[New York]: 5th Ave. Marijuana Parade Coalition, [197-]. An 8 ½” x 11” offset-printed flyer advertising a march to “stop the witch hunts!” and to “end job discrimination against tokers.” The march was sponsored by the Yippie front group, the 5th Ave. Marijuana Parade Coalition. A Fine copy. More
[New York: ARM 14], 1970. Tabloid format printed on newsprint, [8] pp, illus. Center fold, newsprint slightly browning, tiny splits at fold, about Near Fine. Three copies found in WorldCat (Univ. of VA, Wisconsin and Kansas). Scarce. A presumably one-off anti-drug publication by the unidentified ARM 14 in New York..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, ©1970. Second printing. 8vo.; blue cloth pictorially embossed, spine lettered in silver, red topstain, 201 pp, dust jacket. A Fine copy in Fine dust jacket. An autobiographical novel about the author’s drug addiction set in Manhattan during the summer of the Newark riots (1967). When..... More
![Consequences [INSCRIBED ~ John Haynes Holmes' copy]. Julia Ellsworth FORD, John Haynes HOLMES](/pictures/thumb/03118.jpg?v=1509131659)
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1929. First edition. 12mo. (19 cm). 1/2 leather, 1/2 textured paper with gilt-stamped spine and five raised bands; top edge gilt; xv, [1], [2], 3-342 pp. INSCRIBED by the author on the dedication page to John Haynes Holmes who provides the introduction..... More
Columbus, Ohio: Charles E. Merrill Publishing Company, 1971. First edition. 8vo; perfect-bound, laminated wrappers, viii, 302 pp. A compendium of scholarly, scientific articles on marijuana broken up into four main sections: Its Nature and Use, Value Perspectives, Research Reports, and The Question of Control. Wear to wrappers with laminate chipping..... More
n.p., ca. 1967. One sheet printed in black & red and folded to make 4 pp. An alarmist report on the increase of psychedelic drug use and the doctors and scientists pushing this agenda. The author argues: "Hallucinogenic mushrooms and pathogenic micro-organisms have been introduced into the Curriculum of the..... More
[Memphis?]: N.A.P.A., [ca. 1964]. A 6” x 9” handbill printed on newsprint calling for a boycott of Stag beer (“That S in Stag Is For Segregation”) due to its alleged segregationist hiring practice. Mystery surrounds the group, “N.A.P.A.” listed at the bottom and the historical details of this boycott. We..... More
New York: Random House, 1953. First edition. Octavo (22 cm). 3/4 grey paper stamped in blue & red over grey cloth boards; 246 pp.; dust jacket. Stated first printing. Published the same year as William Burroughs' Junkie, the pseudonymously authored I Was a Drug Addict begins in 1910 in Bank..... More