[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
Münster [actually Berlin]: Aurin Verlang, 1987. 16mo, 78 [2] pp, perfect bound in illustrated wraps. Text in German. Prints the title work by Benjamin aMünster [actually Berlin]: Aurin Verlag, 1987. 16mo, 78 [2] pp, perfect bound in illustrated wraps. Text in German. Prints the title work by Benjamin as well as... 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
San Francisco: Analecta Press, [1968]. 9 x 14", offset litho on both recto and verso. The promotional poster for the book, illustrated with drawings by R. Crumb, with lengthy blurbs for Blazek's work by t.l. kryss, Don Cauble, Karen Waring, d. r. wagner, William Wantling, Eric Oatman, Charles Bukowski, Gershon... More
London: Peter Owen, 1968. First edition thus. Dust jacket designed by Keith Cunningham, one of several striking Bowles related publications the designer created for the publisher. Near fine, with a touch of dust soiling to the top edge, in a near fine jacket lightly rubbed at extremities, which is unclipped... More
New York: Horizon Books, 1967. First edition. 8vo, bound in full linen cloth. Photographically illustrated dust jacket. Association copy, warmly inscribed by Boyle at the half-title to the critic Stanley Kauffman and dated July, 1978; With all warm good wishes, and my admiration of many years' standing, to Stanley Kauffman... More
Brighton, UK: Unicorn Books, 1971. First edition. Oblong 8vo, unpaginated. Bound in full brown cloth pictorially stamped in gilt to the front panel. One of a limited edition of 99 copies, each of which is numbered and signed by Burroughs. The book was printed by Richard Moseley at the Graphic... More
New York: American Theatre for Poets, 1965. 4to, 7 leaves, mimeographed from typescript, and side-stapled into a mimeographed cover sheet printed on silver-flecked cream paper. The rare transcript of the 1965 reading, which prints "Transcript of Dutch Schultzs Last Words" and "On The Back Porch Of His Farm" from The... More
London: The English Bookshop, 1965. Original pressing. 12" vinyl LP, Catalog no. LAGF 1. The scarce original pressing by the English Bookshop, preceding the ESP-Disk issue the following year in the US. The record features Burroughs himself reading excerpts from The Naked Lunch and Nova Express. Program notes in English... 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
Paris: Two Cities Editions, 1960. First edition. 8vo, 63 pp, printed wraps illustrated at back cover with drawings by Brion Gysin. One of 1000 copies printed. Burroughs' third book, and the first standalone publication to employ the cut-up technique as Gysin & co. envisioned it. Maynard & Miles A3a. Margins... More
New York: Grove Press, 1960. 8vo, [16] pp [incl. covers], saddle-stapled in wraps illustrated with a photograph of Burroughs. An advance excerpt of the text, here preceded by texts by Southern and Seldon on the work. The advance salvo of the shock to come. Some faint toning to margins, else fine. More
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, saddle-stapled in beige wraps printed in black. No date on copyright page. Light toning else a clean, near fine example. More
London: Peter Owen, 1973. First edition thus. Translated from the Arabic by Paul Bowles. Superb dust jacket designed by Keith Cunningham, one of several striking Bowles related publications the designer created for the publisher. Near fine, with some dust soiling and spotting to the top edge and a touch of... More
Santa Barbara: Cadmus Editions, 1979. First edition. 12mo, printed wraps. Foreward by Gavin Lambert. With a note by Tennessee Williams. Fine in a near fine jacket lightly crumped at extremities. Glassine wrapper is toned, but very good. More
Black Mountain: Black Mountain College, 1955. First edition. 12mo, illustrated wraps (by John Altoon). A battered, worn, fair only copy, heavily creased at spine, with a fragile, if holding binding. Beat but complete, and scarce in any condition. More
New York: Top Stories, 1985. First edition. 8vo, 37 pp, saddle-stapled wraps. Published as No. 22 in the superb Top Stories series, devoted to experimental prose. A remarkable narrative involving comic artists. Not to be confused with the later title of the same name from Vintage Books. Some light curling... More
New York: Galaxy, 1953. First edition. 8vo, illustrated wraps. This issue notable for the cover story, The Defenders by Philip K. Dick. very good with usual page toning and a short nick to rear wrap, light crease to spine. More
[East Village]: c. 1966. 4to, 37 leaves printed on rectos only, laid into a manila envelope with the title and author rubberstamped in black. Lacking the Dylan Liberation Front position paper found in some copies, but with Weberman's one page foreward, with a single holograph correction as issued. The infamous... More
Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer, 1978. First edition. 12mo, 109 [3] pp, wraps. Without printed band announcing the Robert Walser prize, as usually found. Association copy, inscribed by Fritz in the year of publication to Dr. Hermann Mayer. "dern lieben, hochgeschalsler Herr Ministerialral Dr. Hermann Mayer, ohne desser Kulturpolitik in... More
Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer, 1978. First edition. 12mo, 109 [3] pp, wraps. Without printed band announcing the Robert Walser prize, as usually found. The Austrian writer's first book, the size of which does little to foreshadow the length and textual intricacies of her latter, mammoth works, though the irony... More
Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1985. First edition. 12mo, 215 pp, printed wraps. With a publisher's advertising pamphlet laid in. With a lengthy inscription from Marianne Fritz at the title page: "für den lieben Herrn Ministerialrat Dr. Hermann Mayer, dem ich nie vergessen werde, wie er sich geschreckt hat damals... 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
New York: Crawdaddy Publishing Co., 1975. First edition. 4to, wraps. This issue of the music rag publishes the last interview with the reclusive J. D. Salinger to that point (aside from the 1974 phone thing with the NY Times), which originally appeared in the Claremont, N. H. newspaper The Eagle... More
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