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Published by Yale University Press, 1992
ISBN 10: 0300052669ISBN 13: 9780300052664
Seller: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
Published by Yale University Press, 1992
ISBN 10: 0300052669ISBN 13: 9780300052664
Seller: GreatBookPrices, Columbia, MD, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: New.
Published by Yale University Press, 1992
ISBN 10: 0300052669ISBN 13: 9780300052664
Seller: GreatBookPricesUK, Castle Donington, DERBY, United Kingdom
Book
Condition: New.
Published by Yale University Press, 1992
ISBN 10: 0300052669ISBN 13: 9780300052664
Seller: GreatBookPricesUK, Castle Donington, DERBY, United Kingdom
Book
Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.
Published by Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 1986
Seller: Xochi's Bookstore & Gallery, Truth or consequences, NM, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Fine (New). Dust Jacket Condition: Fine w/Fine Slipcase. Limited Signed & Numbered First Edition. 257pp.; HB quarter-bound dk.blue&dk.blue leather w/gilt-blk.tree&gilt lightning cover; fine condition--As New-- w/clean,tight pgs. DJ clear,thick plastic; fine condition. Slipcase; dk.blue cloth; fine condition. Psycoactive mushrooms and their role in the religious rituals of ancient Greece, Eurasia, and Mesoamerica. illus. (w/many tipped-in). Number 259 of 274 numbered copies. signed by Carl Ruck. Ethnomycological Studies No.10. # 246 on spine. Signed & Inscribed By Photogr.
Published by Yale University Press, New Haven, 1988
Seller: DIAMOND HOLLOW BOOKS / MILES BELLAMY, ANDES, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Limited edition, 1986. Hardcover. Quarto in custom slipcase. 258pp. Quarter navy leather over deep blue boards. Gilt lettering to spine and gilt rules to spine edge, gilt lightning strike over black tree illustration on upper board. Top edge gilt, tipped in colour frontis and 26 plates, many of which are munted and in colour, other b&w illustrations, references, notes. Printed by Stamperia Valdonega of Italy. Edition limited to 300 copies of which 274 were numbered and 26 were 'hors commerce" and lettered A-Z; this copy is numbered 96. The first deluxe edition of this serious study by the author of 'Soma' - with essays by others looking at aspects of the use of entheogens (psychoactive substances used in a spiritual context) in Asian religions and the Western classical tradition. A lovely near perfect copy with just the faintest trace of age, thus about Fine in Near Fine very lightly rubbed custom acetate dust jacket and matching clothbound slipcase. (Note the volume is very tight in the slipcase). Not to be confused with the 1988 Yale trade edition, this one bears no ISBN. Wasson.
Published by Yale University Press, E-334, 1988
ISBN 10: 0300038771ISBN 13: 9780300038774
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 4to. Published by Yale University Press, New Haven, CT. 1986. 257 pgs. Edition limited to 300 copies of which 274 were numbered and 26 were 'hors commerce" and lettered A-Z. This copy is unumbered and is not a lettered copy. Ethnomycological Studies, No. 10. Slipcased in blue cloth. Slipcaase lightly rubbed and worn. Bound in dark blue cloth and matching 1/2 dark blue leather. With titles present to the spine and illustrated design present to the front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Former owner's name inked on title-page; same owner's circular stamp embossed on lower corner of following leaf. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. This fascinating book discusses the role played by psychoactive mushrooms in the religious rituals of ancient Greece, Eurasia, and Mesoamerica. R. Gordon Wasson, an internationally known ethnomycologist who was one of the first to investigate how these mushrooms were venerated and employed by different native peoples, here joins with three other scholars to discuss the evidence for his discoveries about these fungi, which he has called entheogens, or "god generated within." EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.