Various (Richter, Daniel (Editor); Allen, Daevid; Burroughs, William S.; Corso, Gregory; Hollo, Anselm; Malanga, Gerard; Norse, Harold; Nuttall, Jeff; Trocchi, Alexander et al.)

Residu No. 2 (Spring 1966)

London, England, UK: Daniel Richter, 1966. First Printing. Softcover. "Now look, boys, I'm going to say it simply- country simple. Martin is 'time'. Martin is 'reality'. Martin is blind. Mars Martin is a blind cave organism- old and evil presence from an old and evil cave. He orients himself by radar that is word lines. Shift cut tangle Martin's word lines and he can't find you. He can't find himself." (William S. Burroughs, "Martin's Folly," first seven lines, first column, pg. 17) The second number of the literary journal edited & published by Daniel Richter features "Martin's Folly" (quoted above), a classic routine-story by William S. Burroughs (1914-1997), Founding Father of the Beat Generation-&-Beyond, among the Greatest literary & cultural figures of all time, indeed the very Patron-Icon of our Third Mind enterprise named in his honor. This allusive, evocative, sinister & spine-tingling piece first appeared in the first number of the WSB-edited Moving Times the previous year; & while it is presented here in the two-column cut-up format, it is a late exemplar of that phase in WSB's writing with at least one foot in his return to (relative) linearity & lucidity. Maynard & Miles, C141, pg. 147; Shoaf, Section III, No. 88, pg. 133; Schottlaender (5.0 edition), C147, pg. 50. This wondrous issue also contains contributions of poetry, prose & art by such eminences most-familiar to our constituency including Gregory Corso, Anselm Hollo, Gerard Malanga, Harold Norse, Jeff Nuttall, Alexander Trocchi & more. With a special section/supplement entitled "The Mongol Review" featuring works by Richter, Daevid Allen (of Gong fame) et al. Trade-format softcover journal, presumed first-&-only printing with all points in the above-referred WSB bibliographies. From the collection of Richard Cupidi (b. 1945), our esteemed mate in the UK who was the manager of the fabled Unicorn Bookshop in Brighton, England founded by Bill Butler (1934-1977, the famed American-expatriate poet, bookseller & publisher). From the late 1960s through the early 1970s, Unicorn proffered & published many outstanding productions by WSB, J.G. Ballard et al., some of which have become the scarcest, all-but-unobtainable Beat-&-beyond collectibles (see for example our item No.s 8217, 8366). After prevailing against censorious harassment efforts, Unicorn closed & Butler died in short order. Cupidi went on to found the Public House Bookshop in Brighton, which had a long & successful run but which has also now closed, & he still resides there. We have been honored to obtain what Cupidi has termed "The Last Hurrah," all the remaining treasures of Unicorn & Public House, including this gem. Third Mind Books proceeds to reverently curate & incrementally present the Butler-Cupidi-Unicorn-Public House Legacy which is in our custodial hands- until it passes to yours. A particularly scarce literary collectible of especial interest to our core WSB devotees; in its singularly rarest contemporary form & with most-distinguished, relevant association & provenance. See also our item No. 9242. In relatively quite fine-to-very-fine condition with mild rubbing, faint scratching, mild-to-moderate age-toning (esp. at margins/edges) & some spotting to front, back covers & spine; very slight wear & a few tiny bumps, creases at/from edges & corners of same; mild rubbing, age-toning & occasional spotting to edges of text block. Interior fine-to-very-fine with only a hint of age-toning to blank inner covers & page leaves esp. at blank margins/edges; tiny bumps & small, faint creases at esp. upper corners of some leaves. Fine-Very Fine. [Item #9240]

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