The Sacred Mushroom & the Cross: A Study of the Nature and Origins of Christianity within the Fertility Cults of the Ancient Near East

by John Marco Allegro

$450 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1970. First American edition, first printing. xii, 349 pp. w/ two color photos. Bound in publisher's black cloth with gilt spine lettering. Near Fine with faint soiling to boards in Near Fine dust jacket, worn at spine ends, a little toned, unclipped 7.95 . Uncommon. A cult classic by the archaeologist who popularized the Dead Sea Scrolls, maintaining through a complex

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