Beautifully designed by Bill Smith, this gorgeous oversize quality paperback from Feral House (the folks who brought you FRATERNITY OF SHAME and THE MOLOCH OF MARIHUANA) is a hoot and a stumble down memory lane. While we now enjoy this exploitative genre for its campy kitsch, gloriously bad writing and outlandish misinformation, drug paperbacks were once an important medium with a perversely seductive quality. This book collects hundreds of fabulously lurid covers, from turn-of-the century tomes about the opium trade to the beatnik glories of reefer smoking and William S. Burroughs' JUNKIE to the spaced-out psychedelic '60s.
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