New York, NY: Seaver Books, 1986. First American Edition. Hardcover. "...William S. Burroughs has produced a body of work unique in our time. He has laid bare the seamy side of human existence, exposed the blatant hypocrisies of politics, science, and big business, and stripped the veneer from the surface respectability of the middle-class world. His satire is acidly funny, his sexual fantasies as wild as they are deeply disturbing..... 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

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

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

Madras, India; New York,NY: Hanuman Books, 1992. First Edition. Softcover in Over-Wraps. "I am trying to get the pictures to move. It almost happens: A face comes into almost miraculously clear focus, smiles, snarls, speaks. Then back into the picture, there on the paper, the wood. Look outside at the trees and leaves in front of the bedroom window. They move in the wind. The same thing is happening. I...... More

New York, NY: Hyperion, 1993. First American Edition. Hardcover. "William Seward Burroughs. Described by Norman Mailer as "the only living American novelist who may conceivably be possessed of genius," this unique underground visionary has lived up to these words. Burroughs's influence has exploded far beyond the ethereal borders of the literati into the realm of popular culture- he has influenced a remarkable spectrum of adventurous writers, artists, filmmakers and musicians...In..... 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: 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

Encinitas, CA: Gary L. Aposhian & FreeThought Publications, 2000. Limited First Printing. Loose Folded Sheets; Folded Sheet in envelope. Jim McCrary's limited edition copy with limited flyer signed by poet Bradley Mason Hamlin & artist Christine Fullwood. This number of the independent literary journal chiefly edited & published by Gary Aposhian (1962-2007) is mostly dedicated to William S. Burroughs, Founding Father of the Beat Generation & among the most influential..... More

Brussels, Belgium: Sub Rosa, 2013. First Edition Thus. LP. (Schottlaender E5, pg. 108). William S. Burroughs’ “Break Through in Grey Room” consists of mid-60s cut-up tape machine recordings made by WSB in various locations in London, Paris, & elsewhere. As James Grauerholz writes on the back cover blurb of the LP, “…now the wild boys were in the streets, in London and Paris too, and Burroughs was inspired to hope..... More

Seattle, WA: Fantagraphics Books, Inc., 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed & signed by Malcolm McNeill to Charles & Pamela Plymell. The tale of Ah Pook as an artistic endeavor is, in true Burroughsian fashion, a work that is as complex, storied, and appropriately dark as its writer: William S. Burroughs (Feb 5, 1914-Aug 2, 1997). Initially intended as a collaboration between McNeill and Burroughs in 1970, when McNeill was in..... More

London, England: Notting Hill Editions, 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. "A fascinating account by one of the world's leading neurologists of the profound influence of William Burroughs on his medical career. Lees relates how Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch and troubled drug addict, inspired him to discover a ground-breaking treatment for Parkinson's Disease. Lees journeys to the Amazonian rainforest in search of cures, and through self-experimentation seeks to find the answers..... More

Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2019. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "William S. Burroughs Cutting Up the Century is the definitive book on Burroughs' overarching cut-up project and its relevance to the American twentieth century. Burroughs' Nova Trilogy...remains the best known of his textual cut-up creations, but he committed more than a decade of his life to searching out multimedia for use in works of collage...Burroughs created an eclectic and wide-ranging..... More