[Rarebooks] FS: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 1823

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DE QUINCEY, THOMAS. CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER. London:
Taylor  and  Hessey  1823.  Third Edition.  Third  Edition,  published
anonymously,  bound in contemporary diced Russia leather with  marbled
edges  and  endpapers; iv, 206 pages. First published in book form  in
1822,  De  Quincey's autobiographical study of his opium addiction  is
the  first  literary text in English to chart the evolution of a  drug
addict.  In small script on the rule below the title on the title page
is  written  "De Quincey" in a hand very similar to the  author's  but
very  likely not his. There are no advertisements bound at the end  of
this  copy,  as  were at least with the first two  editions.  Recently
rebacked  retaining nearly all of the original spine but not the spine
label. Near Fine                                               $450.00

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