[DRUG FICTION]. A group of 7 works, including:
ALCOTT, Louisa May. A Modern Mephistopheles and a Whisper in the Dark. Boston: Roberts Bros., 1889. Original mustard cloth gilt. FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM, of Alcott’s only novel with a drug theme. BAL 219. -- [SMITH, Marjorie E.]. God Have Mercy on Me! From the Diaries of a Lost Soul. New York: The Macaulay Company, [1931]. 8vo. Original red-lettered blue cloth; original unclipped dust jacket (some minor chipping at extreme ends and corners, light edgewear). Provenance: Elizabeth S. Kinsey(?), ownership signature on ffep. FIRST EDITION in the rare dust jacket. “The actual diaries of a prostitute and dope fiend are continued…How dope, gin and vice drag her down their path to extreme and abandoned misery” (from the front flap). -- ZANUCK, Darryl Francis. Habit and Other Short Stories. Los Angeles: Times-Mirror Press, 1923. 8vo. Original red-lettered black cloth; original price-clipped dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. A fine copy. -- SLEIGH, Bernard. The Gates of Horn. London: Aldine House, 1926. Illustrated by Bernard Sleigh. Original gilt-lettered blue cloth. Chapter 5 describes mescaline trips which predates Huxley’s “Doors of Deception” by nearly thirty years. -- ROHMER, Sax. White Velvet. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1936. Original yellow-orange cloth, yellow top stain; original unclipped dust jacket (edgewear). FIRST EDITION. A reporter and secret operative attempt to destroy an international drug ring.
And others. Together, 7 works in 7 volumes, all 8vo.