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[DE QUINCEY, THOMAS.] Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. 1822
[DE QUINCEY, THOMAS.] Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. [iii]-vi, 206 pages; lacks half-title and final ad leaf. 12mo, contemporary 1/2 calf, spine faded; scattered minor spotting. 19th-century signatures of John Clervaux Chaytor. London: Taylor & Hessey, 1822
- Notes: first edition of de quincey''s psychoactive drug classic. "From the very first the impact of the Confessions has been virtually incalculable. A genre of literature was at once established that stands to this day: the drug confession"--Dailey, Phantastica 57. Norman 619 ("the most famous account of drug addiction in English literature").
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