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

Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books Ltd. First Edition. Softcover. Maynard & Miles, B27(a), pg. 98. A compilation of writings issued only in the UK as a softcover original, edited by Donald Allen & Robert Creeley. Features an excerpt from The Naked Lunch (as it was originally titled) by William S. Burroughs, along with a short biographical note on WSB in an appendix. Also contributions by Richard Brautigan, Gregory Corso, Lawrence..... More

New York, NY: Arnold Gingrich, 1968. First Printing. Glued Wrappers. This vintage number of the venerable men's magazine chiefly edited by Harold Hayes famously includes a compilation of articles under the title "Chicago: The Year of Our Lord, 1968," with contributions (in order) by Terry Southern ("Grooving in Chi"); Jean Genet ("The Members of the Assembly"); William S. Burroughs ("The Coming of the Purple Better One") & John Sack ("In..... More

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

Cambridge, England: Henri Chopin/ Blackmoor Head Press, 1971. Limited First Edition. Perfect Bound. "I have frequently spoken of word and image as viruses or as acting as viruses, and this is not an allegorical comparison. It will be seen that the falsifications in syllabic Western languages are in point of fact the virus mechanism. If we can infer purpose from behaviour, then the purpose of a virus is TO SURVIVE..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, 1971. First Edition. In her fine critical biography of 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 playing with these forces in artistic structures, Burroughs..... More

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

London, England: Aloes seolA, 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..... More

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

New York, NY: Fred McDarrah, 1975. First Edition. Original Gelatin Hand Print. Taken at a Columbia University Reading on April 17, 1975 by noted photographer Fred W. McDarrah. Black & white gelatin hand print from the original negative by McDarrah. Caption written on back by McDarrah, with his signature above his address label which is affixed to the back of the photo. Burroughs appears in tweed jacket and tie, gazing..... More

Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley Editions, 1976. First Edition. "Boys lean over iron balconies in the summer night whispering and giggling, turn in black waters of the old swimming hole with ivory flash of ambiguous limbs, roar past each other in stolen cars with woppish cries and crash into the viaduct cracking concrete to its bloody steel bones. Boys whiz through the air out of autos, roller coasters, crashing planes..... More

London, England: Transatlantic Review, June 1977. First edition. Softcover. The final issue of the noted literary journal, a collaboration between editors in London & New York. Features the short story "To Talk to Joe" by William S. Burroughs. Also contributions by Paul Bowles, Iris Murdoch, Harold Pinter, John Updike, an early item by T.C. Boyle & much more. A very rare & important literary artifact, in very fine condition with..... More

San Francisco, CA: Searchlight Publishing, 1978 (Reprinted 1988). Second Printing. Loose Folded Sheets. This penultimate number of the musical, cultural & literary underground journal originally published & edited by V. Vale features an interview with William S. Burroughs conducted by Ray Rumor (undoubtedly a pseudonym). In this transcribed interview, WSB opines on cultural-societal, political & even economic topics- very few of his statements relate, at least directly, to his literary..... More