The Yage Letters by Allen Ginsberg; William S. Burroughs - 1963

City Lights Books, 1963. Paperback. As New. Disclaimer:An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. Dust cover is intact; pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

City Lights Publishers, January 2001. Trade Paperback . Good. no.

Brand: City Lights Publishers, 2001-01-01. First Edition. paperback. Used: Good.

City Lights Publishers. Very Good+. 2001. Softcover. 0872860043 . Light wear. ; Clean and tight.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 72 pp .

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1978. Eighth printing. Paperback. Near Fine. 72 pages; 4 7/8 x 7 1/2

City Lights Books:, 1975. 66 pages, illustrated. "The Yage Letters: an early epistolary novel by William S. Burroughs, whose 1951 account of himself as Junkie, published under the pseudonym William Lee, ended 'Yage may be the final fix'." FINE SOFTCOVER. Soft Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

City Lights, San Francisco, CA, 1988. 3rd trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, very light corner wear, price sticker residue on front cover, light toning.An early epistolary novel by William Burroughs, whose 1951 account of himself as as junkie, published under the pseudonym William Lee, ended "Yage may be the final fix". In letters to Allen Ginsberg his journey to the Amazon jungle is recorded, detailing picaresque incidents of a search for a telepathic-hallucinogenic-mind-expanding drug called yage (Ayahuasca, or Banisteripsis Caape), used by Amazon native doctors for finding lost objects, mostly bodies and souls. Author and recipient of these letters met again in New York, Christmas 1953, and edited the writings to form this single book. The correspondence contains the first seeds of the later Burroughsian fantasy in Naked Lunch. Seven years later Ginsberg in Peru writes his old guru an account of his own visions and terrors with the same drug, appealing for further counsel.… Read More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1975. 66 clean, unmarked pages. Paperback. Near Fine. 12 vo.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Brand: City Lights Publishers, 2001-01-01. First Edition. paperback. Used:Good.