London, England, UK: Universal-Tandem Publishing Co. Ltd., 1970. First UK Softcover Edition Thus. Softcover. "No author in recent years has caused the same stormy controversy as William Burroughs, the Beat writer and former drug-addict who crashed into literary prominence some years ago when his "definitive hip book..." The Naked Lunch was first published. Is he, as Norman Mailer asserts, "the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed..... More

Brighton, England, UK: Urgency Press Rip Off Press, 1972. Limited Pirated Edition. Stapled Sheets. Signed by (pirate) publisher Roy Pennington. In 1965, William S. Burroughs (1914-1997), Founder's Founder of the Beat Generation-&-Beyond who is the very Patron-Icon of our enterprise, published TIME, his cut-up parody of the "American Century" 's flagship publication (along with LIFE & FORTUNE), a key work in WSB's life-long effort to subvert the powers-that-be establishment's control..... More

London, England, UK: Tapocketa Press, 1977. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. “Bob Cobbing’s cut-ups were begun in March, 1956, and this, the first volume of his collected poems, prints all that were done. The method was to decide on the number of lines, clip out of newspaper lines of the required number, and paste them up in an effective order. Success was to use all the lines, failure to have one..... More

London, England, UK: Writers Forum, 1968. Second Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "MR WATKINS GOT DRUNK AND HAD TO/ BE CARRIED HOME..."/ a party piece: date 1st Feb. 1964./ SCISSORMAN: JEFF NUTTAL/ from an idea by WILLIAM BURROUGHS/ GUESTS as opposite wrote their own forecasts of/ what would happen PLUS accounts in advance from/ pupils of Ravenscroft School A TAPE RECORDER recorded or did not record the proceedings/ the creative CUTUPRY was..... More

Derby, England: Brian Mills, 1971. Limited First Edition. Loose Folded Sheets. Signed by Brian Mills. This is the eleventh number of the Dada-Surrealism-inspired literary/collage-art journal edited & published by Brian Mills (possibly the acclaimed British television director (1933-2006) whose background was in the arts). With hand-colored front cover image, & vintage circa-Victorian era collaged images, texts throughout. The juxtapositioning & mixture of disparate images & texts were practiced by Mills'..... More

Derbyshire, England: Brian Mills, 1970. First Edition. Folded Sheets. Signed by Brian Mills. This is the eighth number of the Dada-Surrealism-inspired literary/collage-art journal edited & published by Brian Mills (possibly the acclaimed British television director (1933-2006) whose background was in the arts). With hand-colored front cover image, & vintage circa-Victorian era collaged images, texts throughout. The juxtapositioning & mixture of disparate images & texts were practiced by Mills' predecessors in..... More

Derbyshire, England: Brian Mills, 1970. First Edition. Folded Sheets. Signed by Brian Mills. “To a background of taped sounds (electronic? processed piano? voices?), Beuys, dressed in his (usual?) wide-brimmed hat and individual multi-pocketed dirty white (suede?) shoplifter’s waistcoat, attempted, with an irregular stick, to turn over a small blackboard which slithered uncooperatively across the wooden floor of a studio in Edinburgh College of Art. A small audience sat around the..... More

Paris, France: Softcover, 1960. First Edition. Softcover in Sewn Binding. "Solemn accountants are jumping ship, sir...All of them,/ sir...In the last skimpy surplus, sir...'Room for one more/ outside, sir' they said and plunged Seventh Teen Age Future/ Molotov Cocktails...Last seen 'swimming desperately in/ sewage..." (William S. Burroughs, "From San Diego Up to Maine," first paragraph, pg. 21) The very first published presentation of cut-up writings by William S. Burroughs, Brion..... More

San Francisco, CA: Beach Books Texts & Documents, 1967. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. A gathering of three works, authored or heavily influenced by William S. Burroughs & his cut-up methods at their late-high point (in order): "Objective Galactic Time Demolition Plan 23" by Claude Pelieu (1934-2002), the French avant-garde artist & writer who with his wife Mary Beach was a friend of & collaborator with WSB & the publisher of..... More

Paris, France: Bourgois/Seuil; Christian Bourgois Editeur, 1976; 1984. First French Edition; First French Edition Thus. Softcover. (1) [Shoaf, 26c. p. 39]. Edited and Translated by Mary Beach and Claude Pelieu (and soon after, published) in 1976, “White Subway” was initially published in London by our friend-&-colleague the great Jim Pennington (through his Aloes Books imprint) in 1973. It compiles sixteen short works of imagination by WSB from the late-fifties to..... More

Gottingen, Germany: Expanded Media Editions, 1973. First Edition. Softcover. Signed by Hammond Guthrie. “Cut-up is a means of escape…Escape from truth into truth format of re-arranged space…Cut-up is a direction to a beginning….(an extension of our visual and mental experience in the sense of true improvisation & experimentation)…leaving footprints of an invisible line or word…” So writes Hammond Guthrie, author of this unique booklet in the revolutionary Cut-Up Tradition half-invented..... More

Ashland, KY: BullHead Books, 2020. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. A chapbook with the title poem by Joe Napora, the passionate & prolific American poet, editor, publisher & activist. Subtitled "Will Never Land on the Hand Rail Again/ [a translation]," this recent production of Napora's own BullHead imprint is rather enigmatic, with no information, including the identity of the 19th-century gentleman whose image is repeated on covers (perhaps an ancestor of..... More

Ostheim / Rhön: Verlag Peter Engstler, 1995. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. From the integral and prolific Verlag Peter Engstler comes this slim German-language volume from the late, venerable Jürgen Ploog (1935-2020) -- fellow Burroughsian and celebrated friend of the international authority on Beat Generation studies, the European Beat Studies Network (ebsn.eu). Our research indicates that Ploog's "Black Maria" deals in part with philosopher Paul Virilio, "...a media critic and founder..... More