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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.....
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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.
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.....
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 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: 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.
CITIES OF THE RED NIGHT: A Boy's Book
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, [1981]. First Edition. Wraps. Tall 8vo. Uncorrected proof. Perfect bound in original pink wraps. Photocopy of jacket copy laid in. Title written in pen at spine. Spine sunned and edges lightly worn with creasing at corners. Marginalia throughout. Very good. Uncorrected proof copy belonging.....
CONCRETE AND BUCKSHOT / WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS PAINTINGS: 1987-1996
Santa Monica: Smart Art Press, 1996. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Wraps. Light edgewear and toning. Price sticker remnant to back cover. Very good plus. Catalogue of an exhibition held at Bergamot Station in Santa Monica, 1996, presented jointly by the Track 16 Gallery and the Robert Berman Gallery. Texts by.....
DOCTOR BENWAY: A Passage from The Naked Lunch
Santa Barbara: Bradford Morrow, 1979. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Lavender wraps in jacket, sunned along spine and top edge. SIGNED on title page. Limited edition of 324 in wrappers and 150 in cloth; this copy numbered 430. Designed and printed letterpress by Patrick Reagh. Near fine in very good plus.....
THE LAST WORDS OF DUTCH SCHULTZ: A Fiction in the Form of a Film Script
New York: Viking Press, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Green cloth. Mild edgewear and toning to jacket. Very good plus overall. 115pp. Burroughs' closet screenplay based on the gangster Dutch Schultz's final dying stream of consciousness, transcribed and preserved by a police stenographer following his shooting in a Newark bar.....
NAKED LUNCH
New York: Grove Press, (1959). First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Near fine in a very good jacket. First US edition / printing (both book and jacket) of the Beat masterpiece, which - copyright date aside - was not actually published in this edition until 1962. A landmark novel, it led to.....
NOVA EXPRESS
New York: Grove Press, (1964). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth with black lettering to spine, in original illustrated dust jacket. About very good plus in a very good DJ. SIGNED by Burroughs under his printed name on title page. Jacket a bit edgeworn with moderate toning, small chips at.....
PAPER CLOUD / THICK PAGES [ArT Random]
Kyoto: Kyoto Shoin Internatinoal, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio. Glossy pictorial boards. Light edgewear and bumping to corners, else near fine. Text and art by Burroughs; introductory text by Steven Lowe. Color plates of two series of Burroughs' shotgun paintings (Thick Pages) and file folder paintings (Paper Cloud).
PORT OF SAINTS
Berkeley: Blue Wind Press, 1980. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Wraps. Light edgewear, toning to pages and back cover. Very good plus. 174pp. Revised and extensively rewritten new edition of the novel, first published in its earlier form in 1973.
THE TICKET THAT EXPLODED
New York: Grove Press, (1967). First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Orange cloth with black lettering to spine, in original pictorial dust jacket. About near fine in a very good DJ. INSCRIBED and dated by Burroughs to title page: "For Peter Bollen / with all best / wishes / William S......
THE TICKET THAT EXPLODED
New York: Grove Press, (1967). First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Orange cloth with black lettering to spine, in original pictorial dust jacket. Very good plus, in a very good DJ. SIGNED by Burroughs under his name on title page. Jacket soiled to most of front panel, with an inchlong tear.....