Paris: Olympia Press, 1959. First edition. 12mo, printed wraps, with illustrated dust jacket. First edition, first state, with green border to title page, and price of 1500 francs to rear cove and dust jacket flap. One of 5000 copies issued. A very good or better copy, with a light reading..... More
Paris: The Olympia Press, 1963. Signed by Burroughs at the title page. 12mo, 183 pp, bound in green printed wraps and dust jacket illustrated by Ian Sommerville. One of 5000 copies printed. Maynard & Miles A6a. Spine faintly cocked, with a light crease to spine, and a touch of soiling..... More
New York: Fuck You Press, 1964. First edition. 24mo, [12] pp, mimeographed from typescript and drawing. Covers illustrated with impeccable provocation and grace by Allen Ginsberg. The first separate edition of this section of the Yage Letters, which the "paranoid printers" of the City Lights edition in England refused to..... More
London: Chatto & Windus, 1883. "Theodore Roosevelt Engages in a Little Literary Criticism" 8vo, 338 + 32 pp, gilt-stamped blue cloth. Gracefully inscribed by Theodore Roosevelt to Miss Abbey Lansing at the fep; "Mifs Abbey Lansing compiments of Theodore Roosevelt. I have marked (see 'contents') the poems worth reading; as many..... More
Paris: Olympia Press, 1955. First edition. Two volumes, bound in green printed wrappers. First editions. Each volume bears the original printed price of 900 francs on back cover of each, with a faint sheen of sticker ghost where a sticker was removed. The price was raised to 1200 Francs after..... More
New York: Ace Books, 1953. First edition. 12mo, wraps. Bound dos à dos with Maurice Helbrant's Narcotic Agent. The first edition of Burroughs' first novel. Poet, publisher and musician Dan Lauffer's copy, who helped the book's distribution and so many other publications of the underground in NYC by stocking at..... More
Paris: Gallimard, 1932. First edition thus. 8vo, 285 pp, photographically illustrated wraps. Translated from the American by M. Lemierre. First French edition, this copy marked as a press copy (S.P., or Service de Presse). The first French edition of Jack Black's masterpiece, a proto-beat novel and massive influence on underground..... More
Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1910. Leipzig: Johann Ambrosius Barth, 1910. The third, expanded, and first public edition. 8vo, vii, 234 pp. Bound in violet paper covered boards with titles stamped in white. Foreward by Ernst Mach. With the ownership signature of Wely v. Döring to title page, and on the fep a...... More
[Prague]: Druk H. Mercy, [1910]. 8vo,107 pp, stab-stapled and glue bound into violet printed wraps. Front and back panels of wraps detached but present, with the paper covering the spine mostly perished. Marginal annotations in pencil throughout. The second edition of this privately published and circulated utopian proposal to create an..... More