New York, NY: Giorno Poetry Systems, 1979. First Edition. LP. The now-classic LP by William S. Burroughs (1914-1997), our patron saint-demon and the Founder’s Founder of the Beat Generation-&-Beyond, John Giorno (1936-2019); and Laurie Anderson (b. 1947). In 1981, Giorno Poetry Systems — the epochal, multimedia publishing enterprise of noted New York poet & artist, John Giorno — released You’re the Guy I Want to Share My Money With, a...... More

San Francisco, CA: Beach Books Texts & Documents, c. 1966. Second Edition (First WSB-Approved Edition). Stapled Wrappers. "A Report on the Synthesis of the Apomorphine Formula" (front cover); this cut-up classic by William S. Burroughs is offered here in the first incarnation of its second edition (to the best of our art-&-science knowledge as set forth below), preceded only by the elusive & effectively unobtainable first edition by Ed Sanders'..... More

London, England, UK: Industrial Records Ltd., 1981. First U.K. Edition. Vinyl LP Record in Sleeve. "About These Recordings: The recordings on this album have been selected from a large number of reel to reel and cassette tapes stored in the William S. Burroughs Communications Archive in Kansas. Most of the tapes were made on domestic recorders and on some there was large-scale physical deterioration. Hi-Fi quality was impossible and the..... More

New York, NY, USA: Penguin, 1977. First Edition Thus. Softcover. "Here is the first complete and unexpurgated edition of one of the most powerful books ever written about drug addiction. Following its hero from his Midwestern birthplace to New York, New Orleans, And Mexico City, Junky depicts the addict's life—his hallucinations, his ghostly nocturnal wanderings, his strange sexuality, his hunger for the needle. Above all, these searing pages present a...... More

London, England, UK: Paladin, 1992. First U.K. Softcover Edition Thus, Second Printing. “I awoke from The Sickness at the age of forty-five, calm and sane, and in reasonably good health except for a weakened liver and the look of borrowed flesh common to all who survive The Sickness… Most survivors do not remember the delirium in detail. I apparently took detailed notes on sickness and delirium. I have no precise..... More

Brighton, England, UK: Urgency Press Rip Off Press, 1972. Limited Pirated Edition. Stapled Sheets. Signed by (pirate) publisher Roy Pennington. In 1965, William S. Burroughs (1914-1997), Founder's Founder of the Beat Generation-&-Beyond who is the very Patron-Icon of our enterprise, published TIME, his cut-up parody of the "American Century" 's flagship publication (along with LIFE & FORTUNE), a key work in WSB's life-long effort to subvert the powers-that-be establishment's control..... More

San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1965. First Edition, Second Printing. Softcover. "THE YAGE LETTERS: an early epistolary novel by William S. Burroughs, celebrated author of 'the Soft Machine' & 'The Ticket That Exploded'. Burroughs' 1951 account of himself as Junkie, published under the pseudonym William Lee, ended 'Yage may be the final fix'. In letters to Allen Ginsberg, an unknown young poet in New York, his journey to the..... More

San Francisco, CA: Beach Books Texts & Documents, 1967. Variant First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. A gathering of three works, authored or heavily influenced by William S. Burroughs & his cut-up methods at their late high point (in order): "Objective Galactic Time Demolition Plan 23" by Claude Pelieu (1934-2002), the French avant-garde artist & writer who with his wife Mary Beach was a friend & collaborator with WSB & the publisher..... More

New York, NY: Portents / Gotham Book Mart, 1970. First Printing. Softcover. Signed by Ann Charters to Robert Hawley, co-founder (with Stevens van Strum) of Berkeley's Oyez Press. "SCENES ALONG THE ROAD is a collection of snapshots of a group of men before they became, as Jack Kerouac put it, "famous writers more or less." In the 1940s and early 1950s, when most of the snapshots were taken, they were..... More

San Francisco, CA: Sore Dove Press, 2021; 2024. Limited Edition. Sheets in Folio. “In August of 2021 Jack Hirschman died in his sleep. As a way of mourning and healing from this enormous loss, I began drawing his portraits with charcoal on paper. I did a dozen or so from the photos of him that I had taken and a few from other people’s photos I found online. Then I...... More

Coventry, England, UK: Beat Scene Press, 2021. Limited First Edition Thus. Stapled Wrappers. An essay which originally appeared & can still be found on the indispensable website that serves as "A William S. Burroughs Community": Reality Studio (realitystudio.org). The author of this essay, archived under "Editor" on the RS site, is not named. Most probably it is Jed Birmingham, the venerable super-scholar & collector of WSB who is the chief..... More

London, England, UK: Ambit, 1966. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "Much of Burroughs' difficulty as a writer resides in the fact that he is a writer, systematically creating the verbal myths of the mid-century at a time when the oral novel, or unillustrated strip cartoon, holds almost exclusive sway." (J.G. Ballard, pgs. 46-47). The twenty-seventh number of the quarterly British literary journal founded in 1959 & edited until 2013 by British..... More

London, England, UK: Fisk Publishing Company Ltd., 1970. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "To take up the points raised by Mr. Hubbard, as regards mass media, I am completely in agreement with what he says and have expressed the same opinions in writings. Newspapers stir up trouble and that gives them copy. One murder played up in the newspapers will trigger off similar murders. Ritual murders are the thing now and..... More