Santa Monica, CA: Smart Art Press, 1996. First edition. softcover. William S. Burroughs Paintings 1987-1996. A catalog for an exhibition of William S. Burroughs' paintings presented jointly at Track 16 Gallery & Robert Berman Gallery in Santa Monica, CA in 1996. A beautiful production with die-cut front cover, fine reproductions of WSB paintings, a wonderful photo of WSB with Timothy Leary, & more. In very fine condition with only very..... More

New York, NY: Brant Art Publications Incorporated, 1996. First Printing. Perfect-Bound in Wrappers. This number of the venerable American art journal features an article by David Joselit entitled "Burroughs Virology," concerning the exhibit of William S. Burroughs' artworks, scrapbooks, etc. occurring at that time (1996) at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art: "Ports of Entry: William S. Burroughs and the Arts." An annotated, most erudite art-historical essay, that bestows..... More

New York, NY: The New Yorker Magazine, Inc., 1997. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This number of the venerable New Yorker magazine was published just several weeks after the death of William S. Burroughs (February 5, 1914- August 2, 1997), & features "Last Words" (pgs. 36-37), a two-page article under its "Personal History" category with excerpts from WSB's last diary-journal entries written from May 3, 1997 to the day before his..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, 1998; 2000. First Edition. Hardcover; Softcover. Including an Association Copy inscribed & signed by James Grauerholz to Jim McCrary. (Shoaf, Section I, No. 92, pg. 65; Schottlaender, A76 (A), pg. 22). The first comprehensive compilation of shorter works & excerpts from longer works which covers all of the phases of William S. Burroughs' over half-century of literary achievement. Initially published in 1998, the year after..... More

Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi Press, 2000. First Edition. Softcover. [ISBN: 9781578061839]. "The interviews collected here provide an aperture into the philosophies, methods, and quirks of a man who wrote Queer, Junky, Naked Lunch, Nova Express, Cities of the Red Night, My Education, and many other works...Not surprisingly, the topics Burroughs touches upon are wide-ranging: his relationships to the Beats, legends surrounding his personal life, drugs, gay liberation, collaboration, the..... More

New York, NY; London, England: grove Press; Flamingo/Harper Collins Publishers, 2000. Publisher's Mock-Up Pre-Edition; First Editions; First UK Edition. Three Hardcovers; One Softcover. One of two first editions/first printings inscribed & signed by James Grauerholz to Jim McCrary. In this volume are the last private musings & reflections of William S. Burroughs, written from mid-November 1996 through July 30, 1997- only a few days before his death on August 2..... More

R. Crumb et al. Encinitas, CA: FreeThought Publications, Fall 2000. First Edition. loose folded sheets. A variant first printing of the William S. Burroughs retrospective issue of this literary journal, featuring contributions from James Grauerholz, Charles & Pamela Plymell, Anne Waldman, Jeffrey Weinberg & yours truly, Arthur S. Nusbaum. My article, "Back at the Pond", is featured in our "NewsBeat" department. Among the many reproduced artworks is an illustration of..... More

R. Crumb et. al. Encinitas, CA: FreeThought Publications, 2000. First edition. Loose folded sheets. A William S. Burroughs retrospective issue of this literary journal, featuring contributions from James Grauerholz, Charles and Pamela Plymell, Anne Waldman, Jeffery Weinberg, & yours truly, Arthur S. Nusbaum. My article, "Back at the Pond", is featured in our NewsBeat department. Among the many reproduced artworks is an illustration of WSB by R. Crumb. Folded into..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2007. Limited First Edition Thus. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by David Ohle. "I knew (William S. Burroughs) for the last decade of his life, when he lived in Lawrence, KS. There were the Thursday evening dinners I cooked at his house, the trips to the country for fishing and target shooting, the drives to Kansas City for his weekly six-pack of methadone, and finally, pall bearing..... More

Milan, Italy: Adelphi Edizione, 2009. First Italian Edition Thus. Softcover. This Italian translation of The Ticket That Exploded is the first edition issued by this publisher, & is therefore a First Edition Thus. Originally released in 1962 by the legendary Olympia Press in Paris, & with many subsequent editions in the U.S., U.K. & elsewhere, TTTE is a cut-up novel from the period following the breakthrough of Naked Lunch, where..... More

Milan, Italy: Adelphi Edizione, 2010. First Italian Translation. Softcover. This is the first Italian translation of "The Yage Letters Redux," first published in the U.S. in 2006, a greatly expanded, reorganized edition, edited & with a lengthy, most skullerly introduction by top WSB authority Oliver Harris. A very rare version of the latest & most comprehensive edition of this WSB/AG classic. Text in Italian, translated by Andrew Tanzi. As new..... More

Seattle, WA: Fantagraphics Books, Inc., 2012. First Printing. Hardcover. "The saga of how (William S. Burroughs and Malcolm Mc Neill) began working together, how they embarked upon a quixotic quest to create a "word/image novel" the likes of which the world had never seen...their struggle to bring it to the public ultimately collapsed in dashed hopes and broken dreams is the stuff of legend...(a) complimentary volume to The Lost Art..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2012. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "When I got a chance to speak to (William S. Burroughs) in person...I asked him about Magic, and whether he would care to recommend any books on the subject? Without hesitation he mentioned Dion Fortune's 'Psychic Self-defense', even though he qualified it as "a bit old-fashioned." Then, without much prompting at all on my part he began to talk..... More