Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago, 1958. First Printing. Softcover. This vintage number of the literary & arts journal published by the University of Chicago & chiefly edited by Irving Rosenthal features the second chapter of what would first be fully published the following year to become one of the defining pillar productions of the Beat Generation & Beyond: William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch. Famously, as we know, this excerpt..... More

New York, NY: Fuck You Press, 1964. First Edition. Stapled Wrappers. "Immediately after the Inauguration Roosevelt appeared on the White House balcony dressed in the purple robes of a Roman emperor and leading a blind toothless lion on a gold chain, hog-called his constituents to come and get their appointments. The constituents rushed up grunting and squealing like the hogs they were." (first paragraph, unpaginated) The famously scurrilous, vitriolic, delightfully..... More

Paris, France: Editions Pierre Belfond, 1969. First Printing. Softcover. This is the first printing of the very first edition of Daniel Odier's interviews with William S. Burroughs, later published in many French & English-language editions more familiarly to WSB collectors as The Job. On the final, colophon page is a printing date of January 17, 1969, & a legal notice of the first trimester of that year. These are among..... More

Germany: Expanded Media Editions, 1978. First Edition Thus. Softcover. (Shoaf Section I, No. 42, pg. 46; Schottlaender A37, pg. 15). Signed by William S. Burroughs. “When the Founder, Controller and Guardian of the ‘road to total freedom’ starts spouting John Birch talk, his road to total freedom’ is called into question and we have every right to ask precisely what his ‘method of solution’ is…” (from “Burroughs on Scientology,” pg..... More

New York, NY: Full Court Press, 1982. First Trade Softcover Edition. Softcover. "Written at a turning point in his life- when he was kicking drugs in Tangiers, writing Naked Lunch, and emerging from the literary underworld, these letters from (William S.) Burroughs to his young friend (Allen) Ginsberg are not only an intimate, diaristic account of who was doing what, with whom and when, but also a record, as Burroughs..... More

Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley Editions, 1977; 1978; 1979. First Printings. Stapled Wrappers. Four vintage, contiguous numbers of the literary review journal subtitled "A Small Press Review Magazine" co-published & with contributions by Legendary Literary Outlaw Charles Plymell, & chiefly edited by his wife & co-publisher Pamela Beach Plymell, productions of their Cherry Valley Editions imprint: (1) NRS Vol. 2 No. 8 & 9 (1977)- this issue features a lengthy..... More