On the Trail of the Opium Poppy
Sir Alexander Hosie. On the Trail of the Opium Poppy: A Narrative of Travel in the Chief Opium-Producing Provinces of China. Boston: Small Maynard & Company, Publishers, 1914. First edition.
Two octavo volumes. Vol. I, 300pp. Illustrated, frontispiece, b/w photographs, fold-out map. Vol II, 308pp. Illustrated, frontispiece, b/w photographs, fold-out map. Publisher’s green cloth hardcover boards, stamped in gilt to spines and front covers.
From The Ronald K. Siegel Collection of Books on Psychoactive Plants and Drugs.
Extremities rubbed and bumped, with abrasions to spine heads and tails. Light even toning throughout. Vol. I, circular damp-stain to front. Vol. II, offsetting from a fortune-cookie slip laid-in between pp. 204-5. Very good. JBS-122. Item #122
Price: $1,500.00