Hashish: The Lost Legend (Signed Limited Edition)
Language: English
Published by Process Media / RKS Library Editions, Port Townsend, WA, 2014
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA
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First edition. Hardcover. Number 414 from an edition of 418 deluxe copies. Edited and with an introduction and notes by Ronald K. Siegel, PhD. Features translations by Hermann Schibli (German) Mindle Crystel Gross (Yiddish) and a historical note by Stephen J. Gertz. Includes numerous illustrations. A fine copy flocked boards with color illustration inset into the front cover and in a fine slipcase. Signed by Siegel on the limitation page. An attractive edition.
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- Title
- Hashish: The Lost Legend (Signed Limited Edition)
- Author
- SIEGEL, Ronald K. (editor)
- Publisher
- Process Media / RKS Library Editions, Port Townsend, WA
- Publication year
- 2014
- Signed
- Signed
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 193417050X
- ISBN 13
- 9781934170502
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Item weight
- 3.375 pounds
- Seller catalogs
- Non-Fiction
Here is a lost illustrated masterpiece, a book so rare and sought-after that only two copies can be found in world libraries.
- For the first time this classic work on a forgotten Arabian legend has been translated into English.
- This illustrated novel is presented as a "pictorial opera" of love, hashish, and tragedy in the time of Victorian erotica, and it contains the first known illustrations and descriptions of true hashish hallucinations.
- This high quality case-bound and slipcased limited edition reproduces all fifty original erotic illustrations and colorful extras by illustrator Gottfried Sieben, and it is limited to only 418 copies all signed by Ronald K. Siegel.
- This book will appeal to readers of Fitz Hugh Ludlow's Hasheesh Eater, Charles Baudelaire's Artificial Paradise, High Times magazine, and marijuana users everywhere.
Fritz Lemmermayer was born in Vienna in 1857, became a writer, poet, and journalist, and maintained close relationships with Gustav Mahler and Richard Wagner.
Ronald K. Siegel is a recognized world authority on drugs and drug literature. A former research professor at UCLA, he is the author of numerous books including the critically acclaimed Intoxication. Siegel was featured in several Time magazine cover stories, and has been a consultant to presidential commissions and the World Health Organization. He is currently curator of the RKS Library of Drug Literature, one of the largest such libraries in the world.
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About the Author
Stephen J. Gertz is an historian and bibliographer of erotic literature and the literature of drugs. As a writer he has contributed to Sin-A-Rama: Sleaze Sex Paperbacks of the Sixties (2005), Everything You Know About Sex Is Wrong (2005), the Los Angeles Times, and The Huffington Post. He is the author of Dope Menace. The Sensational World of Drug Paperbacks, 1900-1975 (2008). He resides in Los Angeles where he works as an antiquarian bookseller and founding contributor to the blog Booktryst.
Fritz Lemmermayer was born in Vienna in 1857 and studied history and philosophy. He became a writer, poet, and journalist. A central and well-respected figure in literary circles, Lemmermayer maintained close relationships with writers and intellectuals, and was a friend of Gustav Mahler and Richard Wagner who he admired and visited often.
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Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA
Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
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