The Sacred Mushroom Seeker: Essays for R. Gordon Wasson

Pp. 283; 20 full page color plates, 16 text-figures and maps, numerous un-numbered black-and-white photos in the text.  Publisher’s original dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, color pictorial dust jacket, endpaper maps of Mexico showing key locations, sm 4to (11 x 8 inches).  Ethnomycological Studies no. 11 - Historical, Ethno- & Economic Botany Series volume 4.  The foreword is by Richard Evans Schultes.  This collection of essays honors the life and work of R. Gordon Wasson (1898-1986), the amateur mycologist whose eloquent scholarly writings on hallucinogenic mushrooms pioneered the field of ethnomycology.  No ownership marks and no signs of use.