The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness
by WATTS, Alan W
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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London, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Pantheon Books, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Good. xix, 94 p. 25 cm. B&w illustrations. Black cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Tears and chips to edges of jacket, esp. upper spine, with rubbing to panels. Book itself has a little discolouration to rear board.
Foreword by Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert of Harvard University Psychology Department, at the time of the books publication involved in Harvard's Center for Research in Personality. A classic account of the psychedelic experience, the text is an exploration of the insight that the consciousness-changing drugs LSD, mescaline, and psilocybin can have on the human psyche.
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- Bookseller
- Attic Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 148450
- Title
- The Joyous Cosmology: Adventures in the Chemistry of Consciousness
- Author
- WATTS, Alan W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Date Published
- 1962
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Counterculture, LSD, Mescaline, Psilocybin, Psychedelics
- Bookseller catalogs
- Counterculture;
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