London, England: Paladin Grafton Books, 1986. First UK Edition. Softcover. The first British edition of the hallucinatory novel by Kathy Acker, the late William S. Burroughs-influenced experimental writer. A softcover original issued the same year (1986) & in similar trade format as the first Grove Press/Evergreen US edition. Both editions also have the same bold front cover illustration by Catherine Denvir. "If Miller and Burroughs didn't curl your hair, Acker's..... More

Elmwood Park, IL: The Dalkey Archive Press, 1989. First Printing. Softcover. This fall 1989 number of the venerable literary journal is partly dedicated to articles by & about Kathy Acker, the late experimental writer often cited as a literary post-punk progeny of William S. Burroughs among other influences. Includes the transcript of a conversation between Acker & Ellen G. Friedman, as well as articles by Acker herself, Naomi Jacobs, Robert..... More

New York, NY: Grove Press, Inc., 1972. First American Edition. Hardcover. "Love & Napalm: Export U.S.A. is an apocalyptic novel about the irrational violence of the modern world. The central character is a doctor who is suffering from a nervous breakdown. His dreams are haunted by the figures of John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, dead astronauts and auto-disaster victims..."(from front flap) Originally published in 1969 in the UK with..... More

Paris, France: L'Herne, 1973. First Printing. Softcover. An early French-language study of the life & work of Jack Kerouac by Victor-Levy Beaulieu, the Quebecois novelist, playwright & biographer. A first printing (dated October 26, 1973 on colophon page) of a softcover original in sewn binding, part of the publisher's Les Livres Noirs series. Text in French. A collectible Kerouac rarity with the perspective of an author who shared his subject's..... More

New York, NY: Situations, 1998. First Separate Edition. Stapled Wrappers. The title work along with eleven other short prose-poem stories by Ted Berrigan (1934-1983), the great New York School poet's-poet & a canonical category onto himself. A note preceding this collection states that it first "...appeared in Angel Hair #4, Winter 1967/68, thanks to editors Lewis Warsh and Anne Waldman, and has not been published since..." This first separate publication..... More

New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1972. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Translated and edited by Paul Bowles. This is the first US edition. The dust jacket has one very short tear on front panel & the back endflap is creased, otherwise fine. Near Fine. More

San Francisco, CA: Angel Island Publications, 1958. First Edition. Periodical. This is the very scarce first issue of Contact, published in 1958. Contributors to this premiere issue include Ray Bradbury, Evan S. Connell, S.I. Hayakawa, William Saroyan, Alan Watts, William Carlos Williams and others. Front & back covers are worn & spine creased, but the inside pages are in very good condition, slightly yellowed with edgewear. Signature-bound softcover. An important..... More

Northville, MI: Sun Dog Press, 2005. First edition. Softcover. "Though best known as the author of two of the earliest Beat novels (Who Walk in Darkness and The Bold Saboteurs), Chandler Brossard (1922-93) displayed his exuberant imagination best in the shorter works he wrote during the second half of his life, all of which are collected here."(back cover) This volume is edited & with an introduction by Steven Moore, who..... More

London, England: Sphere Books Limited, 1971. First British 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 paranoid needle-brother Chad through the dangerous city streets. Totally stripped of remorse..... 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

New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1981. First Edition. Hard Cover. In his article Burroughs' Theatre of Illusion: Cities of the Red Night, in the Spring 1984 issue of The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Steven Shapiro describes this work as WSB's "....most densely overdetermined work of fiction." With great insight, and fitting density, he writes that "Burroughs' discourse encompasses contradictory exigencies of obsession and freedom, replication and mutation, disaster..... More

New York City, New York: The Viking Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. Maynard & Miles A23, pp. 83-84. In one of the earliest book-length critical studies of WSB's work, the excellent William Burroughs: The Algebra of Need, Eric Mottram writes that "Exterminator! is a call for help, a cry of surprise, a shout of recognition, and a demand for the agent and his god to be exposed. Its formal virtuosity..... More

London/New York: High Risk Books, 1995. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. First published in 1991 as a sumptuous limited edition by the Whitney Museum of American Art, this is the first trade edition of a late short novel that "tells an important story about environmental devastation in a way that only Burroughs can tell it" (back cover blurb). Issued without dust jacket, in glossy pictorial boards. A beautiful copy. As New..... More