General overall light wear and darkening to cardboard slipcase, short closed tear at opening on one side. Book is housed in original cardboard slipcase in VG+ condition. Very light bump to rear fore-edge, a few light spots on rear board, very light foxing to fore-edge, owner's name on front pastedown under dust jacket flap, - else a tight, bright and unmarked near Fine copy in VG+ dust jacket (dust jacket spine a bit darkened and creased at ends, price clipped). With an essay on 'The Post-Vedic History of the Soma Plant' by Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty. Wasson's investigation into the God / plant known to the Ancient Aryan' as Soma - which he identifies as the hallucinogenic mushroom fly-agaric. to spine, color plates, numbered illustrations and maps, index. Small quarto, xiv + 382pp, Original blue cloth with gilt title, etc. New York, NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1968. Soma Divine Mushroom of Immortality (Ethno-mycological studies No. With an essay by Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty.
I will be listing quite a bit more in the coming weeks, including many similar titles.WASSON, R. If you would prefer a specific shipping service, please let me know and I will accommodate your request.International shipping is available and I do not charge any handling fees for international shipping, so you pay cost only.Check out my other items for more great titles, many scarce first editions, and many titles from this author and similar authors.
All my items are shipped properly, in sturdy boxes with proper wrapping.Domestic shipping is free. If you need any additional information or pictures, please do not hesitate to ask and I'll get those for you right away. I try to always put up as many photos as I can so that you can see the exact book you will receive and determine the condition for yourself from every angle. Please read description and look at photos before buyingThe pictures are of the exact book you will be receiving. Blue Cloth - 2 plates after Poluzzi, 22 tipped in plates, 3 maps, 1 folding chart. The book has some very general shelf and handling wear, just a little, rubbing and bumping as would be expected. Includes original publisher's slipcase, which does have a slight split in it along the top edge, but the slipcase is almost never found with this book, so it is an extra anyway. Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality, by R. Spine is straight and tight, nearly like a new book considering the age. The Wondrous Mushroom explored the ancient Vedic intoxicant soma. The content of those Mysteries is, together with the identity of Indias sacred soma plant, one of the two best kept secrets in history, and this book is the.
Soma Divine Mushroom of Immortality - by Wasson - 1968 Harcourt Hardcover (Printed in Italy) First Edition/Print - $15.00 original price intact - Long out of printNOT ex-lib, NO markings at all - Extremely Rare Title, Scarce in any condition, very in this condition with slipcaseThis book is in excellent shape. Signed limited first edition of Robert Gordon Wassons important contribution to the.
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