Narcomania: On Heroin - Softcover

NARCOMANIA - On Heroin

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Book Description Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. First Edition. First impression of the first edition. A paperback original. ***Very good in colour-illustrated thin card wrappers. Covers have some marks and creasing commensurate with age and handling [see scans]. Slight foxing to the spine and covers. Back cover slightly creased near the spine. No reading creases to the spine. No inscriptions. Paper slightly tanned. Pages clean. No tears. Spine tight. 198mm x 125mm. 176 pages including a six page Index at the rear. ***Contents: Foreword, Acknowledgements, 1. Cough Mixture and Race Mixing, 2. The Welfare of the State, 3. The Orient Within, 4. Morbid Varieties, 5. Dora, 6. The Post-War Boom, 7. A Siamese Cat in the Council Flat, 8. Da Da Da, 9. Narcomania. ***'Heroin inspires in people a unique feeling of fear and dread. Hundreds of newspaper columns are devoted to "the crisis" and millions of pounds spent by the government in attempts to combat the problem. Why is heroin so powerfully significant, when other social evils - poverty, alcohol - cause misery and death on a far larger scale? ***Narcomania deals with this mystery surrounding drug addiction. It looks at opium dens, and the Chinese; the literature - Coleridge, Sherlock Holmes, Fu Manchu; the "drug fiend"'; psychoanalytical theory; the overwhelming importance of society's attitudes; Boy George; today's heroin panic. ***Narcomania looks back at history and attacks and assesses current thinking. It steers a way through the myths and morass, and the very real problems, of heroin and addiction.' (Quote from rear wrapper blurb). ***A nice copy of this uncommon paperback original, dealing with drug culture and society's reaction to the problem of narcotics. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Seller Inventory # PB125

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