New York, NY: Seaver Books, 1996. First Edition Thus. Softcover. (Shoaf 80b., pg. 76; Schottlaender H6c. pg. 143). Offered here is Victor Bockris' (b. 1949) classic work of Beat biography, "With William Burroughs: A Report From the Bunker." Here are just a few examples of Bockris' memoir-reportage. First, WSB in conversation with Tennessee Williams, New York, 1976. Burroughs asks Williams if he has ever written any film scripts, to which..... More

New York, NY; London, England; New York, NY: Olympia Press; Sphere Books Limited; Coronet Communications, 1970; 1971. First Edition; First Edition Thus. Softcover. "SPEED is the autobiographical novel of William Burroughs Jr's methedrine inspired Odyssey through New York's asphalt jungle. With painful candor he explores the horizons of the speed freak's world- hustling for dope and money, harassed by the police, crashing in overcrowded, garbage strewn pads, and guiding his..... More

Berkeley, CA: Blue Wind Press, 1979. First Softcover Edition. Softcover. "In this trenchant science-fiction screenplay treatment, William S. Burroughs explores the coming apocalyptic medical-care crisis, and the birth of a tenacious and inventive underground holistic medicine. The author of Naked Lunch, Junky, The Third Mind, and Cities of the Red Night treats this topical story in ultimate terms, with the dry, sophisticated humor he has mastered like no other modern..... 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

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: Serpent's Tail / High Risk Books, 1995. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. (Shoaf 88a. pg. 63; Schottlaender A66b.). "Bulldozers are destroying the rain forests, the cowering lemurs and flying foxes, the singing Kloss's gibbons, which produce the most beautiful and variegated music of any land animal, and the gliding colugo lemurs, which are helpless on the ground. All going, to make way for more and more devalued human..... More

London, England: John Calder (Publishers) Limited, 1984. First UK Edition Thus. Softcover. "From a well-argued attack on those who wish to over protect our privacy and sense of shame, to a remarkable series of interviews with Daniel Odier, and a consideration of the ways in which information is transmitted and received in different cultures of the past and in our own increasingly robotized world, The Job reveals the mind of..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. These are the last private musings and reflections of William S. Burroughs, written from mid-November 1996 through July 30, 1997- only a few days before his death on August 2. In his poignant introduction that details WSB's life in his twilight years, James Grauerholz writes that the journals "...include successive drafts of several short routines; remarks on books he was reading..... 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

New York, NY: Viking Penguin, Inc., 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by William S. Burroughs "I am forced to the appalling conclusion that I would never have become a writer but for Joan's death, and to a realization of the extent to which this event has motivated and formulated my writing. I live with the constant threat of possession, and a constant need to escape from possession, from Control. So..... More