The Drug Experience: First-Person Accounts of Addicts, Writers, Scientists and Others, 1961

New York City: Orion Press (book, anthology, 1st), 1961.
9" x 6.25" x 1.375", hardcover in dust-jacket, unclipped, ~398 pages.

The Drug Experience: First-Person Accounts of Addicts, Writers, Scientists and Others, edited by David Ebin and published in 1961.  

William S. Burroughs is represented in this anthology of writings about drug experiences under both "William Lee" and as William Burroughs. The "William Lee" contribution is an excerpt from Junkie, pp. 167-175.  William Burroughs (as himself) contributes "Deposition: Testimony Concerning a Sickness" (and the postscript "Post Script ... Wouldn't You?"), pp. 207-214.

M&M B6.
Shoaf II.6.

Contents: 

• David Ebin: introduction
• Théophile Gautier: from Revue des Deux Mondes, February 1, 1846
• Charles Baudelaire: from The Essence of Laughter and Other Essays, Journals and Letters:
• "The Seraphic Theatre"
• "Man Become God"
•  "Moral"
• Bayard Taylor: "The Visions of Hasheesh" from The Land of the Saracen or Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily and Spain
• Anonymous: "The Hasheesh Eater" from Putnam's Magazine, September 1856
• Fitzhugh Ludlow: from The Hasheesh Eater:
• "The Night Entrance" 
• "The Kingdom of the Dream"
• Mezz Mezzrow: from Really the Blues
• Colin Turnbull: previously unpublished memoir
• Thomas De Quincey: from Confessions of an English Opium Eater
• William Blair: from An Opium-Eater in America
• Jean Cocteau: from Opium: Diary of a Cure
• Leroy Street: from I Was a Drug Addict
• William S. Burroughs:
• from Junkie (as William Lee)
• "Deposition: Testimony Concerning a Sickness", from Evergreen Review, January-February 1960
• Barney Ross: from No Man Stands Alone
• Alexander King: from Mine Enemy Grows Older
• Aleister Crowley: from The Diary of a Drug Fiend
• Billie Holiday: from Lady Sings the Blues
• Havelock Ellis: "Mescal: A New Artificial Paradise" from The Contemporary Review
• J. S. Slotkin: from "Menomini Peyotism" from Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, v. 42, n. 3, 1952
• Aldous Huxley: from The Doors of Perception
• R. C. Zaehner: from Mysticism, Sacred and Profane: An Inquiry into some Varieties of the Religious Experience
• Christopher Mayhew: "An Excursion Out of Time", from Observer, October 28, 1956
• Allen Ginsberg: from Birth, Issue 3, 1960
• Gordon Wasson: from "The Hallucinogenic Mushrooms of Mexico: An Adventure in Ethnomycological Exploration", from Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences, February, 1959
• Daniel Breslaw: "A Year of Drug Taking" (previously unpublished)
• Paul Mosher: previously unpublished memoir of LSD-25 taking
• A Symposium from "The Use of LSD in Psychotherapy", edited by Dr. Harold A. Abramson