Copyright © 2012 by Steven Martin
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Published in the United States by Villard Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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Grateful acknowledgment is made to Richard Curtis Associates for permission to reprint excerpts from “The Big Smoke” by Emily Hahn (The New Yorker, February 15, 1969), copyright © 1969. Reprinted by permission of Richard Curtis Associates.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Martin, Steven.
Opium fiend: a 21st century slave to a 19th century addiction / Steven Martin.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-345-51785-2
1. Martin, Steven. 2. Drug paraphernalia—Collectors and collecting—United States—Biography. 3. Antiques—United States—Biography. I. Title.
NK4897.M36 2012
362.29’3092—dc23 2012006896
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Jacket design: Christopher Sergio
Jacket photograph: © Andreas Rosenkranz/arcangel-images.com
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