Folio. Frontispiece, 2 maps, 2 portraits. xvi, 275, [2] pages, including errata. Stiff green & tan illustrated wrappers. This example numbered #73 of 350 copies and signed by the author, inscribed to Colin Harding and the staff at the Latin American Newsletters.  Moderate wear, creases and one repaired tear to rear wrapper. 

The author, born in 1949 in Sao Paulo, Brazil, collected material for this book on two visits to Columbia in 1971 and 1973/74. "Mama Coca is both a searing indictment of the monopolization of the cocaine traffic by the reactionary security forces, and a passionate defence of the habit of chewing coca leaves in their natural, unrefined state. The book first examines the overall cultural and economic history of coca in the Andes, and then concentrates on the way the plant is cultivated, prepared and consumed by one particular group of coca adepts, the Paez Indians of Cauca, Columbia."