The Hasheesh Eater:

Being Passages from the Life of a Pythagorean

by Fitz Hugh Ludlow

with illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley 

New York:  S.G. Rains Company, 1903  

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD- condition.

• Olive cloth covers have black ink ornamental frame and title. 
• Boards show some scuffing, wear, edgewear.  Corners are bumped and frayed with exposed board.  See photos. 
• Spine has gilt text and is darkened, with a partially effaced label, and crushed, frayed ends.  See photos.
• Binding is secure, some signs of separation at front cover. 
• Pastedowns and feps have some light foxing, toning; first fep is absent.  See photos. 
• Frontispiece is present, with scattered foxing, smudges to margins.  
• Illustrated title page has a small closed tear at bottom edge.  See photos.  
• Interior is gently age-toned, exhibits scattered foxing, some smudges, chips at opening edges, e.g. page 361.  See photos.  
• Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks.
• Text block edges have a few marks, some rubbing. 
• PS2024.0731

371 pages. 5.25 x 7.5 inches

This copy of The Hasheesh Eater, in the publisher's olive cloth with cover design and illustrations taken from Aubrey Beardsley, is overall very good minus AS IS with a missing end paper inside the front cover.  Boards show wear, and some opening edges show chipping; these faults notwithstanding, the text block is well spaced and clear.  The frontispiece, here titled, "Visions of a Hasheesh Eater," is a doctored version of Beardsley's "Of a Neophyte and how the Black Art was revealed unto him by the Fiend Asomuel," and the title page is a doctored version of Beardsley's "The Kiss of Judas". 

First published in 1857, The Hasheesh Eater went through four editions in the late 1850s and early 1860s, each put out by Harper & Brothers.  This 1903 edition from S.G. Rains Company bears the original 1857 Harper copyright; it was the last complete edition until 1970. 

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