Believe It Lsd: My Problem Child, Reflections On Sacred Drugs, Mysticism, And Science, Albert Hofmann, 1983, Sc, Vg. Perfect For Gifting [Qulp83nJ]

Hofmann, Albert, and Jonathan Ott. Los Angeles: J.P. Tarcher, Inc., 1983.

English, Very Good, SC, 8vo, 8 1/4" x 5 1/2",  [iv] xiii, 210 + 6 pp.

ISBN: 0874772567

Black pictorial perfect bound softcover, featuring color photograph of Swiss chemist, Albert Hofmann (1906-2008) to front panel, white, black, and pink lettering to front, back, and spine, minor crease to back panel, some wear to edges, light soiling to front panel, otherwise, clean, tightly bound, and unmarked throughout. [iv] xiii, 210 + 6 pp., replete with black-and-white images. Includes Translator's Preface by Jonathan Ott, Foreword, 11 chapters: "How LSD Originated," "LSD in Animal Experiments and Biological Research," "Chemical Modifications of LSD," "Use of LSD in Psychiatry," "From Remedy to Inebriant," "The Mexican Relatives of LSD," "Radiance from Ernst Junger," "Meeting with Aldous Huxley," "Correspondence with the Poet-Physician Walter Vogt," "Various Visitors," "LSD Experience and Reality," and Appendix. From the back panel: "In LSD: My Problem Child we follow Dr. Hofmann on his journey of discovery: the painstaking research, the courageous self-experimentation, the meetings with such notables as Aldous Huxley, Timothy Leary, mycologist R. Gordon Wasson, and novelist Ernst Junger. This little-known story of the birth of the psychedelic age will fascinate anyone who has used LSD and wondered about its origins and the mind and circumstances that created it."