The Yage Letters [Vintage Paperback]
$65
By William Burroughs & Allen Ginsberg
Scarce early paperback
In stock
Description
- First published in 1963 [in this format by City Lights], this is loosely a collection of correspondence between the two Beat writers
- Uses, as a basis, Burroughs’ 1950s Amazonian adventures in search of the hallucinogenic yage plant
- Stated Fifth Printing [City Lights, San Francisco, 1969]; 68 pages; illustrated card wraps, rubbed on edges, an excellent copy



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