Leo Tolstoy / Pourquoi les hommes usent-ils de stupéfiants? Why do people 1st

Description: Rare Tolstoy Pamphlet on Drugs and AlcoholPourquoi les hommes usent-ils de stupéfiants? [Why do people stupefy themselves?] Author: Tolstoy, Leo [Tolstoï, Leon] Title: Pourquoi les hommes usent-ils de stupéfiants? [Why do people stupefy themselves?] Publication: Paris: Bureaux des Annales Antialcooliques, [n.d. but 1904]. First Edition Edition: First Edition Description: Pamphlet. The first separate edition, in French translation by Michel Peter, of Tolstoy's polemical inquiry into why people use alcohol and drugs. The essay begins:"What is this demand for stupefying things-vodka, wine, beer, hashish, opium, tobacco, and others less universally used; ether, morphine, mukhumor? Why did it begin and so quickly spread, and why does it still spread among all classes of men, savage and civilized alike? What does it mean that everywhere, if there is not vodka, wine, and beer, there you find opium of hashish, mukhumor, and other things, and tobacco everywhere?" (from the translation published in the New England Review in 1998).This essay reportedly first appeared as the foreword to a book by P. S. Alexeyeff called "On Drunkenness." This information comes from a footnote in the present edition and it has been widely repeated, although your cataloguer has not been able to identify the book in question. This pamphlet bears no publication date; inside it confusingly dates the original to 1896 at the front and 1890 at the back. The publication date of this French translation is probably 1904 as it appears in the Bibliographie de la France for that year.16 pages. OCLC records a single copy, in France. Very good. First separate edition. A very good copy in the original printed wrappers. The covers were split at the spine and repaired and the pamphlet resewn. Seller ID: 362887 Subject: Cocktails, Beer & Wine, COOKING, Russia Downtown Brown Books has been selling on eBay since 1998. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA), the International Online Booksellers Association (IOBA), and the Cascade Booksellers Association (CBA), and we adhere to their codes of ethics. Condition grading is done in compliance with IOBA's published standards. Terms All orders ship within one business day. Standard mail is USPS Media Mail. Expedited and international shipping are also available. All items are guaranteed to be as described or they may be returned within 30 days of receipt for a full refund.This listing was created by Bibliopolis.

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