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
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: 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
np: nd. 16 x 20" vintage black and white photograph. A remarkable, large format, high contrast photograph of William S. Burroughs, descending a narrow stairway or trapdoor into darkness, with his shadow thrown large on the wall, foregrounded by a sinister laughing silhouette of a face. Though the verso bears..... 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
np: nd. 6 3/4 x 10" vintage silver print. Band identified in ink at verso, along with a handwritten price of $2, but no photographer named. Some minor creasing and some adhesion traces to surface of image, else very good. More
Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1967. First edition. 4to, 167 pp, bound in full black cloth. Printed dust jacket. Near fine, with some minor toning to the top edge of the text block, in a very good dust jacket with some overall rubbing and some small, innocuous abrasions to rear..... More
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Berkeley: Turtle Island Foundation, 1979. First edition. 4to, 16 pp. incl. covers, saddle-stapled wraps. first and only issue of this great periodical, which features an interview with Robert Duncan on Jaime De Angulo, an interview with Carl Sauer on Man and Nature, and excerpts from Zora Neale Hurston's "Aspects of..... More
Bronxville, NY: The Laughing Buddha Press, 1984. First edition thus. Narrow 8vo, ii, 49 pp, saddle-stitched in illustrated card wraps. One of a limited edition of 200 hand-numbered copies. Translation of the author's terrific essay on the mystery novel, done into American by A. W. Sadler and Roberto Yahni. A...... More
Santa Monica: Cameron Parsons Foundation, 2015. First edition. 4to, 80 pp, bound in blue cloth with titles embossed in white and gray, and illustrated pastedown to front panel. No dust jacket as issued. Produced in conjunction with the exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Fine. More
London: Fulgur Esoterica, 2014. First edition. 4to, 173 pp, bound in deep blue cloth pictorially stamped in black. Illustrated dust jacket. One of 1390 copies issued in cloth, out of a total edition of 1560. A beautifully designed book featuring poems, drawings, and diary entries, reproduced in facsimile from the..... More
![An Exposure of Mediums' Tricks and Rackets [Little Blue Book No. 1746]. C. Samuel Campbell](/pictures/thumb/26747.jpg?v=1544579163)
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, stapled beige-orange wraps printed in black. Light toning, else fine. Division Leap stocks thousands of other Little Blue Books and other Haldeman-Julius publications in our Chinatown bookshop. Please contact us if you are searching for a particular title. More
![How to Read Fingerprints [Little Blue Book No. 1754]. C. Samuel Campbell](/pictures/thumb/26745.jpg?v=1544579161)
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, stapled beige blue wraps printed in black. Toned at extremities with a couple light creases to wraps, but very good. Division Leap stocks thousands of other Little Blue Books and other Haldeman-Julius publications in our Chinatown bookshop. Please contact us if you are searching for..... More
![True Prison Escapes [Little Blue Book No. 1746]. C. Samuel Campbell](/pictures/thumb/26748.jpg?v=1544579163)
Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, stapled beige-orange wraps printed in black. Light toning, else fine. Division Leap stocks thousands of other Little Blue Books and other Haldeman-Julius publications in our Chinatown bookshop. Please contact us if you are searching for a particular title. More
London: Independent Project Records, 1985. 4 x 6" postcard, letterpress in four colors on thick chipboard stock. Addressed at verso by hand, but not postmarked. A postcard made for this very early show by Camper Van Beethoven, here still called Camper Van Beethoven and the Border Patrol, along with Box..... More
Baltimore: Laughing Man Press, 1975. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled wraps. One of a limited edition of 300 signed and numbered copies. In addition, this copy is further inscribed to fellow poet Gerrit Lansing, in the year following publication. Very good with some minor foxing and toning to wraps. More
Chicago: Redoubt Press, 1990. First edition. 8vo, perfect bound in wraps. The first edition, not to be confused with the revised edition later published by 2.13.61. Very good with light overall rubbing to the wraps. More
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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
Wendell, MA: Fewer & Further Press, 2006. First edition. 8vo, saddle-stapled in wraps. One of a limited edition of 200 copies. Association copy, inscribed to fellow poet Gerrit Lansing at the title page. fine. More
London: Carribean Situationist, 1973. First edition. Poster. Poster, 18 x 23", offset printed in b&w on recto only. Illustrated with photographs. Prints a text by Mustapha Khayati from issue no. 11 of the Internationale Situationniste, here translated anonymously in English. Illustrated with three photographs of riots in Hungary, Trinidad and..... More
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Girard, Kansas: Haldeman-Julius, nd. 32mo, stapled beige-yellow wraps printed in black. Fine, and scarce thus. Division Leap stocks thousands of other Little Blue Books and other Haldeman-Julius publications in our Chinatown bookshop. Please contact us if you are searching for a particular title. More
England - Latin America: Beau Geste Press, 1973. First edition. 16mo, [58] pp, perfect bound in wraps. Printed in two colors on kraft paper. Artist's book featuring text in two languages above horizontal lines printed in purple, a beautifully realized book. Wraps lightly creased, with some rubbing along the spine..... More
New York: Redtape, 1982. First edition. 4to, offset printed in black and white with two color cover, saddle-stapled. The debut issue of one of the most essential magazines to come out of the Downtown Writing scene, the "the manual to the darker side of the era." (Stosuy p. 458). This..... More
Lisboa: Livraria Guimaraes, 1903. First edition. 8vo, 270 pp, rebound at a contemporary or early date in marbled boards backed in red leatherette titled and banded in gilt. Original wraps not present. Illustrated with 13 photographs and drawings. Text in Portuguese. Previous owner's early and tasteful typographic bookplate to fep..... More