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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.....
LONDON'S SECRET LIFE
N.P., Inc. / Royal House, 1968. First Edition. Wraps. Mass market paperback. Green and black wraps. Mild wear to covers, faint scuffing to corners and spine ends. Very good plus. Explicit sleaze putting on sophisticated airs, dedicated "To all the frantic hipster moths, / Burning themselves out in the flame.....
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.....
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.....
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.
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.....
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.....
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.....
TORNADO ALLEY
(Cherry Valley, NY): Cherry Valley Editions, 1989. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. Pictorial wraps. INSCRIBED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR, with a small drawing, to title page: "To / Maelstrom- / S. Clay Wilson / Twist and Shout / 1990." Mild handling wear. Overall clean, sound. Very good-plus. 53pp.
TORNADO ALLEY
n.p. Cherry Valley, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth boards, title stamped in silver. No dust jacket as issued. Minor bumping to spine ends. Near fine. SIGNED by Burroughs on title page. This copy no. 11 of an edition of 100 signed copies. Collection of short prose pieces, illustrated.....
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WILLIAM BURROUGHS / NAKED LUNCH / PUB. DATE: NOV. 20, 1962 [etc.] [Cover Title, Grove Press Promo Pamphlet for First American Edition of Naked Lunch]
New York: Grove Press, 1962. Wraps. 8vo. Saddle-stapled photographic wraps. Near fine. Just a bit of toning to wraps. Pages sharp and clean. [14] pp., plus covers. One or approximately 100 copies of this promotional pamphlet issued in preperation for the 1962 first US edition of NAKED LUNCH from Grove.....
THE YAGE LETTERS
(San Francisco): City Lights, (1975). Second edition. Wraps. 8vo. Original pictorial wraps. Mild rubbing and edgewear. Else clean, tight, and sharp overall. Near fine. Collection of letters chronicling Burroughs' trip through the Amazon jungles in search of hallucinogens, with Ginsberg's replies. 72pp.
THE THIRD MIND
New York: The Viking Press, (1978). First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Quarter black cloth over black boards in photographic dust jacket. Near fine in like DJ. SIGNED by both Burroughs and Gysin to half title. Moderate yellowing to jacket, particularly to flaps. Clean and sharp throughout. 192pp. Landmark publication by Gysin.....