Boston, MA: David R. Godine, Publishers, Inc., 1986. First Softcover Printing. Softcover. This is the first softcover printing of the ninth number of the literary journal edited by Branford Morrow. Featuring an excerpt from William S. Burroughs' The Cat Inside, before it was first published in its entirety later that year (1986) as a lavish, very limited edition, & in different trade format in 1992. Also contributions by Barbara Guest..... More

New York, NY: Tony Shafrazi Gallery, 1987. First Printing. Folded Card Stock. "To view these pictures puts the viewer in the position of the creative observer, who creates by observing. There is a distinct sensation when this creation occurs. One is looking at the picture, then a face, a narrow street filled with red mist, a mineshaft, an area of red huts, swim into view...here is a man pissing against..... More

New York, NY: Autonomedia, Inc., 1987. First edition. Softcover. Large format, 350p+ issue of the provocative, avant garde periodical anthology, featuring Sects and Death by William S. Burroughs, & contributions by Allen Ginsberg, Julian Beck, Harold Norse, Robert Anton Wilson & many, many others. With myriad illustrations, collages, photos. Missing are 4 pages that had been adhered to the inside back cover, with this statement stamped on the lower right..... More

New York, NY; London, England: Jack Tilton Gallery; October Gallery in Conjunction with the Suzanne Biederberg Gallery, 1988. First Edition. Softcover. This art-centric Burroughs-&-Beyond bundle features two art catalogs from the year 1988, a time when Burroughs was immersing himself in painting after the 1986 passing of his dear coconspirator, Brion Gysin. The "Literary Vision" exhibit, which took place at the Jack Tilton Gallery in November of 1988, included photographs..... More

Penngrove, CA: Cydney Chadwick, 1988. First Printing. Softcover. (Schottlaender C576., pg. 82). Advertised as featuring “…an excerpt from the “Lost Chapter” of Naked Lunch,” this issue also contains work by San Francisco gay literary pioneer James Broughton; East Coast Surrealist Andrei Codrescu; Anselm Hollo; the late Joanne Kyger and much more. Considering the time of publication, one would estimate that material from this “lost chapter” of Naked Lunch was taken..... More

New York, NY: Island Records, 1990. First Edition Cassette. In clear plastic case. Still sealed in shrinkwrap The vintage cassette version of William S. Burroughs' spoken word recording, with many classic routines including excerpts from Naked Lunch, & less well-known pieces. Still sealed in shrinkwrap, with adhesive residue on front & a barcode adhered to the back. They literally don't make 'em like this anymore, an ever-increasingly rare WSB collectible..... More

San Francisco, CA: Magical Blend, 1990. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This number of the New-Ageish fringe-cult magazine produced between 1979-2006, published & edited by Michael Peter Langevin & Jerry Snider, features "Blast On Through: A Review of The Western Lands by William S. Burroughs" written by the noted Beat scholar Michael White. This insightful & lengthy essay analyzes WSB's final volume of his late trilogy (1987, see our item No.s...... More

Lytham St. Annes, England: Screen Edge / Klaus Maeck, 1991. First DVD Edition. (Schottlaender F25 B, pg. 128). “Commissioner of Sewers” is a film on the great William S. Burroughs by German filmmaker Klaus Maeck, here appearing in the First DVD Edition, preceded only by a VHS edition of 1989. The film includes footage of WSB’s public readings of “The Western Lands” (New York, NY: Viking Penguin, 1987) & other..... More

Kyoto, Japan: Kyoto Shoin International Co., Ltd., 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. A large-format art book-catalog with beautiful reproductions of William S. Burroughs' artworks from two 1990 exhibitions: "Paper Cloud," a series of painted file folders shown at the Seed Hall in Tokyo & Akarenga Hall in Sapporo, Japan during June & July; & "Thick Pages," a series of works on handmade paper with mixed media shown at Steven Lowe's Gallery..... More

St. Louis, MO; New York, NY: Lococo-Mulder, 1993. First Edition. Glued Wrappers. "Only way to see Heaven is from Hell. And Tangier has afforded me vistas of Heaven- blue notes trickling down magic mountains, the Pipes of Pan informing that everything is alive and vitally significant to YOU. Sweeping away the daily abrasive grind. "Who's that at the door? Give him some money. Send him away." Snarling street boys, little..... More

Berlin, Germany: Druckhaus Galrev, 1994. First Edition Thus. Softcover. The first German-language edition of William S. Burroughs' classic late work, published two years after the first American trade edition. WSB had a life-long fondness for & deep interest in felines. This writer recalls his furry friends joining me on the couch as I sat opposite the Beat-&-Beyond icon at his home; & we stood at the grave of Ruski, his..... More

New York, NY: Serpent's Tail / High Risk Books, 1995. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. (Shoaf 88a. pg. 63; Schottlaender A66b.). "Bulldozers are destroying the rain forests, the cowering lemurs and flying foxes, the singing Kloss's gibbons, which produce the most beautiful and variegated music of any land animal, and the gliding colugo lemurs, which are helpless on the ground. All going, to make way for more and more devalued human..... More

New York, NY: Seaver Books, 1996. First Edition Thus. Softcover. (Shoaf 80b., pg. 76; Schottlaender H6c. pg. 143). Offered here is Victor Bockris' (b. 1949) classic work of Beat biography, "With William Burroughs: A Report From the Bunker." Here are just a few examples of Bockris' memoir-reportage. First, WSB in conversation with Tennessee Williams, New York, 1976. Burroughs asks Williams if he has ever written any film scripts, to which..... More