy. Illustrated with gravures by Zhenya Gay.
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Confessions Of An English Opium-Eater,

by Quincey, Thomas de

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1997. Harmondsworth, England/New York, Penguin Books (= Penguin popular classics), 1997, 8°, 263 S. (Text: Englisch), illustr. original Kartonage (Paperback), untere Ecke des Einbanddeckels mit Knickspur, Einband minimal berieben, sonst schönes, sauberes Exemplar (caleng) Should your order's weight exceed 1kg, we shall need to message you, to recalculate the shipping cost. (= Sollte Ihre Bestellung mehr als 1k wiegen,… Read more about this item
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Edinburgh: Walter Scott, 1886. Hardcover. Good. de Quincey's controversial account of his addiction to opium. With his writings on Rosicrucians and Freemasons, Kant and Richter. Fore edge rough cut. Paper label on spine is mostly missing. Tanning to page edges. Mild occasional spotting within. Binding sound. Good.
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Confessions of an English opium-eater; and, Suspiria de profundis
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by QUINCEY, Thomas de

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1868 Confessions of an English Opium Eater de Quincey Alcohol & Drug Addiction "Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o'clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in ample draperies to the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging audibly without." ― Thomas de Quincey, Confessions… Read more about this item
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