Paris, France: Christian Bourgois Editeur, 1979. First French Edition. Softcover. This is the first French edition of Ah Pook is Here and Other Texts, published the same year as the UK English edition. Interestingly, WSB's "Other Texts" (or "autres contes") in this edition are completely different from those to be found in the first English edition. In the latter are The Book of Breething & Electronic Revolution; in this edition..... More

New York, NY: Penguin Books, 1979 (1973). First Softcover Edition Thus. Softcover. "A distant cry echoes down cobblestone streets through all the grey basements up the outside stairs to a windy blue sky. "Exterminator!" "(pg. 8) In the pioneering study of WSB's work, "William Burroughs: The Algebra of need (expanded edition, 1977)," Eric Mottram writes: "Exterminator! is a call for help, a cry of surprise, a shout of recognition, and..... More

Berkeley, CA: Blue Wind Press, 1980. First American Edition. Hardcover. "Port of Saints is the mind-boggling story of a man whose alternate selves take him on a fantastic journey through space, time, and sexuality. The last work written by William S. Burroughs before his return to the United States in 1973, PORT OF SAINTS is partly experimental autobiography, partly profound exploration of the concept of sexuality, partly nightmare voyage through..... More

New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1983. Limited First Edition. Hardcover in Slipcase, Shipping Carton. One of 300 copies numbered & signed by William S. Burroughs. The second work in the great later trilogy of novels by William S. Burroughs, a founding father of the Beat Generation; a literary-cultural figure of gigantic influence & inspiration. Preceded by Cities of the Red Night f (1981) & followed by The Western..... 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: Viking Penguin, Inc., 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by William S. Burroughs "I am forced to the appalling conclusion that I would never have become a writer but for Joan's death, and to a realization of the extent to which this event has motivated and formulated my writing. I live with the constant threat of possession, and a constant need to escape from possession, from Control. So..... 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

n/p; Ann Arbor, MI; New York, NY: Jorge Garcia-Robles; Priceless Preservation; Viking/ the Penguin Group; Twelve/ Hachette Book Group, 1990-2018. Original Negatives; Original Digitization; First Editions. Negatives; Disc in Case; Hardcovers. During 1990, Mexican author Jorge Garcia-Robles traveled to Lawrence, Kansas to visit & interview William S. Burroughs, as part of his research that led to the publication of his acclaimed study, The Stray Bullet: William S. Burroughs in Mexico..... More