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SOME OF THE IMPLICATIONS OF NONVIOLENCE IN THE MONTGOMERY RESISTANCE MOVEMENT
Brookville, OH: Reprinted from Balanced Living, 1961. First Edition. 8vo. Single folded sheet. SIGNED by Stewart at front. Minor toning with crease through center. Very good. 4pp. Offprint from BALANCED LIVING (Dec. 1961) of a speech delivered at Quaker House in Chicago on March 15, 1956, concerning the Montgomery bus.....
BEATITUDE #17 (Oct-Nov 1960)
San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1960. First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Side-stapled photographic cover wraps. Offset duplicated rectos only. Very good plus. Minor wear. Else sound and clean. [22]pp. plus cover. The brainchild of Allen Ginsberg, Bob Kaufman, and John Kelly, BEATITUDE was originally conceived as a weekly newsletter for the.....
BEATITUDE #8 (August 15, 1959)
San Francisco: Bread and Wine Mission, 1959. First Edition. Wraps. 4to. Side-stapled pictorial wraps. Mimeographed rectos only. Very good. Minor wear. Terminal leaf loose from top staple. Else sound and clean. [23]pp. plus cover. The brainchild of Allen Ginsberg, Bob Kaufman, and John Kelly, BEATITUDE was originally conceived as a......
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COME INTO OUR GAME ROOM! [Poster]
n.p. 1966. Poster. Offset lithograph, dark red ink on stiff orange paper. Mild creasing, minor wear to corners. Very good plus. Poster by Beat-adjacent artist, poet, filmmaker, and Wichita native Bob Branaman. The same design, printed on a grey-blue ground, also appeared as the centerfold to Charles Plymell's underground newspaper.....
IT CATCHES MY HEART IN ITS HANDS: Gypsy Lou Series No. 1
(New Orleans): Loujon Press, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Small 4to. Multi-colored letterpressed sheets in cork-covered card wraps, with titles and skeleton decoration stamped to front cover, with wrap-around pictorial jacket (exhibtiing photo of the poet) - all as issued. An ornate production. SIGNED by Bukowski at first page in silver.....
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[Original Abstract Color Pastel Drawing]
(1965). Original pastel drawing on 11" x 8.5" paper. Image size approx. 10" x 7.7". Signed "Buk 65" at bottom. Mild wear, faint creasing here and there. Near fine. Striking early Bukowski drawing, executed in vibrant purple, grey, and black. Larger than most Bukowski pieces typically encountered. Exhibiting a strong.....
EARLY ROUTINES
Santa Barbara: Cadmus, 1982. First edition thus. Wraps. 8vo. Wraps. Mild edgewear and toning to covers; faint traces of soil. Very good plus. 54pp. First trade edition of this collection, following the limited edition of 1981.
THE COLDSPRING NEWS
[Flint]: [Fenian Head Centre Press], [1965]. First Edition. 7.25" x 12.5" approx. Printed recto only in three columns. Heavily toned. Very small chip at top left corner. Very good. Burroughs' newspaper-style cut-up, including "On The Back Portch Of His Farm," "Waiting The Survey Line Quite Some Years," and "Sad Servant.....
DEAD FINGERS TALK
London: Star / W.H. Allen, 1977. Wraps. 12mo. Mass market paperback. Moderate edgewear and corner scuffing, with a few faint creases. Pages toned. Very good plus. Paperback edition of this text, first published in 1963, combining sections from three early novels into a new narrative.
EARLY ROUTINES
Santa Barbara, CA: Cadmus Editions, 1981. First Edition. Wraps. Fine. 8vo. Printed pictorial wraps. Stamped number 047 of 349 to rear limitation page. Spine lightly toned. Otherwise about fine. 54pp. Precedes 1982 trade edition.
ELECTRONIC REVOLUTION / DIE ELECTRONISCHE REVOLUSION
Bonn: Expanded Media Editions, 1986. Fourth edition. Wraps. 24mo. Wraps. Light edgewear and scuffing. Very good plus. Bilingual English/German edition of Burroughs' two-part essay collection.
THE FOUR HORSEMENT OF THE APOCALYPSE
Bonn: Expanded Media Editions, 1984. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Wraps. Light edgewear and corner scuffing. Very good plus. Bilingual edition with English/German text of Burroughs' speech, delivered at the occasion of the Institute of Ecotechnics' 1980 Planet Earth Conference in Aix-en-Provence. Transcript by Terry Wilson. Cover art and illustrations by.....
JUNKIE
New York: Ace, 1973. Third printing. Wraps. 12mo. Mass market paperback. Mild edgewear and faint creasing. Pages toned. Very good plus. 157pp. Later printing of the novel, originally published under the name "William Lee" in 1953, with the original lurid drug-pulp wrappers updated to a picture-perfect 1970s Young Adult Novel.....
THE LAST WORDS OF DUTCH SCHULTZ
London: Cape Goliard, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's cloth in glassine jacket. SIGNED and numbered by Burroughs at title page. Very minor edgewear to glassine, else fine. 81pp. Burroughs' closet screenplay based on the gangster Dutch Schultz, who issued a string of nonsensical last words upon being shot in.....
THE LAST WORDS OF DUTCH SCHULTZ
London: Cape Goliard, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Publisher's cloth in glassine jacket. Minor edgewear and traces of soil to jacket. Near fine in very good plus jacket. 81pp. Burroughs' closet screenplay based on the gangster Dutch Schultz's final dying stream of consciousness, transcribed and preserved by a police stenographer.....
PAINTING
Amsterdam: Suzanne Biederberg Gallery, [ca. 1988]. First Edition. Wraps. Small 8vo. Printed wraps. Trace rubbing, toning. Otherwise about fine. Unpaginated. 16 full page, color reproductions of Burroughs' paintings.
THE SOFT MACHINE
New York: Ballantine Books, 1973. Wraps. 12mo. Mass market paperback. Moderate edgewear and creasing. Pages toned. Very good. First part of the Nova Trilogy, reprinted by Ballantine.
WHITE SUBWAY
London: Aloes, [1973]. Second printing. Wraps. 8vo. Saddle-stapled silver-grey wraps. Moderate edgewear, light creasing and toning. Second printing of 500 copies. Very good.73pp. Collects several of Burroughs' short pieces from the 1960s, with Paul Bowles' "Burroughs in Tangier."
WILLIAM BURROUGHS' "THE REVISED BOY SCOUT MANUAL": An Electronic Revolution
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2018. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Wraps. Near fine. Edited and with prefaces by Geoffrey D. Smith and John M. Bennett, with a foreword by Antonio Bonome and an afterword by V. Vale. First publication of this text in its complete form, based primarily on recordings.....
THE YAGE LETTERS REDUX
San Francisco: City Lights, 2006. Wraps. 12mo. Wraps. Near fine. New edition edited and with an introduction by Oliver Harris.
ROOSEVELT AFTER INAUGURATION
New York: Fuck You Press, 1964. First edition thus. Wraps. First edition thus. 12mo. Near fine in mimeo wraps. Uncommon Burroughs item from Ed Sanders' legendary mimeo press. Restores censored material from the first edition published by City Lights. A notourious work, one that led to an obscenity charge when.....
THE ADDING MACHINE: Collected Essays
London: John Calder, 1985. First UK edition. Wraps. 8vo. Wraps. Minor edgewear and moderate page toning throughout, else near fine. 201pp. Burroughs' essays, including "The Last Junky," "My Experiences With Wilhelm Reich's Orgone Box," and "Woman: A Biological Mistake." And others.
THE ADDING MACHINE: Selected Essays
New York: Seaver Books. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter cloth over boards. Near fine in like jacket. Mild wear at extremities. Else clean and sound. REVIEW COPY with promo slip laid in.
THE CAT INSIDE
New York: Viking Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pictorial boards, no dust jacket as issued. Minor edgewear. Near fine. Trade edition of Burroughs' "cat book," on his own particular cats and the nature of the species as a whole. Cover, title page, and end paper designs by Brion Gysin.....
CITIES OF THE RED NIGHT
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Salmon cloth spine over beige boards, in pictorial dust jacket. Light wear to jacket edges; mild scuffing to corners and spine ends. Boards sunned along top edges; corners and spine ends bumped. Foxing to top edge of page block.....