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Hardcover. Good. Hardcover Good Hardcover Good 1932 printing of this book The book is in excellent condition inside and out Not sure if this edition had a dust jacket The pages do Have some light tanning Please see photos Please also see information on Previous owner, Dr Elaine ((Bauer) Campbell This book comes from a personal library collection formerly owned by Dr Elaine (Bauer) Campbell of Sudbury, Massachusetts Dr Campbell was an alumna of the University of Pennsylvania, and Brandeis University where she obtained her PHD She was a scholar and teacher of Caribbean literature and other subjects at Boston University Regis College, Northeastern University and MIT as well as working at the MITRE Institute teaching technical writing Dr Campbell was also an author of and editor of several books including of note: [the] """"""""ESL Resource Book for Engineers and Scientists"""""""", """"""""The Whistling Bird, [Women Writers of the Caribbean]"""""""" and """"""""The Flamboyant Tree: Caribbean Folklore… Read More

Everyman's library,1960, in 12 (18 x 11,5 cm), 272 pages. soft cover. +++++++ Modern edition of this Autobiographical account written by Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859), about his laudanum addiction and its effect on his life. The text was first published anonymously in September and October 1821 in the London Magazine - Good condition..

IDB Productions, 2018-01-01. MP3 CD. New. PRELIMINARY CONFESSIONS</br></br></br></br> These preliminary confessions, or introductory narrative of the youthful adventures which laid the foundation of the writer

New York: D. Appleton, 1900. Illustrated by 4 photogravures, 2 color plates. Aldine edition. (from The World's Great Books). Green Cloth, printed spine tiles, uncut and unopened, t.e.g. 8vo. pp. xxv, 507. VG. Bookplate, sunned spine, head chipped, some soiling, yet internally fine with many sections unopened. Biographical and critical note by Ripley Hitchcock, includes Suspiria De Profundis (Sequel to Confessions of an English Opium-Eater) and the English Mail-Coach and Literary Reminiscences: Charles Lamb, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Society of the Lakes..

Paperback / softback. New.

New York : The Heritage Press, 1950. 1st Edition in this form. Hardback. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth-backed marble boards in slip-case. Spine bands very slightly dulled. The classic Heritage design. An uncommonly good example; corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. ; 77 pages; Physical desc. : [5], ix, 77p, [12]leaves of plates : ill ; 28cm. Subjects; Narcotic addicts - Great Britain - Biography. Opium habit & abuse - England. Authors, English - 19th century - Biography.

HBDJ, 1960, 1ST EDITION THUS, EARLY ISSUE REPRINT, IN Blue ILLUSTRATED Dustjacket OF Beautiful woman with Long Hair Nursing Sick Man, VG+/VG ,12 mo. 272 PGS, NOTES, BACK OF DJ A FEW OF 500 AUTHORS ENDS WITH ZOLA, larger format binding style 4. Full dark blue cloth-covered boards with copper-look spine titling and gilt "EL" in script at tail of spine; pale orange topstain. In light blue dust jacket with image of the author being offered a drink (laudanum?) by a young woman on front cover. --- An excellent copy: clean, unmarked and firmly bound but with small dampstain to top edge. Dust jacket with slight chafing along edges, otherwise bright and protected in removable archival mylar wrapper.; ,He tells of his Opium Dreams, of his experiences with Ann & his sensations under the Drug. Chilling account of an addicts descent into madness or nirvana depending on your outlook. De Quincey's fascinating insight into opium, begun due to an illness, quickly becoming a habit. This is the story of his… Read More