San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1984. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. (Schoaf Section 1, No. 61a, pg. 53; Schottlaender A54, pg. 28). “Trenchant writings by that sardonic ‘hombre invisible,’ William Seward Burroughs, perpetrator of Naked Lunch and other shockers. These malefic and beatific, mordant and hilarious straight-face reports on life are mostly from scattershot publications in obscure places, foreign and domestic. Including complete texts from White Subway, Cobblestone Gardens..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1984. First Trade Edition Thus. Hardcover. "Naked Lunch established William S. Burroughs' reputation as a major postwar American writer, and it remains the single work by Burroughs that has received the most critical attention: it is a landmark constantly reread and reinterpreted. Since the first publication of Naked Lunch in Paris...Burroughs has created a body of fiction that makes him one of our foremost..... More

New York, NY: Aperture/ Silver Mountain Foundation, Inc., 1985. First Printing. Sewn Wrappers. This vintage number of the venerable, highbrow fine photography magazine features William S. Burroughs' short essay-introduction to a portfolio of images by Robert Walker entitled "Robert Walker's Spliced New York". This little gem of a piece is an expression of the broader ideas on photography as practiced by WSB himself, an elucidation of concepts that are similar..... More

London, England: John Calder, 1986. (1) Trade Softcover Edition Thus / (2) First Printing. (1) Softcover / (2) Stapled Wrappers. "'Dutch' Schultz, who was gunned down by rivals in New York in 1935, is part of the mythology of the American gangster era that reached its peak during prohibition--a mythology that now rivals that of the old west. It has always fascinated William Burroughs, who had derived much of his..... More

Gothenburg, Sweden: Radium 226.05, 1986. First Printing. Glued Wrappers. This first number of the literary & art journal published in Sweden, edited by Ulrich Hillebrand & CM von Hausswolff, features "A Crimson Path They Go," a late post cut-up short story by William S. Burroughs (pgs. 11-12). Provocative, timely & hilarious, this is an exemplary later little gem by the Founder's Founder of the Beat Generation-&-Beyond, the patron Saint-Demon of..... More

New York, NY: Viking Penguin Inc., 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. "The Western Lands," published in 1987, is the final volume of William S. Burroughs second trilogy (the "Cities of the Red Night" trilogy) and was preceded by the book that bore that title in 1981 and 1984's "The Place of Dead Roads." In the introductory acknowledgments, Burroughs thanks Norman Mailer & his "Ancient Evenings" volume for "inspiration," 3 others for..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1988. First edition thus. Softcover. This large-format softcover is the first Evergreen edition of the compendium of three major novels by William S. Burroughs, preceded by a Black Cat edition in 1980 in smaller format & a different cover. This copy is in near mint condition, with only very slight wear to top & bottom corners of spine & residue above & left of..... More

New York, NY: Henry Holt and Company, 1988. First Printing. Hardcover. (Shoaf Section IV, No. 124, pg. 181; Schottlaender H33-A). “He next decided to experiment with mirror-gazing. He had in his room two high armories with heavy plate-glass mirrors on the doors. He told Burroughs that he would gaze for twenty-four hours if he had help in being handed food and No-Doz pills and cigarettes and joints….Brion at first saw..... More

London, England: Picador/ Pan Books Ltd., 1989. First UK Edition. Hardcover. " "Interzone" was the working title for the novel William S. Burroughs composed from roughly 1953 through 1958- the work that, when finally published under the title Naked Lunch, revolutionized the modern novel to a degree perhaps unmatched by any other work in this century. Burroughs' readers will recognize "Interzone" as the dreamlike locus of so much of his..... 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