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hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. 1961 hardcover stated 1st printing. The best I can say about the dust jacket is that it is still here, laid in, in pieces,with lots of tears and chipping. Book itself has fraying on top of spine and other edges, staining/sunning, top corners a little bumped, tiny dent/tear on bottom of back board, light tanning, soil on edge, text clean, binding tight.

hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: good: mild edge wear, clipped. first edition. 8vo 385pp. stated first printing. from front flap: "Here, for the first time in one volume, a collection of drug dreams, raptures and ravings, experiments and excesses--voyages "out of this world" charted by Hashish, Heroin, Morphine, Opium, Mescaline, Peyote, LSD and many other drugs. Almost forty accounts in the first person--some as classical as Baudelaire, De Quincey, and Havelock Ellis; others as contemporary as Alexander King, Mezz Mezzrow and Jean Cocteau---record the transfiguring or shattering experiences of those who dared to alter their consciousness, to reorder their perceptions through drugs." #01152. very good+: mild toning to endpapers, mild age/shelf wear to boards and spine, text clean, binding tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Stated first printing. No writing or marking. Binding very good. Fading along the very tops of the boards. Top of the spine is bumped. Dust jacket is not price clipped, has edge and spine wear, and is in a protective mylar jacket.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. The first printing, 384 pages. "Here, for the first time in one volume, a collection of drug dreams, raptures and raving, experiments and excesses- voyages "out of this world" charted by hashish, heroin, morphine, opium, mescaline, peyote, LSD, and many other drugs." FINE- HARDCOVER, GOOD DUST JACKET. Dust jacket protected with a clear plastic acid-free jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Second printing. 385pp. Mass market paperback. Pages moderately toned, light toning and soiling on wraps with a tiny chip on the spine, very good. Evergreen Black Cat book BC-62.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Fine copy in near fine dust jacket with traces of wear at the spine head and old price sticker at foot of rear panel. Nearly 30 contributions by Cocteau, Burroughs, Alex. King, Crowley, Baudelaire, Holiday, Mezzrow, Ludlow, Wasson and many more, writing about heroin and other opiates, LSD, hash, cocaine, mescaline and more. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 385 pp.

Softcover. Condition: Poor. A rough reading copy with heavily worn wraps, outer edge of pageblock worn & discoloured. Text pages are unmarked.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First American Edition. First printing stated on copyright page. Attractive, clean book printed years before the drug culture took over the American psyche. Featuring previously unpublished material, this anthology also includes personal reports from Theophile Gautier, Billie Holiday, William Burroughts, Jean Cocteau etc. In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

First edition. 8vo. [xi], 385 pp. Cloth in dustwrapper, very good. (17974). Aldous Huxley, William S. Burroughs, Havelock Ellis, Jean Cocteau, etc.

Paperback. Condition: New. The central theme of this book is the interaction between the curvature of a complete Riemannian manifold and its topology and global geometry. The first five chapters are preparatory in nature. They begin with a very concise introduction to Riemannian geometry, followed by an exposition of Toponogov's theorem-the first such treatment in a book in English. Next comes a detailed presentation of homogeneous spaces in which the main goal is to find formulas for their curvature. A quick chapter of Morse theory is followed by one on the injectivity radius. Chapters 6-9 deal with many of the most relevant contributions to the subject in the years 1959 to 1974. These include the pinching (or sphere) theorem, Berger's theorem for symmetric spaces, the differentiable sphere theorem, the structure of complete manifolds of non-negative curvature, and finally, results about the structure of complete manifolds of non-positive curvature. Emphasis is given to the phenomenon of rigidity, namely, the fact that although the conclusions which hold under the assumption of some strict inequality on curvature can fail when the strict inequality on curvature can fail when the strict inequality is relaxed to a weak one, the failure can happen only in a restricted way, which can usually be classified up to isometry. Much of the material, particularly the last four chapters, was essentially state-of-the-art when the book first appeared in 1975. Since then, the subject has exploded, but the material covered in the book still represents an essential prerequisite for anyone who wants to work in the field.

hardback. Condition: Near Fine. First-person accounts of addicts, writers, scientists and others. Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by ED. 1st ed. NY (Orion) 1961. About fine in dust wrapper.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 162 pages. 5.98x0.98x9.02 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Near fine in a priceclipped Nf. dj. (Offsetting to cloth covers. A few short edge tears in dj.) Features work by William S. Burroughs, Aldous Huxley, Billie Holiday & many others.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. illustrated edition. 161 pages. 10.25x7.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Condition: New.

Grove Press, new York 1965. Reprint. 386 pages. paperback. Near fine-.

Paperback. Condition: New. The central theme of this book is the interaction between the curvature of a complete Riemannian manifold and its topology and global geometry. The first five chapters are preparatory in nature. They begin with a very concise introduction to Riemannian geometry, followed by an exposition of Toponogov's theorem-the first such treatment in a book in English. Next comes a detailed presentation of homogeneous spaces in which the main goal is to find formulas for their curvature. A quick chapter of Morse theory is followed by one on the injectivity radius. Chapters 6-9 deal with many of the most relevant contributions to the subject in the years 1959 to 1974. These include the pinching (or sphere) theorem, Berger's theorem for symmetric spaces, the differentiable sphere theorem, the structure of complete manifolds of non-negative curvature, and finally, results about the structure of complete manifolds of non-positive curvature. Emphasis is given to the phenomenon of rigidity, namely, the fact that although the conclusions which hold under the assumption of some strict inequality on curvature can fail when the strict inequality on curvature can fail when the strict inequality is relaxed to a weak one, the failure can happen only in a restricted way, which can usually be classified up to isometry. Much of the material, particularly the last four chapters, was essentially state-of-the-art when the book first appeared in 1975. Since then, the subject has exploded, but the material covered in the book still represents an essential prerequisite for anyone who wants to work in the field.

First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.25cm); two-tone gray cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; xii, 385, [3]pp. About Fine in a Very Good+ dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $5.95), with light wear to extremities, several short tears and attendant creases, notably absent the usual sunning to spine. Presumably the second-state jacket, with Mezz Mezzrow's name correctly spelled on rear panel and front flap. Contains writings by William S. Burroughs, Billie Holiday, Jean Cocteau, Havelock Ellis, Thomas De Quincey, Allen Ginsberg, and others.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Printing [Stated]. xi, [1], 385, [3] pages. Footnotes. References. DJ has some wear and soiling and is in a plastic sleeve. Name and address of previous owner stamped on fep. The previous owner was E. Kurt Rottler of York, PA. This is believed to be the same E. Kurt Rottler whose bequest funds The Rottler Award for Excellence in the Visual Arts that is annually made through the York Art Association. Rottler was a devoted member and President of the Board of Directors of the York Art Association from 1965 through 1970. This work covers Hemp, Opium, Peyote, Mushrooms and LSD. Among the first-person account contributors are: Charles Baudelaire, Thomas De Quincey, Jean Cocteau, William Burroughs, Billie Holiday, Havelock Ellis, Aldous Huxley, and Allen Ginsberg. Derived from a Kirkus review: This is the first collection of "the writings of travelers into drug-land", a documentation of sensation when under the influence of "hallucinogens", formerly known as phantastics, and it ranges from snuff (which one experimenter claims is the strongest) to LSD, with hemp and opium providing the largest body of evidence. The editor has provided comments on each contributor, as well as the drug used, and many great writers have recorded this experience, with its special excitation and iridescence, the spiraling vertigo of euphoria which often plunges into horror, in words. There's the opulence of Gautier's world of hashish; Baudelaire's "accursed sweetmeat" and the exaggerated perceptions induced: De Quincey and Havelock Ellis, Huxley and Cocteau ("It is rare for an addict to forsake opium. Opium forsakes him, ruining everything"); jazz artists Mezz Mezzerow (who found no bad after effects "outside of a 20 month jail sentence") and Billie Holiday; Allen Ginsberg and Alexander King; the account of the banker, Wasson, who discovered hallucinogenic mushrooms; a medical doctors' symposium; etc., etc. including a section on cures and the attendant agony. This does represent some of the truest and best writing this flowering of evil has produced.

Pocket. Good. Looks a bit worn. Name + date on ffep. Yellowing. No notes/underlining. 385 pp.

First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.25cm); two-tone gray cloth-covered boards, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; xii, 385, [3]pp. About Fine in a Very Good+ dustwrapper, price-clipped, with light wear to extremities. Presumably the first-state jacket, with Mezz Mezzrow's name misspelled on rear panel and front flap. Contains writings by William S. Burroughs, Billie Holiday, Jean Cocteau, Havelock Ellis, Thomas De Quincey, Allen Ginsberg, and others.