Item #61831 Soma Divine Mushroom of Immortality; (Ethno-mycological studies No. 1). R. Gordon. With an WASSON, Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty.
Soma Divine Mushroom of Immortality; (Ethno-mycological studies No. 1)
Soma Divine Mushroom of Immortality; (Ethno-mycological studies No. 1)

Soma Divine Mushroom of Immortality; (Ethno-mycological studies No. 1)

New York, NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1968. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto, xiv + 382pp, Original blue cloth with gilt title, etc. to spine, color plates, numbered illustrations and maps, index. Wasson's investigation into the God / plant known to the Ancient Aryan' as Soma - which he identifies as the hallucinogenic mushroom fly-agaric. With an essay on 'The Post-Vedic History of the Soma Plant' by Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty. Very light bump to rear fore-edge, a few light spots on rear board, very light foxing to fore-edge, owner's name on front pastedown under dust jacket flap, - else a tight, bright and unmarked near Fine copy in VG+ dust jacket (dust jacket spine a bit darkened and creased at ends, price clipped). Book is housed in original cardboard slipcase in VG+ condition. General overall light wear and darkening to cardboard slipcase, short closed tear at opening on one side. Item #61831

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