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Fitz Hugh Ludlow
The Hasheesh Eater: Being Passages from the Life of a Pythagorean
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$750
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New York, Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1857
8vo. 371 pp. Publisher's brown blind-stamped cloth with gilt decoration and lettering on spine; pale yellow endpapers. Splitting of cloth along rear joint with small loss; partial splitting along front joint; split across center spine; wear to spine ends and corners; slight lean; owner name in pencil (twice); else very good. The joints and hinges are sound.
Ludlow's autobiographical work chronicling his personal experiences with hashish—a concentrated cannabis extract imported from the Middle East—detailing the drug's hallucinogenic effects, visions, and philosophical insights during his college years at Union College in the 1850s. Throughout the book, Ludlow colorfully describes his psychedelic journey that led to extended reflections on religion, philosophy, medicine, and culture. The first book on cannabis in English and the first full-length work of American drug literature.
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