Author: Kurt Beringer
Title: Der Meskalinrausch: Seine Geschichte und Erscheinungsweise
Description: Julius Springer, Berlin, 1927. First Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition. 26cm x 18cm. vi, 316, [2] pages. Rebound in quarter black cloth, marbled papered boards, leather label, gilt lettering. Text is in German. First edition in a quarter cloth binding of probably the greatest book on peyote and its active ingredient, mescaline. Published after years of experimentation on humans and animals in the 1920s it includes a 200 page appendix of trip reports of thirty-two subjects, mostly comprised of Beringer's colleagues and medical students at the Heidelberg University psychiatric clinic. Not yet translated into English this work "gives a clear cut description of the psychic and somatic symptoms..of mescaline" (HOLMSTEDT, Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs). Previously rebound without the original wrappers. Rubbing to spine label. Ex-Institut fur Anthropologia und Erbbiologie der Universitat Wurzburg, minor annotation to title, stamp to foreword and first page, no other library markings. Very minor general wear. Shipped Weight: .87 kilos.

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