Soma: Divine Mushroom of Immortality

by R. Gordon Wasson

$12,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition · Signed

The Hague: Mouton, 1968. First edition, deluxe limited European issue, signed by the author though not called for. A presentation copy of Wasson’s famous work on Amanita muscaria as the divine mushroom, inscribed by him, This copy of my book is for Stella, in admiration and with love - Gordon 23, January 1972. The inscribee, Stella Kramrisch, would later collaborate with Wasson on Persephone's Quest,

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