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COLE, Henry G. Confessions of an American Opium Eater. From Bondage to Freedom. Boston: James H. Earle, 1895.
8vo. Portrait frontispiece from a photograph of the author, numerous illustrations by Arthur Gearfield Learned. Original turquois cloth lettered in gilt and burgundy (few spots of soiling to upper cover, else fine); silk slipcase with Asian motifs.
FIRST EDITION, laid in with the author’s visiting card. “[A] memoir of a morphine addict saved by Christ. Although he calls himself an opium eater in the manner of De Quincey, the author usually injected morphine” (Phantastica 45, this copy).
[With:] another copy in a variant brown cloth and a second edition in the rare printed wrappers. Both Horowitz high spots.