"The Book of Grass" by George Andrews and Simon Vinkenoog (1967)

London, England: Peter Owen (book, anthology), 1967.
8.625" x 5.75" x 1", 242 pages, hardcover with dust jacket.

The Book of Grass: An Anthology on Indian Hemp, compiled and edited by George Andrews and Simon Vinkenoog, as published in a hardcover edition by Peter Owen (London, England) in 1967. Jacket design by Keith Cunningham.

William S. Burroughs contributes a statement on "Cannabis and Opiates" on pages 207–208. 

Maynard & Miles B28. Shoaf II.34 [for the US edition]

Contents:

• Introduction
• Acknowledgments and Sources
• Part One: "Traces in the Course of History":
• A. L. Basham: "Soma"
• traditional: "The Vedic Hymns"
• Uday Chand Dutt and George King: "Sanskrit Sources"
• Pascal Brotteaux: "The Ancient Greeks"
• Mircea Eliade: "Ancient Scythia and Iran"
• W. Reininger: "Remnants from Prehistoric Times"
• Sara Benetowa: "Tracing One Word through Different Languages"
• Sara Benetowa: "Names of the Plant"
• Melvin Clay: "Fragments from a Search"
• Melvin Clay: "The Song of Solomon"
• traditional: "The Tale of Two Hashish Eaters"
• Philip K. Hitti: "The Assassins"
• traditional: "The Hodja"
• traditional: "A Moroccan Folk Tale"
• François Rabelais: "The Herb Pantagruelion"
• Jean Leander: "American Indians in 1626"
• George Washington: "Diary Notes"
• W. Reininger: "Two Celebrated Hashish Eaters"
• Charles Baudelaire: "Concerning Hashish"
• Gerard de Nerval: "Supernaturalist"
• Arthur Rimbaud: "Morning of Drunkenness and Vowels"
• Friedrich Würzbach: "Nietzsche's Letter to Peter Gast"
• Stanley Vestal: "Sitting Bull's Vision of Victory"
• John Niehardt: "Black Elk Speaks of His Great Vision"
• Lewis Carroll: "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
• W. Reininger: "Congo Cult"
• John Addington Symonds: "A Remedy for the Present"
• Part Two: "Some High Voices of the Twentieth Century":
• Hermann Hesse: "Steppenwolf"
• Errol Flynn: "Diego Rivera"
• Aldous Huxley: "Island"
• George Andrews: "Steady Roll"
• Henri Michaux: "Light through Darkness"
• Alexander Trocchi: "Marihuana and Sex"
• Paul Bowles: "Kif—A Compendium of Terms"
• Paul Bowles: "He of the Assembly"
• Mohammed Ben Abdullah Yussufi: "The Three Alis"
• Allen Ginsberg: "Night at the Burning Ghat"
• Simon Vinkenoog: "A Fragment from 'High Season'"
• Part Three: "Medical Opinions":
• Victor Robinson: "Concerning Cannabis Indica"
• E. J. Waring: "Pharmacopoeia of India, 1868"
• British Army in India: "Drugs Commission Report, 1894"
• E. Bertherand: "Pharmacopée Arabe, 1900"
• Gimlette & Thomson: "Dictionary of Malayan Medicine"
• J. M. Watt & M. G. Breyer-Brandwijk: "Medicinal and Poisonous Plants of Southern and Eastern Africa"
• Pic and Bonnamour: "Médicaments Végétaux"
• Boericke: "Materia Medica"
• Roger Adams: "Marijuana"
• Louis S. Goldman & Alfred Gilman: "The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics"
• Robert S. De Ropp: "Drugs and the Mind"
• R. Polderman: "The Medical Use of Cannabis Sativa"
• Esther Harding: "The Psychological Significance of the Soma Ritual"
• S. H. Groff: "The Free Fall and Its Relation to the High Feeling"
• William H. McGlothlin: "Cannabis Intoxication and Its Relation to Peyote and LSD"
• S. H. Groff: "Marijuana and the 'O' Effect"
• Phillip S. Epstein: "A Psychiatrist Looks at Jack and the Beanstalk"
• R. D. Laing & A. Esterson: "Two Letters, 1964"
• Part Four: "Potentialities for Increasing Consciousness":
• William James: "Varieties of Consciousness"
• R. C. Zaehner: "Mysticism, Sacred and Profane"
• Alan Watts: "A Psychedelic Experience: Fact or Fantasy"
• Julian Huxley: "Psychometabolism"
• Aldous Huxley: "Culture and the Individual"
• Oliver L. Reiser: "The Integration of Human Knowledge"
• Oliver L. Reiser: "The Problem of Consciousness"
• Ernest Wood: "Yoga"
• Proclus: "Prayer of the Heliotrope"
• Nicolas de Cusa: "Treaty of the Vision of God"
• Yoka Daishi: "Song of Enlightenment"
• C. G. Jung: "A Modern Myth"
• Henry Miller: "Utopian Speculations"
• Julius de Boer: "Ecstasy"
• William S. Burroughs: "Cannabis and Opiates"
• Timonthy Leary & Richard Alpert: "The Politics of Consciousness Expansion"
• Part Five: "The Scene Today and the Law":
• Lawrence Lipton: "The Holy Barbarians"
• Randolfe Wicker: "Extracts from the Wicker Report"
• Richard Goldstein: "The College Scene in the USA"
• Michael Pickering: "Memories of a Kif Smoker"
• John M. Murtagh: "Two Statements"
• New York Daily News: "The Case of Timothy Leary"
• Henry Smith Williams: "Abuse of American Law"
• Edwin M. Schur: "The Black Market in America"
• Colorado Daily News: "The Law in Colorado"
• Akin Davies: "Nigeria Whispers"
• Neal Phillips: "Notes from Tartaros"
• Wayland Young: "Marijuana and Alcohol"
• Stephen Abrams: "The Oxford Scene and the Law"