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, an unknown young poet in New York, 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 indian doctors for finding lost objects, mostly bodies and souls. Author and recipient of ...
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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, an unknown young poet in New York, 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 indian 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. Burroughs' mysterious reply is sent. The volume concludes with two epilogues: a short note from Ginsberg on his return from the Orient years later reassuring Self that he is still here on earth, and a final poetic cut-up by Burroughs, I am dying, Meester?
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PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book from multilingual publisher. Shipped from UK within 4 to 14 days. Please check language within the description.
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Very Good. Paper Wraps; very slight rubbing to spine edge; Interior is clean and unmarked; Binding is solid. This is a Third Printing from November 1966.
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Very Good. FIRST EDITION. San Fransisco: City Lights Press, 1963: Paperback original with proper first printing points present: no additional printings listing on copyright page, printed in England (subsequent printings were printed in Michigan), pages sewn together and not just glued. Book is in very good overall condition. Light wear, clean pages, spot on front cover, light bumping to front bottom corner. Tight binding, a bit of toning with age. Pages have a very light must odor. Rare as a true first printing.
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Very Good. 16mo., 62pp. Sharp Stated Third Printing, November, 1966. $1.25 cover price on rear panel. Square, tight and clean throughout save a small neat ownership signature on title page. Minor edge-wear and shallow creasing. Still bright with no chipping or tears. A very nice collectable copy and at a great price.
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Fine. No Jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Pub by City Lights Books, 1975. NOT exLib. Fine cond. softcover in pict wraps. P/O's emboss on ffep & brief inscription on verso, o/w book is clean & unmarked throughout. 66pp. Square, straight, tight, bright & clean, overall Fine cond. Same or next day shipping. Please email any questions.
Long overdue in reading this, given my history as an Entheogenic Enthusiast, a child of the 50s and 60s, and an addictions counselor to boot!
These guys lived a life too down and dirty for my taste, but a fascinating profile nevertheless.
