Mushrooms, Russia, and History

by Valentina Pavlovna Wasson, R. Gordon Wasson

$15,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

First edition · Signed

New York: Pantheon Books, 1957. First edition. Signed by both Robert Gordon Wasson and Valentina Pavlovna Wasson on the half title, inscribed to former owners in the year of publication, May 18, 1957. Copy 315 of 510 numbered copies. xxi, 1 , 212, 4 ; xii, 213 - 433, 3 pp. With eighty-two full pages plates and three vignettes. Twenty-six of the plates are watercolors of mushrooms by Jean Henri Fabri. The remaining

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