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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Permit needed	Berg Coll+ Birth 1960	Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

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Description

2 volumes : ill.; 22 cm

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Note

Published Autumn 1960, in two “books,” each 80 pages.
No. 3 titled “Stimulants: An Exhibition.”
Issued in saddle- stapled, red card wrappers; book 1 front wrapper of which features enlargement of.drawing from Henry Vizetelly’s Berlin Under the New Empire (London, 1879), showing man and woman dancing in street; book 2 front wrapper of which features enlargement of anonymous drawing of “The Opium Addict,” Mogul Empire, ca. 1616.
Illustrated throughout with 16th- and 19th-c. engravings and 19th-c. advertisements, and a few 20th-c. photographs and newspaper stories.
Contains excerpts from 19th- and 20th-c. treatises and reports on psychedelic drugs.
Designed by Sylvia Topp, with “Special Lettering” by Ray Johnson.
A compendium of drug-related texts taken from a wide variety of sources.
Contributions from poets and writers, including Ted Joans (4-page poem) and excerpt from Allen Ginsberg poem “LSD 25.”

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Call Number

Berg Coll Birth 1960

OCLC

907064443

Title

Birth. No. 3 ("double number").

Imprint

New York : Birth Press, 1960.

Access

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Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997. Contributor

Gould, Joe, 1889-1957. Contributor

Joans, Ted. Contributor

Kupferberg, Tuli. Editor

Topp, Sylvia. Book designer

Research Call Number

Berg Coll Birth 1960