The LSD HANDBOOK was first published in 1959. I'd never seen it before recently (online), and I've looked in libraries and bookstores for things like that long before the internet was invented. In the early 60's LSD was available by prescription from select psychiatrists, especially in California - and it was a fad in Hollywood. I believe that Gregory Peck, and many other celebrities, tried it. There were unscrupulous people selling it as "A trip to heaven" for hundreds of dollars. Today, Sandoz LSD would be worth that much, IF you could find it.

Had The LSD Handbookâ??s instructions been taken more seriously in the 60's, we'd probably still have access to better quality drugs. Albert Hofmann, LSD's inventor (who is still alive at 100 years old) preferred a more controlled usage of it - and was not happy with the casual, uncontrolled acid-taking of Timothy Leary and his associates.
http://www.maps.org/ritesofpassage/lsdhandbook.html

This is book, by Leary (before he "dropped-out") and friends, is pretty good, also - I used to have it in hardcover.
The Psychedelic Experience-A manual based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead By Timothy Leary, Ph.D., Ralph Metzner, Ph.D., & Richard Alpert, Ph.D.
http://www.lycaeum.org/books/books/p...e/tibetan.html