St. Louis, MO; New York, NY: Lococo-Mulder, 1993. First Edition. Glued Wrappers. "Only way to see Heaven is from Hell. And Tangier has afforded me vistas of Heaven- blue notes trickling down magic mountains, the Pipes of Pan informing that everything is alive and vitally significant to YOU. Sweeping away the daily abrasive grind. "Who's that at the door? Give him some money. Send him away." Snarling street boys, little..... More

Atlanta, GA: The Coca-Cola Company, 1940; 1941; 1942. First Printings. Stapled Wrappers. "Remember, flowers are gay and beautiful. Arranging them should be pleasant. Don't take it so seriously that you cannot enjoy doing it. Study and read about it by all means, but not for fixed rules. Read to learn fundamentals of design, to get suggestions about plants, and, above all, for inspiration. Then with your flowers as material, your..... More

Brussels, Belgium: Sub Rosa, 2013. First Edition Thus. LP. (Schottlaender E5, pg. 108). William S. Burroughs’ “Break Through in Grey Room” consists of mid-60s cut-up tape machine recordings made by WSB in various locations in London, Paris, & elsewhere. As James Grauerholz writes on the back cover blurb of the LP, “…now the wild boys were in the streets, in London and Paris too, and Burroughs was inspired to hope..... 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

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

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

London, England: Picador/ Pan Books Ltd., 1989. First UK Edition. Hardcover. " "Interzone" was the working title for the novel William S. Burroughs composed from roughly 1953 through 1958- the work that, when finally published under the title Naked Lunch, revolutionized the modern novel to a degree perhaps unmatched by any other work in this century. Burroughs' readers will recognize "Interzone" as the dreamlike locus of so much of his..... More

New York, NY: Ace Books, Inc., 1953. First Edition. Softcover. "I have seen life measured out in eyedroppers of morphine solution. I experienced the agonizing deprivation of junk sickness, and the pleasure of relief when junk-thirsty cells drank from the needle. Perhaps all pleasure is relief. I have learned the cellular stoicism that junk teaches the user. I have seen a cell full of sick junkies silent and immobile in..... More

Paris, France: Olympia Press, 1959. First Edition. Softcover. "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 & Jack Kerouac's On the Road, the significance & far-reaching influence of William..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1962. First Printing; Fifth Printing. Hardcovers. "And only after the first shock does one realize that what Burroughs is writing about is not only the destruction of depraved men by their drug lust, but the destruction of all men by their consuming addictions...Burroughs is not only serious in his intent, but he is a writer of great power and artistic integrity engaged in a...... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1984. First Trade Edition Thus. Hardcover. "Naked Lunch established William S. Burroughs' reputation as a major postwar American writer, and it remains the single work by Burroughs that has received the most critical attention: it is a landmark constantly reread and reinterpreted. Since the first publication of Naked Lunch in Paris...Burroughs has created a body of fiction that makes him one of our foremost..... More

Madras, India; New York,NY: Hanuman Books, 1992. First Edition. Softcover in Over-Wraps. "I am trying to get the pictures to move. It almost happens: A face comes into almost miraculously clear focus, smiles, snarls, speaks. Then back into the picture, there on the paper, the wood. Look outside at the trees and leaves in front of the bedroom window. They move in the wind. The same thing is happening. I...... More

London, England: Aloes Books, 1973. First Edition. Softcover. "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 1920s roads- morning sleep of detour- needle beer in Sid's. He was in a long tunnel of old photos stretching back to his childhood- back- back- "STOP." " (from "Unfinished Cigarette," pg. 1)..... More