Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
[Thomas De Quincey]
1823
Taylor and Hessey
Second Edition
Description:
De Quincey's most notable work detailing both the pleasures and terrors of drug addiction.
Published anonymously, originally in The London Magazine, De Quincey recounts his early life as an impoverished runaway in London and his subsequent reliance on laudanum, initially taken to alleviate severe stomach pains but eventually transforming into a consuming 10 year long dependency. Rare Second Edition.
Condition:
Fair Condition. Bound in plain blue boards with brown paper to spine. New end papers. Without half title. Rough-cut edges. Contents are tanned and foxed. 6 pages of ads to rear. Gathering B2 in slightly loose, otherwise binding is firm. Boards have some slight staining with mark to front board. Moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners.
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
[Thomas De Quincey]
1823
Taylor and Hessey
Second Edition
Description:
De Quincey's most notable work detailing both the pleasures and terrors of drug addiction.
Published anonymously, originally in The London Magazine, De Quincey recounts his early life as an impoverished runaway in London and his subsequent reliance on laudanum, initially taken to alleviate severe stomach pains but eventually transforming into a consuming 10 year long dependency. Rare Second Edition.
Condition:
Fair Condition. Bound in plain blue boards with brown paper to spine. New end papers. Without half title. Rough-cut edges. Contents are tanned and foxed. 6 pages of ads to rear. Gathering B2 in slightly loose, otherwise binding is firm. Boards have some slight staining with mark to front board. Moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners.
