Mushrooms, Russia, and History

by Valentina Pavlovna Wasson, R. Gordon Wasson

$13,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

New York: Pantheon Books, 1957. First edition. Copy 494 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 collotypes were printed by Fratelli Alinari. Fold-out chart in rear pocket. All plates with captioned tissue guards. Two folio volumes bound in publisher's

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