New York, NY; London, England: grove Press; Flamingo/Harper Collins Publishers, 2000. Publisher's Mock-Up Pre-Edition; First Editions; First UK Edition. Three Hardcovers; One Softcover. One of two first editions/first printings inscribed & signed by James Grauerholz to Jim McCrary. In this volume are the last private musings & reflections of William S. Burroughs, written from mid-November 1996 through July 30, 1997- only a few days before his death on August 2..... More

R. Crumb et al. Encinitas, CA: FreeThought Publications, Fall 2000. First Edition. loose folded sheets. A variant first printing of the William S. Burroughs retrospective issue of this literary journal, featuring contributions from James Grauerholz, Charles & Pamela Plymell, Anne Waldman, Jeffrey Weinberg & yours truly, Arthur S. Nusbaum. My article, "Back at the Pond", is featured in our "NewsBeat" department. Among the many reproduced artworks is an illustration of..... More

R. Crumb et. al. Encinitas, CA: FreeThought Publications, 2000. First edition. Loose folded sheets. A William S. Burroughs retrospective issue of this literary journal, featuring contributions from James Grauerholz, Charles and Pamela Plymell, Anne Waldman, Jeffery Weinberg, & yours truly, Arthur S. Nusbaum. My article, "Back at the Pond", is featured in our NewsBeat department. Among the many reproduced artworks is an illustration of WSB by R. Crumb. Folded into..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2007. Limited First Edition Thus. Stapled Wrappers. Signed by David Ohle. "I knew (William S. Burroughs) for the last decade of his life, when he lived in Lawrence, KS. There were the Thursday evening dinners I cooked at his house, the trips to the country for fishing and target shooting, the drives to Kansas City for his weekly six-pack of methadone, and finally, pall bearing..... More

Milan, Italy: Adelphi Edizione, 2009. First Italian Edition Thus. Softcover. This Italian translation of The Ticket That Exploded is the first edition issued by this publisher, & is therefore a First Edition Thus. Originally released in 1962 by the legendary Olympia Press in Paris, & with many subsequent editions in the U.S., U.K. & elsewhere, TTTE is a cut-up novel from the period following the breakthrough of Naked Lunch, where..... More

Milan, Italy: Adelphi Edizione, 2010. First Italian Translation. Softcover. This is the first Italian translation of "The Yage Letters Redux," first published in the U.S. in 2006, a greatly expanded, reorganized edition, edited & with a lengthy, most skullerly introduction by top WSB authority Oliver Harris. A very rare version of the latest & most comprehensive edition of this WSB/AG classic. Text in Italian, translated by Andrew Tanzi. As new..... More

Seattle, WA: Fantagraphics Books, Inc., 2012. First Printing. Hardcover. "The saga of how (William S. Burroughs and Malcolm Mc Neill) began working together, how they embarked upon a quixotic quest to create a "word/image novel" the likes of which the world had never seen...their struggle to bring it to the public ultimately collapsed in dashed hopes and broken dreams is the stuff of legend...(a) complimentary volume to The Lost Art..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2012. Limited First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "When I got a chance to speak to (William S. Burroughs) in person...I asked him about Magic, and whether he would care to recommend any books on the subject? Without hesitation he mentioned Dion Fortune's 'Psychic Self-defense', even though he qualified it as "a bit old-fashioned." Then, without much prompting at all on my part he began to talk..... More

Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2016. First Printing. Softcover. "...I suggest that Burroughs seeks to reconcile humanity and the natural world more widely in his texts. This manifests in both his narrative practices and the thematic content of his texts, which reveal a lifelong engagement with ecological issues. Thus the essential question of this book is, To what extent can Burroughs' texts be evaluated in an ecocritical framework. Although..... 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

San Francisco, CA: RE/Search Publications, 2019. First Edition. Softcover. "For the first time in print, these forgotten conversations are now hereby available for your reading pleasure. From the beaches of Morocco to a penthouse in France; to London, San Francisco and Kansas- now you can vicariously relive the experiences and tribulations of five of the previous century's free thinkers and inventors of culture: W(illiam) S. Burroughs and friends." (back cover)..... More

Surrey, UK: Calder Publications / Alma Books, 2020. First Edition Thus. Softcover. “First published in 1963 and representing Burroughs’ literary breakthrough in the UK, Dead Fingers Talk is, in the words of Burroughs scholar Oliver Harris, ‘a prophetic work of haunting power,’ a unique experiment in writing that has for too long been overlooked. Combining new material with rearranged selections from Naked Lunch and his cut-up novels The Soft Machine..... More

Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2021. Limited First Edition Thus. Stapled Wrappers. An essay which originally appeared & can still be found on the indispensable website that serves as "A WIlliam S. Burroughs Community": Reality Studio (realitystudio.org). The author of this essay, archived under "Editor" on the RS site, is not named. Most probably it is Jed Birmingham, the venerable super-scholar & collector of WSB who is the chief mastermind..... More