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WILLIAMS, Fred V. The Hop-Heads. Personal Experiences Among the Users of “Dope” in the San Francisco Underworld. San Francisco: Walter N. Brunt, 1920.
8vo. Several plates after photographs including frontispiece. Original yellow pictorial wrappers (spine recased and reinforced at extreme ends, some faint creases near lower fore-corners); folding cloth chemise and slipcase.
FIRST PUBLISHED EDITION, appearing first in the San Francisco Daily News under the title “Dope”. Considered “one of two of the most extraordinary drug paperbacks issued during the 1920s… it is now a legendary rarity” (Gertz). Journalist Fred V. Williams went in disguise “among the pitiful slaves of cocaine and heroin and morphine, and for the first time told the real facts concerning these outcasts of the night” (from the introduction). Gertz, Dope Menace: The Sensational World of Drug Paperbacks, p. 30. A Horowitz high spot.