Light Through Darkness

Translated from the French by Haakon Chevalier. First English language edition, 1963. Originally published in France in 1961. Precedes the UK edition (Bodley Head, 1964). Hardback in dust jacket. 230pp. Publisher’s original grey cloth boards stamped in white and yellow. Top-edge grey. Slight rubbing to edges. Jacket scuffed to spine ends and corner tips and with a few tears and slight loss to lower panel, along fold and half-way down the spine. *** First-hand account of the use of various drugs (from marijuana to psilocybine) by painter and writer Henri Michaux (1899-1984). A poet’s reflection on the effects of drugs.