On February 5, William S. Burroughs would have been 105 years old. Although he boarded the Nova Express going on 22 years ago, his legacy lives on.
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Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2008. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Beat Scene No. 56 features an inside look at "the Latin American notebook of William S. Burroughs, "an item that surfaced in October of 1999 as part of Sotheby's "Allen Ginsberg & Friends" auction in New York City. Also included are features on recovered William S. Burroughs footage that has been subsequently made into a documentary, a look at artist... More
[Item #2564]Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2010. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Beat Scene Magazine No. 61 opens with an extensive, well-researched article on the time William S. Burroughs spent in Denmark in 1957 when visiting his close friend Kells Elvins, a fellow intellectual he had known since childhood. The time Burroughs spent in Denmark had a marked and notable influence on many of the passages Burroughs would soon unveil in his... More
[Item #2567]Coventry, England: The Beat Scene Press, 2014. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This number of the magazine-format literary journal published by Kevin Ring in the UK is a special issue devoted to the Beats in Britain. With great, rarely reproduced 1966 photographs of a dapper William S. Burroughs in London with his "brolly" (umbrella) including on front cover; articles by the late Ken Brooks about his meeting WSB at the legendary... More
[Item #1933]Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2015. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Beat Scene No. 77 begins with an excerpt from one of the newest posthumously assembled story collections from poetic giant Charles Bukowski, followed shortly thereafter by an interview with Philip Whalen biographer David Schneider. Also featured is an article on William S. Burroughs' time in London and another on the Hardiment Suitcase--a suitcase left behind by Burroughs and subsequently recovered... More
[Item #2569]Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2016. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. Issue No. 83 of Beat Scene Magazine begins with a great essay with a then-81 year old Lawrence Ferlinghetti about the infamous HOWL trial and the original San Francisco scene surrounding the publication of Ginsberg's most widely-known work. Ferlinghetti, as ever, is quick to dispel rumors and misconceptions about the event and that time, fly-swatting the mythology away from the... More
[Item #2952]William S. Burroughs, 2003. Milan, Italy: Adelphi Edizione, 2003. First Italian Edition Thus. Softcover. This Italian translation of The Soft Machine is the first edition issued by this publisher, & is therefore a first edition thus. First published by Olympia Press in Paris in 1961, TSM is another high cut-up production in the wake of Naked Lunch, influenced by Brion Gysin's observation that "writing is fifty years behind painting" in... More
[Item #1611]Chicago, IL: Big Table, Inc., Spring 1959. First Printing. Softcover. A famous & essential collector's item, this is "the complete contents of the suppressed winter 1959 Chicago Review" as noted on the front cover. As editor Irving Rosenthal explains in his introductory editorial, the authorities of University of Chicago Press would not allow contributions by William S. Burroughs or Jack Kerouac in the Chicago Review, due to their then-very controversial... More
[Item #1803]Paris, France: NRF, 1960. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the venerable French literary journal features a translation from English to French of William S. Burroughs' essay, "Deposition: Testimony concerning a Sickness" ("Temoignage a propos d'une maladie"). Published concurrently with the English version in the Evergreen Review, WSB wrote the essay "...to help prepare the way for eventual publication of Naked Lunch in the U.S.A." (Maynard & Miles, C12..... More
[Item #2189]London, England: John Calder in association with Olympia Press, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Published only in the UK, this work combines texts from the Olympia Press editions of Naked Lunch, The Soft Machine & The Ticket That Exploded, along with new additional material, cut-up & folded-in to form a new work. A very rare William S. Burroughs collectible item, in exceptionally great condition with the book mint except for slight... More
[Item #1511]Paris, France: Olympia Press, 1963. First Edition. Soft Cover. Maynard & Miles C54, p. 122 A bi-monthly literary compilation by Maurice Girodias, the original publisher of Naked Lunch. Includes an episode from The Ticket That Exploded by William S. Burroughs, 3 poems by Gregory Corso, & more. A circle the size of a penny has been rubbed off the front cover, crease in spine & slight wear to front &... More
[Item #1040]London, England: Ambit, 1964. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. This issue of the quarterly literary journal from the dawn of London's swinging sixties (notice the front cover graphics) features a 3-column cut-up with explanatory author's note by William S. Burroughs, "Martin's Mag". A very significant WSB rarity in exceptionally fine condition, with only mild soiling to outside front & back covers, interior mint. Maynard & Miles C92, pg. 128. 6-1/2" x.... More
[Item #1513]London, England; New York, NY; Stockholm, Sweden; Tokyo, Japan: The Olympia Press; Paladin-HarperCollins; Flamingo-HarperCollins; Grove Press; Kawadeshoboshinisha; Bokforlaget Pan/Norstedts; Mammoth Publications, 1965-2009. First Edition; First Editions Thus; Third Printing. Four Softcovers; Two Hardcovers; One DVD. Jim McCrary, poet & educator, is a resident of Lawrence, Kansas. During William S. Burroughs' later years there, McCrary was his friend & associate; a member of Burroughs Communications led by James Grauerholz. Offered here..... More
[Item #2885]London, England: William S. Burroughs, Circa 1965. Original Manuscripts. Single Sheets. Hand-typed manuscripts by William S. Burroughs. "Dear Charles Plymell:/ "Now" is an excellent (magazine) and I thank you for/ sending it to me-- Reading through the issue I typed out passages that/ struck some particular chord of association in one column and in another/ column pieces of dream and text and the last words of Dutch Schultz and/ the... More
[Item #2908]San Francisco, CA: Dave Haselwood Books, 1967. Second Edition. Softcover. First published by the Auerhahn Press in 1960, this is the Second Edition of The Exterminator, with different colors on covers, & a slightly larger format. (Maynard & Miles, A4(b) p. 22) One of 1000 copies. An early & very important collaboration between WSB & Gysin, they both contribute texts & Gysin provides calligraphic illustrations, including on the covers. "The... More
[Item #1425]Paris, France: L'Herne, 1969. First Printing. Softcover. A compilation of writings by William S. Burroughs, translated from English into French by Mary Beach & Claude Pelieu. Beach & Pelieu were long-time collaborators with WSB, & important writers, publishers & artists over many years. They were also the mother & stepfather of Pamela Beach Plymell, who along with her husband Charles Plymell also collaborated with & published works of WSB. A.... More
[Item #2041]Buffalo, NY: Intrepid Press, 1969. First Edition. Stapled Covers & Sheets. This is the double issue of the literary journal edited by Allen De Loach & published by his Intrepid Press, dedicated to works by & about William S. Burroughs. The WSB pieces compiled in this issue, some reprinted from previous small publishers & some appearing for the first time here, include Salt Chunk Mary, Roosevelt after Inauguration & a.... More
[Item #1427]Paris, France: Editions Pierre Belfond, 1969. First Printing. Softcover. This is the first printing of the very first edition of Daniel Odier's interviews with William S. Burroughs, later published in many French & English-language editions more familiarly to WSB collectors as The Job. On the final, colophon page is a printing date of January 17, 1969, & a legal notice of the first trimester of that year. These are among... More
[Item #2039]Milan, Italy: Sugar Editore, 1971. First Italian Edition. Signature-bound Softcover. (Maynard & Miles, D37, pg. 195) This is the first Italian translation of the first UK version of William S. Burroughs' The Last Words of Dutch Schultz, published the previous year. Text in Italian. The last 8 leaves of this copy are slightly wrinkled as issued by the publisher, & pg. 88 has discoloration at left margin, also as issued... More
[Item #1514]New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1971. First Edition. Hard Cover. Maynard & Miles A20a, pp. 73-74. In her fine critical biography, William S. Burroughs, Jennie Skerl writes that "The wild boys represent the release of demonic energy in conscious fantasy, which Burroughs believes is a means of human liberation- both personal and social. By bringing the unconscious irrational desires of the individual and the group to consciousness and by... More
[Item #1047]New York, NY & Tangier, Morocco: The Gaea Society, 1971. First Printing. Softcover. Maynard & Miles, C304, pg. 168. This second number of the literary journal issued in Spring 1971 features a piece of short fiction by William S. Burroughs, Pages from Chaos. WSB is also listed as a contributing editor. Also contributions by Paul Bowles (also the consulting editor), John Ciardi, Michael McClure, Joyce Carol Oates, May Swenson &... More
[Item #1878]Paris, France: Christian Bourgois Editeur, 1972. First Edition Thus. Softcover. This is the first translation from English into French of William S. Burroughs' mid-career work based on the transcribed words spoken by the American gangster Dutch Schultz on his deathbed in 1935, after being ambushed & shot along with his associates. Written as the script of a prospective film treatment, it was first published in a limited edition in the... More
[Item #2190]Sussex, England: Urgency Press Ripoff Edition, 1972. First Edition Thus. Stapled sheets. TIME, by William S. Burroughs, with drawings by Brion Gysin, was originally published by Ted Berrigan's C Press in 1965. This is the Urgency Press Rip-Off Edition, one of 495 copies printed on a mimeograph duplicator for distribution at the Bickershaw Festival in the UK. A doubly underground version of an iconic example of WSB's efforts to subvert... More
[Item #1050]London, England: Aloes, 1973. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Signed by William S. Burroughs to noted scholar & collector Donald L. Kaufmann. "The white subway gathered silent speed as buildings and landscapes slid by- faster- faster- a blur of film flakes then pictures leaped into sharp focus- mist and frogs in 1920 roads- morning sleep of detour- needle beer in Sid's. He was in a long tunnel of old photos... More
[Item #2903]New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1973. First Evergreen Black Cat Edition, First Printing (First Edition Thus). Softcover. Maynard & Miles, A20 (d), pg. 77. In her fine critical biography, William S. Burroughs, Jennie Skerl writes that "The wild boys represent the release of demonic energy in conscious fantasy, which Burroughs believes is a means of human liberation- both personal and social. By bringing the unconscious irrational desires of the... More
[Item #1877]n/p (London, England & San Francisco, CA); New York, NY: William S. Burroughs; Malcolm McNeill; Abrams, 1973; 2011. Original Manuscript; Original Artwork; First Edition. Three Single Sheets in One Frame; Hardcover. Original text & artwork by William S. Burroughs & Malcolm McNeill. During the early 1970s, French-Canadian humorist & impresario Michel Choquette planned a compilation of comic strips that would all relate to the just-past decade of the 1960s. He... More
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