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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

Condition: Good plus, edge wear and some corner creasing, slight scuffing at bottom edge, faint spine crease, no writing or underlining.Most of us know only our speaking and untrained singing voices. This book will help you discover your 3rd powerful, trained singing voice through exercises that can be applied to any vocal style. The author presents a complete guide for discovering your vocal range and developing breath control, resonance, and vibrato. Includes chapters on the voice as an instrument including care of the voice, the relationship between one speaking and singing voice, and the cultivation of correct singing posture. You'll learn how to articulate and use the voice effectively in different styles of singing as well as how to sing with a microphone. A great number of vocal exercises and complete songs in various styles are presented, making this book an enjoyable learning experience as well as an effective tool for voice development.

Black Sparrow Press, Santa Rosa, CA, 1986. First trade paperback edition. Condition: Very Good plus, light edge wear, faint corner crease on front cover, faint spine creasing.Bukowski delves into his youth to analyze its repercussions.

Harper Collins, Toronto, 1996. First edition, signed by the author. Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. Lovely novella, signed by Findley on the title page.From the publisher: It's 1942. Everything is possible, though all seems impossible. A dashing RCAF pilot has captured the hearts of a woman and her son. Meantime, her philandering husband is drinking his own career away. Here on the home front, war brings hope of reconciliation, even after loss and betrayal.

Norton, New York. 2nd trade paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, light edge and corner wear, corner creasing at rear cover.Michael Reynolds recreates the milieu that forged one of America's greatest and most influential writers. He reveals the fraught foundations of Hemingway's persona: his father's self-destructive battle with depression and his mother's fierce independence and spiritualism. He brings Hemingway through World War I, where he was frustrated by being too far away from the action and glory, despite his being wounded and nursed to health by Agnes Von Kurowsky—the older woman with whom he fell terribly in love.

Harlequin 95, Toronto, 1951. Condition: Very good plus, very light edge wear and spine crease, slight wear on rear cover, slight browning of interior pages.

Paragon, New York, 1990. First edition. Condition: Very good minus, light edge and corner wear, light bumping at spine ends, price stickers on rear cover.These are the essays, verse, parables, and fairy tales written when Camus was nineteen to twenty-one. Here are the secret writings of a young artist making awesome demands upon himself - assessing, rejecting, or assimilating the thoughts and styles of others, honing his craft, working out an aesthetic and a voice of his own. With an introductory essay by Paul Viallaneix.