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WASSON, VALENTINA PAVLOVNA and R. GORDON. Mushrooms, Russia, and History. 82 plates, some in color; folding table in Volume 2 rear cover pocket. 2 volumes. Folio, 319x238 mm, original linen; contents clean; glassine dust jackets (the first missing portions of spine panel); publisher's linen slipcase. New York: Pantheon Books, (1957)
first edition of a comparative study of the lore of mushrooms and their use for culinary, medicinal, homicidal, and ritual purposes in Russia, Western Europe, Mesoamerica, and other societies.number 404 of 510 sets, printed at the Officina Bodoni.
