New York, NY: Blackstone Publishing, 2016. First Edition. CDs. “The Western Lands is the most eagerly awaited new novel by the most visionary American novelist of the twentieth century—a haunting Book of the Dead for the nuclear age. Every new work from the pen of William S. Burroughs is an important literary event. This is especially so in the case of The Western Lands. For in this novel, Burroughs completes..... More
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Santa Barbara, CA: Bradford Morrow, 1979. Limited First Edition. Softcover in Over-Wraps. "Like the ship's captain who rushes into the first lifeboat in drag, Benway rejects the pompous hypocrisy of his profession and this rejection is so outrageous as to provoke laughter rather than censure." (from Introduction, pg. 10) A variant passage from William S. Burroughs' breakthrough work, Naked Lunch, starring his immortal routine-character Dr. Benway, the unforgettably over-the-top, breezily..... More
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Holland, OH: Blackstone Audio / Midwest Tape LLC, 2009. First Edition Thus / Repackaged Edition. CDs. (Schottlaender E17c., pg. 110). "Naked Lunch is a blueprint, a How-to Book...Black insect lusts open into vast, other planet landscapes...Abstract concepts, bare as algebra, narrow down to a black turd or a pair of aging cajones..." (pg. 215) Among the essential primary works associated with the Beat Generation along with Allen Ginsberg's “Howl” &..... More
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New York, NY: ibooks Inc., 2005. First Edition Thus, Second Printing / Rescinded Edition. Softcover. “It was Allen Ginsberg who introduced us—if that’s the appropriate word for what happened that evening in spring, San Francisco, 1956. I’d come into the city for the first time a few weeks before and had met Allen through the fact that both he and poet friend Ed Dorn were working at the Greyhound Bus..... More
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San Francisco, CA: Beach Books, Texts and Documents, 1967. First Edition. Softcover. (Maynard & Miles, B29a, pg. 98-14; Shoaf, Section II, No. 35, pg. 72). “With Revolvers Aimed…Finger Bowls” is the classic cut-up work by Claude Pelieu (1934-2002), the respected French artist, poet, and translator whose path overlapped greatly with William S. Burroughs and the Beat Generation in both New York and San Francisco. Among Pelieu’s earliest published works were..... More
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Kent, OH: The Kent State University Libraries, 1978. Limited First Edition Thus. Stapled Wrappers. "The Genius mixd too strong a cup./ At noon the lethargy remains./ We cannot shake it off.// Sleep lingers all our lifetime in our eyes/ as night at midday hovers/ in the fir tree boughs./ The Genius brews his lethal cup./ All things swim and glitter." ("The Dreamers," first two stanzas, unpaginated) A collection of poems..... More
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