The Great Books of Hashish Vol. 1 Book 1 3rd edition

[ilife]

LAURENCE CHERNIAK will be releasing a 3rd edition of The Great Books of Hashish Vol. 1 Book 1, in Summer 08.

www.LAURENCECHERNIAK.com




iLiFE

 

[GrassMan]

Hi iLife,

Thanks for the info.

It was a pleasure to meet you and the crew at Spannabis.
As soon as I can, I’ll run my new setup and post a few photos.
Thanks for the good time.

Peace.

 

[ilife]

Hi iLife,

Thanks for the info.

It was a pleasure to meet you and the crew at Spannabis.
As soon as I can, I’ll run my new setup and post a few photos.
Thanks for the good time.

Peace.

Hola Grassman,

It was nice to finally meet you also. Your Hash was very nice, thanks for sharing!!!

iLiFE

 

[Capt. Crip]

Thanks for the post ILife!! I didn't realize he had a website....

Take care..................................CC

 

[Guest]

Nice to see another Lawrence Cherniak book, I want the others too but they are sooo expensive!

I remember Dr Cherniak had the hard bound edition of his books with him at the CC 04 and they are beautiful, green leather with a gold pot leaf embossed on the front, ca't remember how much he was charging but they were hundreds of dollars each!

 

[RottenDawg]

VERY NICE!!! Will have to add that one to my library. This will be #4 of the series. I have #1 & #2 already. Never seen #3 available. Thanks for the info...........RD

 

[RottenDawg]

Well, just went look'n and I could only find #1, #2 and #3. No #4 that I could find. Maybe a direct link? Thanks...........RD

 

[ilife]

There is no number 4, This book is a 3rd edtion of Volume 1 Book 1.
This book will be afforable to the public.





iLiFE

 

[Guest]

Kulu Trading did affordable editions of the first two but try finding a copy nowadays! 200-300 quid on Amazon secondhand!

 

[Guest]

I found an interesting review of the books. I've seen some of Cherniak's books, but not all of them, I need to collect them all!

To have named them the ‘Great Books’ was perhaps a trifle immodest. But they are great books.
Laurence Cherniak’s epic volumes of hashish and grass lore, his beautiful photographs,
his travels and travails through the lands where the grass really is greener have become
legendary. These are books -- all three of them -- that should be in every dope smoker’s library.
In this tribute to both the man and the books, we give credit where credit is due.

GREAT BOOKS, LAURENCE

. the beginning was the word and the word was with Laurence Cherniak. Could this be a prediction from a future mythology? We hope so but it doesn’t matter much for the word WAS with Laurence. Not, however, just the word but the image as well. And they all came together in the first of his Great Books: ‘The Great Books of Hashish; Volume One; Book One.’ What a piece de resistance, what an ouvre, what coup de grace (okay, that’s us frenched out for this issue,) what a production, what a title. And on such nice shiny paper, too.
...But, really, when the first volume
...... .
. of the Great Books appeared on the
new publications table of the Com-
pendium Bookshop near London’s famous Camden Lock, it was a galvanising experience. Although the far off post-hippy days when books



on cannabis could still be counted on the fingers of less than half a hand had gone, the appearance -- in 1979 -- of The Great Books of Hashish was a mind-waking, earth-shaking,
ground-breaking publishing event. ...For a decade and more, publishers had been filling the yawning gap in
the cannabis book market with a multitude of volumes designed to entertain, inform or just fill space on your bookshelves. The Great Books ...... . brains of the tales of their travels as we sat and took in all that colour in the market squares or hash cafés.
...For most of us reaching Kath-
mandu had been a struggle against spiralling poverty, escalating dysentery and terrible bunions. Survival on the six month journey by foot and thumbed lift had left many of us as penniless as paupers but with some experiences we could never write home about. It was when one reached Kathmandu that the poverty got to be a problem. Staying in Nepal was a matter of keeping ahead of the police who constantly checked the papers of foreigners. But your papers were not the only thing they checked. At the same time they also checked your wallet to see if you had enough to offer them a bribe. And if you didn’t . . .
...For many of us our deportation back to dear old Blighty or the US was one of the best bits of the whole trip. Deported in a convoy of buses and by train, it was a 24 hour party all the way to Delhi airport. Although the prospect of tutting parents and po-faced Foreign Office civil servants was only moments away, we had seen and smoked the Goddesses, we had been to the high places where the earth and the sky merge, we had been
....... .

No one had ever taken photographs of high quality hashish with such obvious loving care. Indeed, no one had taken photographs of any hashish until Laurence Cherniak happened along.
Taken from
The Great Books of Hashish Vol 1 Book 1
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buds, plants and, in some countries, the hash produced from them.
...If we were in any doubt about Laur-
ence Cherniak’s abilities as a photo-
grapher, the bud pictures say it all. His photographs, particularly, of growing plants are groundbreaking. One of the first of the photographers to get in close, Cherniak was a pioneer of microscopic photography and it is in the close-ups of buds covered in sparkly resin glands and prismatic droplets of THC that his skill as a photographer shines through.
...But the great bud photos are only one of the innovative aspects of Book II. Seguing from a review of grass in the States to the growing of it, Cherniak comes up with some of the most concise and knowledgeable information on growing we have yet
encountered and includes a thorough
photographic walk-through of cloning techniques that, at the time, constit-
uted a major break through in cannabis lore. With an accompanying text that takes in all the important aspects of growing including fertilisers and pests
. of Hashish, however, was different. It was a volume of a new order.
...From its juicy cover picture -- now so well known that it has become an icon of the smoking culture -- of a pile of Nepalese royal temple balls to its elegant layout and erudite text, this was a class prod-
uction. Indeed, so nicely produced was The Great Books of Hashish that it could be found adorning many a coffeetable in hip households at a time when coffeetables had not yet been elevated from their status as mere pieces of furniture. Among its many claims to fame, The Great Books of Hashish may well have been the prototype for that strange genre of books designed primarily as decor. But, of course, it was not merely for looking at but for reading as well.
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With balls like that, he has got to be one happy man.
Kneaded into the basic shape, then rolled between the
palms until soft, sticky and malleable, this Royal
Nepalese Temple Ball was 'polished' on an
upended enamel plate. The 'polish' seals the ball,
keeping the inside soft and moist.

Taken from The Great Books of Hashish Vol 1 Book 1
and picture captions that more than supplement the visuals, this is still one of the best crash courses in growing we have seen.
...In another smooth transition, Mr Cherniak goes from photographs of only ‘one-
third’ of the ‘American All-Star Stash’ featuring an impressively large collection of drugs, pipes and paraphernalia into another innovative
. ...And what a read. Truly a labour of love, this was a book on hashish by an enthusiast for enthusiasts. Never before had we read such informed and lovingly written text or


My, what a pretty tablecloth.
Taken from The Great Books of Hashish
Vol 1 Book 1
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encountered such a glorification of the beauties of cannabis resin. As we joined Cherniak on his travels through Morocco, Lebanon, Afghanistan and Nepal, the world of hashish makers and making was miraculously revealed. This, as we could see from the extensively captioned photographs that accompanied the main text, was the real thing. And, boy, were we impressed.
...Written in an easy-going, pleas-
antly relaxed style, the main text is packed with information. Cherniak’s introduction is just that, a summary of the detailed information -- in word and picture -- to be found within, that focuses the mind and prepares the eye for what is to follow. And then, camera in hand, we are off on Laurence’s magic carpet to Ketema to sample some Double-O Kif.
...As with all the chapters in The Great Books, after a little scene setting the main text provides an evocative and richly coloured back-
drop for the powerful photographs -- of grinning lumps of the finished product posing alongside implements of the hash makers trade and the smokers art, of some extremely stoned people and, remarkably, of the processes involved in producing those aforementioned globules of joy. Although all the photographs, almost without exception, are just beautiful, it is in the mini photo-essays through which Cherniak explores the techni-
ques of hashish making that his volume makes its most impactful impression. Accompanied by detailed captions that vie with the main text for informational dominance, the photographs capture in dusky sepia tones the full exotica of hash prod-
uction as never before. Carefully linked to the pictures, the captions are rich with information and explan-
ation.
...Having given up a chapter each to Morocco, Lebanon and Afghanistan, Laurence Cherniak hits the Indian sub-continent for the book’s final four chapters and its dramatic climax. Here is revealed his real love, his real passion, his real raison d’etre. In the pictures of lumps, blocks, pieces and balls of black hashish so rich and smooth looking that the smell almost rises from the pages, we can see that Cherniak is a man in the throes of a passionate affair with a substance. And we can all associate with that.
...But it was not towards the delights of the Parvarti valley, home of the sub-continent’s finest hand-rolled charas or to Manali that Laurence Cherniak headed. Despite the rich, fruity and highly spiritual highs available from the Parvarti Valley, Kulu and many other parts of Mother India, the intrepid hash hound had a higher goal in mind -- one at about 16,000 feet.
...At the end of the Hippy Trail shin-
ing like a beacon jewel in the crown of the Himalayas is that ancient centre of cannabis law, Kathmandu. High in the mountain range where the great rivers of India start as streams that wend their way through the stepped flower-hung cliffs of the jungled valleys, beyond the best efforts of modern transport, deep amid the snow capped peaks and prayer flag draped stupas is Shangri-
la. Full of sannyasin and sadhus praising the great names of Shiva through the use of the deity’s favour-
ite herb, Nepal is a country that can truly stake a claim to the title Highest of the High.
...Home of some of the world’s greatest hash masters and makers, Nepal was a temptress for many of the hippies who grew tired of repression and bullshit in their own lands. The famed hippy trail had to have at its end a goal, and Kathman-
du was it. As travellers tales came back from foreign climes, the crystal sweet air of the Himalayas laced with the rich smells of burning temple balls exerted an allure that many could not resist. In another incarn-
ation and a different pair of shoes, the editor of this publication was one of those who followed his nose to Kathmandu’s Eden Hashish Centre to drink their rank green but lethal bhang lassi and to smoke their fam-
ous hashish in their famous chillums.


A multi-mouthed mollusc makes
the most of Hawaii's bounty.
Taken from The Great Books of Cannabis
Vol 1 Book 2
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...The Kathmandu experience is one to be cherished. In the exotic streets lined with wattle and daub buildings quietly flaking away in the clear, clean sunshine, the air was so full of the smells of alien cultures -- from the frying street foods of samosa and vada, from the temples and the houses burning incense to appease and propitiate the many Gods and Goddesses of Nepal’s strangely hybrid pantheon, of spices and herbs from the stalls and shops, of simple humanity and of cow dung -- that it was almost too much for the senses to handle. Bewitched, bemused and befuddled by the potent hashish available from, it seemed, just about everywhere in this City of Dreams, the newly arrived hippies would ease their weary feet and unburden their
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. . reincarnated as the sons and daughters of Shiva, we had done ‘the trail.’ And we had a stiff letter from the Foreign Office charging us several hundred pounds for our air ticket back home to prove it.
...For Laurence Cherniak the Kathmandu experience must have been similar (except less poverty stricken.) It would seem so from his descriptions of the city and the surrounding area. His stay was also longer than the author’s. And he seems to have made the most of it. As Mr Cherniak explores the intricacies of hashish making in Nepal his love of the subject and the substance shines through in the intensely appreciative, almost devotional descriptions. Here are the famed photographs of the temple balls and royal Nepalese loaves. Here, too, are the warm and friendly faces of the makers and rubbers doing their ‘thang’ for the American tourist with the camera.
...Browsing over the last chapters of his initial ouvre as he writes so fluently and evocatively about the

. . photo-essay.
...Although the book’s final chapter on opium is a little out of sync with the ethos of the cannabis culture, it is a fine anthropological study of a hidden but significant part of society world

wide. And, as such, constitutes yet another first for the diminutive Mr Cherniak. Once again Cherniak’s wonderful photographs take the centre stage as he applies his detailed eye to the growing, production, processing and use of the lethal substance. While his pictures of opium and opium users are not as pleasant to look at as those of the less destructive substance we choose to use, they are stunningly original and dramatic.
...In all the second book in the series
of Great Books did not disappoint. But it was generally felt that Cherniak would have a little difficulty coming up with a third book. He seemed to have done the subject to death. So much so, indeed, that the last chapter of Book II was not about cannabis at all. We could only hope; it did say on one of the early pages of Book II that there would be a third volume dealing with ‘eating and drinking cannabis around the world,’ ‘smuggling in a couple of keys,’ the ‘anatomy of cannabis’ and ‘microscopic explorations.’ Hmmm, that sounded interesting. We couldn’t wait.


Jewels of THC sparkle on a
a bud in one of Laurence's
most luscious photographs.
Taken from The Great Books of Hashish
Vol 1 Book 3
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...But we did have to wait. Not three years, or five years, not a decade but for seventeen years we waited. We had, of course, all but given up when news arrived of the imminent publication
of Book III. But as Laurence or someone else whose name begins with ‘L’ said in another context in a private
communication to the editor of Coffee-
house Culture: ‘Works of genius take time.’
...And, indeed, all the promises were fulfilled.
...Produced, it would seem, with the backing of one of Cherniak’s long-time sponsors, Amsterdam’s own Sensi Seed Bank, and featuring an introduction written by Seed Bank founder, Ben Dronkers, it is the largest and thickest of the Great Books. That, however, is both a good and a bad thing. Surely a series of books should all be the same size? That is, surely, one of the nicest things about owning a compete set of books -- that they look good on the bookshelves. But the third volume of the Great Books has a slightly larger page size than the previous books. It is only a quarter of an inch but for us anally-retentive, order-obsessive hoarders and storers, it is quarter of an inch too much.


Every state gets a mention.
Taken from The Great Books of Hashish
Vol 1 Book 3
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...It is a shame, too, that the colour tones were not maintained between volumes. A somewhat garish and unsubtle extravaganza of primary colours and Photoshop filters, Book III was produced by Laurence Cherniak himself on his computer. And while we might associate with his delight in discovering that computers are wond-
erful things (if you don’t have a life), we have never been fans of collage, montage or pistache; the resemblance of this last word to the phrase ‘piss-
take’ may not, in our opinion, be entirely coincidental. But, unfortun-
ately, that is what most of this work contains. Busy, busy, busy.
...The third book of the first volume of the Great Books (with the title again reverting to ‘. . . of Hashish’) fulfils, as we said, all of the promises. But not quite in the way we had anticipated. The world wide survey that started in Book II -- which, although we didn’t know it, was only part one -- becomes the main part of the newest volume with over 30 countries getting a mention as well as all 50 US states. That takes up 186 pages of the 248 page book. This is followed by an excellent word and picture essay on smuggling that gets ten pages. A further 20 pages are given over to the culinary arts as Cherniak assumes the role of the Giggling Gourmet and offers up some recipes -- traditional and new -- using grass. The text is slight and insubstantial but that is more than compensated for by the size of the type used. However, the partially sighted will find it a boon and the rest of us will just leave the book in another room. In a volume singularly short on text this does start with a good essay on cannabis comestibles in that exemplar of veggie food, India.
...It is the final section of the book proper -- from page 216 to 229 -- with its wonderful microscopic photographs of buds and their constituent parts that
is, perhaps, the most exciting. As one
. . .

place and the people is almost as good as having been there. The whole experience is there is the pictures and text. The smells, the tastes, the colours, the smoke. The whole thing.
...But, more significantly, enshrin-
ed within the first volume of The Great Books of Hashish is the first and most beautiful pictorial description of the Nepalese art of hashish making. And therein, in part, lies the major portion of Laurence Cherniak’s contribution to world knowledge. Although subsequently many have described the processes in far greater detail and with much more in-depth knowledge than Cherniak, his photographs say so much more.
...For many of us, The Great Books of Hashish; Volume One Book One’ became one of those cherished, well thumbed and frequently read volumes that was always to hand. For some it did, indeed, become the coffeetable book that we all loved to browse.
...On the assumption that, as the first book had been called Book One, there would be a follow-up volume we dashed out to the bookshop to order our copies. And we did not have that long to wait. By the middle of 1983 we had the second volume of the Great Books. The title we noted had somehow transmuted itself from Hashish to Cannabis. But we could hardly blame Cherniak for expanding his definitions. What more could one say about hashish than had been said in the first book? Subtitled, ‘Marijuana Around the World, Sensimilla, Stash, Opium,’ we wondered if Mr Cherniak might, in some small way, have lost his focus. But the book did not disappoint. While it did not have the tightly defined focus of the volume on hashish or quite as many transcendental photographs, Book Two still had much going for it. And, in its own way, was as innovative as the previous tome had been.



Ever the innovator, Laurence
Cherniak made the photography
of grass buds an artform.
Taken from The Great Books of Cannabis
Vol 1 Book 2
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...Indeed, in terms of the text it had much more info that the previous volume. In addition to a vast amount of cannabis legend and lore, the book contains a very readable and detailed partial history of cannabis. It is, however, rather disappointing that the author seems to have become bored with this not long before lunchtime. Having spent pages detailing the develop-
ment of cannabis use from the year dot to 1226, the following four centuries get nary a mention and the 17th 18th and early 19th centuries are dismissed in just a page and half. And, just like you are reading Coffeehouse Culture, suddenly it is the 60s. But, losing that vital focus even more, the history gives way to the polemics and the information to opinion.
...The somewhat idiosyncratic introduction is, however, only a minor glitch in an otherwise fine piece of work.
...Broadly the book breaks down into three sections: there is the ‘Marijuana around the world’ bit that takes in most of the main producers of weed and includes a section on growing with an excellent photo-essay on cloning, a section on someone's (possibly Cherniak's) drug collection and a word and picture essay dealing with opium production and use. And each section has much to offer. As we travel with Laurence to Afghanistan, Burma, Columbia, India, Jamaica, Lebanon, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, Thailand and, finally, to the US of A, the info comes thick and fast. After a tight and informative general introduct-
ion to buying and using weed, we are off on that magic carpet again. And, once again, it is the pictures that carry the story. For each country there is an informative essay on the its main products, pictures of leaves from the geno-
type associated with the region and, of course, delicious pictures of the

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PLAIN TEXT
Laurence Cherniak
A Biography (of sorts)


My what a man of many skills.
Not only is Laurence Cherniak creator of the Great Books a masterful writer, photo-
grapher and a professional dope smoker extraordinaire but also an actor, star of screen and community theatre stages, a musician, a scriptwriter, an artist, a poet, a designer, a computer buff, an unrestrained self publi-
cist, a registered solutions consultant with Apple Computers but also, he lets slip in one of the books, a trained ballet dancer. In our experience, however, he does not dance any pas de deux. Although in the biographies of the author that appear in the first two volumes of the Great Books the facts are few, he really is one of the world’s great myth makers. Unfortunately, the third of his books adds no further detail (but lots of pictures) to the story of the man behind the myths. No doubt he is saving it all up for the autobiography that will probably constitute all three books of Volume III. What can one say about this man of mystery? When it comes down to talking about his loud taste in knitwear it is only Coffeehouse Culture’s auntie Edith (author of ‘Knit Yourself a New Life’) who gets excited. Probably a hyper-active child, judging by his web site Mr Cherniak is a creative whirlwind who is cashing in on his talent. Selling postcards of his paintings and paintings of his postcards as well as a range of cannabis related products, Laurence Cherniak has recently produced a set of cannabis playing cards and a CD-Rom of his inimitable pictures of grass leaves. A Canadian by birth, Mr Cherniak has managed to overcome this disability through his world travels and exotic tastes. He remains a resident of Canada.
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SEEDING THE CULTURE

Like so many hard-up people within the cannabis culture, Laurence Cherniak has benefitted from the support, promotion and sponsorship of the Sensi Seed Bank. One of the best known cannabis companies in Amsterdam, largely through the exceedingly well publicised, Hash Marijuana Hemp Museum, the Seed Bank has been influencial and successful in furthering the acceptance of marijuana and hemp in Dutch society and beyond. A tireless activist and a far sighted entrepreneur, Seed Bank founder, Ben Dronkers is one of the founding fathers of the cannabis culture as it exists in Amsterdam today and has been at the very fore-
front of the culture throughout its develop-
ment. The Seed Bank, started in 1973, is credited with the first skunk genotype and has been the prime mover in the dissemination of seeds to grow the skunk plants for which Amsterdam is renowned. With shops in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Groningen and the famed Cannabis Castle near Rotterdam, Sensi Seed Bank has a strong presence within the Netherlands and, through the Cannabis Cup and sponsorship of many of cannabis luminaries, a growing one world wide. A highly professional set up that has been and continues to be among the most innovative in the cannabis field, the Seed Bank is among the leading breeders of new strains and have taken hemp into the broader commodity field with products such as hempflax (a bedding for horses), cosmetics and even fibreboard. The Seed Bank was among the first companies to be awarded a Cannabis Cup and have received innumerable cups and medals over the intervening years.

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. . of those in the vanguard of microscopic photography of grass plants, Laurence Cherniak again breaks new ground with his high magnification pictures of trichomes and the sparkly bits we don’t usually see.
...It is perhaps an unfortunate error in judgement that the second largest section of the book, the 23 pages right at the end, is given over to the most outrageous bit of self-promotion we have seen in many a long year. It does not look good for the author’s self-image that he has to puff himself so excessively. Does he not feel, as do his many admirers (including the editor of Coffeehouse Culture), that his contribution to the culture is very clearly seen in his work? While we can all understand a desire to promote and sell the books and products by which he makes his living, 23 pages is just a bit over the top. Isn’t it?
...But that does not detract from the book itself. Once again we are treated to a feast of pictures as we skim round the world taking in such places as Christiana and dear old Amsterdam. Although there are many great photographs, the book is generally let down by Cherniak’s over busy design. There are many pages where the images are so densely layered that they assault the eye leaving it shrivelled and tearful. But, thankfully, there are few words to read, just some short captions, in this predominantly pictorial volume. (For computer buffs who would like to see the many interesting effects that can be achieved on grass leaves with Photoshop filters, Mr Cherniak’s book is one that will be an invaluable time-saver.)
...More than ever, through its absence of substantial text, a coffeetable book, the third of the Great Books still has much to recommend it. In our opinion as good a writer as he is a photograph-
er, Laurence Cherniak supplies interesting and informative captions but not much more. When, on the subjects of smuggling and cooking and in the idiosyncratic introduction (‘Midnight Express’ revisited), he does put pen to paper (or finger to keyboard) the info comes pouring out. But there is far too little of it to stop the book getting flagged.
...Without doubt the third book of Volume I of The Great Books of Hashish should be in everyone’s collection -- alongside the first two volumes. Somewhat deficient though it might be, it still makes an inestimable contribution to defining and expanding understanding of the culture that has grown up around the use of cannabis. If, as would seem to be the case, Mr Cherniak is intent on producing the definitive anthropological study of the cannabis culture, his mission is going well.
...And, it is loudly proclaimed on an early page of the newest volume, there is more to come. Book IV, it says, the first book in Volume II, will be released in the year 2000, not to mention books V and VI. But, whilst the end of 2002 approaches, we haven’t seen any sign of book IV, we do know Laurence Cherniak to be a man of his word.
...Even if there were no further books, Laurence Cherniak has made his contri-
bution to the dope culture and the world. And what a massive one it is. Even without his garish self promotion, he, his books and his photographs have become icons of the cannabis culture. Coffeehouse Culture, therefore, honours the great work done by Laurence Cherniak to further the understanding of and knowledge within this culture. Good on ya, Laurence.

 

[ilife]

Collection

Collection

Here is some of my LAURENCE CHERNIAK collection. All of it is personally signed by him.




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[Woody Creek]

questions from a future buyer

questions from a future buyer

so would you say, it's worth paying the price? good overall reading?

i saw someone posted above, but hate spoiling things.

 

[ilife]

Wait for the 3rd edition in Summer 08. You will be more than happy with your purchase.

If you are a collector than buy the 1st edition.

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[Chamba]

"While we can all understand a desire to promote and sell the books and products by which he makes his living, 23 pages is just a bit over the top. Isn’t it?"

no, of course not, I think all authors should dedicate many more pages full of obnoxious, garish, self promotion in their books......why stop at 23 pages?.....I suggest a minimum of 230 pages of self promotion..the more garish the better!

 

[Guest]

Well, the third book may be garish, but the first two are classics, definitely. When I met Laurence Cherniak I thought he was a bit of a self promoter, but hey, you gotta admire his work!

 

[wardyleb]

i was given a copy of the first edition in 1980 and it was my bible for many years (in those days you could get most those types of hash and it was a good book to refer to)

i lost this and a few years back got the 2nd edition and was a little disappointed. Some of the images seemed to be missing and the awful photoshop bits that had been added horrified me.


wonderful pictures though, and still the best book out there about "old school" hash (the first edition of book 1)

 

[Woody Creek]

hate to compare. BUT how is compared to the RC clarke hashish? different? similar? apples to carrots?

 

[wardyleb]

good question. I have both books. THe clark book does have way more literary content and does have more information IMHO. The GBOH though has some of the BEST hash pictures you will ever see.

THey both complement each other very well, and Mr CHERNIAK id often quoted in rob clarks book.


Both a MUST for any resin buff,


wardy

 

[TRANKILOMAN]

Well, the third book may be garish, but the first two are classics, definitely. When I met Laurence Cherniak I thought he was a bit of a self promoter, but hey, you gotta admire his work!

Better talk good about yourself than bad about anyone else....
AMAZING WORK ... beautifull paintings, pics and reports...
check his other website.: www.i-pot.tv

 

[HarryNugz]

I have the vol.1, book1, 1st edition myself and love the book! Just bought his new book on hash too. There was a British company that sold seeds as well as other items and had the 2nd and 3rd editions of GBOH at reasonable prices. They stopped sending seeds to the US, and wouldn't even return my emails the pricks. I wanted the other volumes badly as a collector.