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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, without the glassine dust jackets, spine ends slightly darkened; contents clean; publisher's linen slipcase, corners slightly frayed, spine panel darkened. 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 503 of 510 sets, printed at the Officina Bodoni.
