Comments on: Simon Finch and a High-Priced Naked Lunch http://realitystudio.org A William S. Burroughs Community Mon, 21 May 2012 11:22:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: harry nudel http://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/simon-finch-and-a-high-priced-naked-lunch/comment-page-1/#comment-154198 harry nudel Tue, 03 Jan 2012 02:00:36 +0000 http://realitystudio.org/simon-finch-and-a-high-priced-naked-lunch/#comment-154198 Tho the math is beyond my grade level....i'd say a few things..a) the book market is tamped down by the economics of both book collectors and university libraries, two sub sets that are not known to be particularly rolling it b) i try price 'extraoridinary books' not by comparing them to other 'established book' prices but objects in the world i live in...a STUDIO APARTMENT, 350-400 sq. feet in a doorman building sells for 350-400 thousand dollars & a Lichtenstein mannerist painting in the middle period for 42 MILLION...i don't know how much that is per sq Tho the math is beyond my grade level….i’d say a few things..a) the book market is tamped down by the economics of both book collectors and university libraries, two sub sets that are not known to be particularly rolling it b) i try price ‘extraoridinary books’ not by comparing them to other ‘established book’ prices but objects in the world i live in…a STUDIO APARTMENT, 350-400 sq. feet in a doorman building sells for 350-400 thousand dollars & a Lichtenstein mannerist painting in the middle period for 42 MILLION…i don’t know how much that is per sq

]]> By: james gray http://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/simon-finch-and-a-high-priced-naked-lunch/comment-page-1/#comment-37905 james gray Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:46:08 +0000 http://realitystudio.org/simon-finch-and-a-high-priced-naked-lunch/#comment-37905 Jed, A great blog, well thought out and well researched. George Soros, has this idea about markets he calls Reflexivity, in this theory he asserts that market 'values' are always wrong. I agree with him on this, as a Antiquarian book dealer, I price and sell books for what they are worth - to only the single institution or person who buys them. That said; markets are consensual while sales are singular, and in the end idiological. Simon Finch continually proves this. I am happy with My Olympia Naked Lunch, but I could not sell it for any price near a market value because I am not in that market. One of the most powerful concepts in Soros' theory is that there IS NO EQUilibrium, instead there is dynamic disequilibrium., every Purchase of a (rare,unique) book is a singular event, Burroughs would like this understanding of time and communication, Each event , linguistic or economical, is not reproducible but rather a ghost of itself.. already, not unlike a collage effect, there is a radical alterity of communication in both books and capital. James Jed,
A great blog, well thought out and well researched.
George Soros, has this idea about markets he calls Reflexivity, in this theory he asserts that market ‘values’ are always wrong. I agree with him on this, as a Antiquarian book dealer, I price and sell books for what they are worth – to only the single institution or person who buys them. That said; markets are consensual while sales are singular, and in the end idiological. Simon Finch continually proves this. I am happy with My Olympia Naked Lunch, but I could not sell it for any price near a market value because I am not in that market. One of the most powerful concepts in Soros’ theory is that there IS NO EQUilibrium, instead there is dynamic disequilibrium., every Purchase of a (rare,unique) book is a singular event, Burroughs would like this understanding of time and communication, Each event , linguistic or economical, is not reproducible but rather a ghost of itself.. already, not unlike a collage effect, there is a radical alterity of communication in both books and capital.
James

]]> By: davee_mac http://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/simon-finch-and-a-high-priced-naked-lunch/comment-page-1/#comment-34111 davee_mac Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:13:35 +0000 http://realitystudio.org/simon-finch-and-a-high-priced-naked-lunch/#comment-34111 all i can say is "wow" - right now all i want is one good dog-standard readable copy of every WSB book; it's frustrating enuff when an Amazon seller sends me a copy that's a different edition to the one specified ... so the high-end collecting game fair blows my mind (and frazzles my nerves!) all i can say is “wow” –

right now all i want is one good dog-standard readable copy of every WSB book; it’s frustrating enuff when an Amazon seller sends me a copy that’s a different edition to the one specified … so the high-end collecting game fair blows my mind (and frazzles my nerves!)

]]> By: Jim http://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/simon-finch-and-a-high-priced-naked-lunch/comment-page-1/#comment-11887 Jim Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:02:57 +0000 http://realitystudio.org/simon-finch-and-a-high-priced-naked-lunch/#comment-11887 Graham: price may be too high or not, but a signature means dear Bill's DNA is right there in contact with you. The communication line is not just through the word hoard. Graham: price may be too high or not, but a signature means dear Bill’s DNA is right there in contact with you. The communication line is not just through the word hoard.

]]> By: Graham Rae http://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/simon-finch-and-a-high-priced-naked-lunch/comment-page-1/#comment-9923 Graham Rae Mon, 09 Jul 2007 07:08:02 +0000 http://realitystudio.org/simon-finch-and-a-high-priced-naked-lunch/#comment-9923 Interesting article on Burroughs collecting, Jed. Trying to lower the price by questioning it? I doubt it'll work! Only kidding. Personally, I would only ever want an Olympia Press version of Naked Lunch; signed would be cool but not important. Those things go on Ebay (often without a dust jacket) here and there when I have no money. But ultimately...signatures are hardly important on a work. You still get the same words in a shitty paperback edition of Naked Lunch as you get in the $31,000+ version; you are merely paying for prestige and literary baggage and boasting rights with the latter. Still be cool to have that expensive Naked Lunch though. G. Interesting article on Burroughs collecting, Jed. Trying to lower the price by questioning it? I doubt it’ll work!

Only kidding. Personally, I would only ever want an Olympia Press version of Naked Lunch; signed would be cool but not important. Those things go on Ebay (often without a dust jacket) here and there when I have no money. But ultimately…signatures are hardly important on a work. You still get the same words in a shitty paperback edition of Naked Lunch as you get in the $31,000+ version; you are merely paying for prestige and literary baggage and boasting rights with the latter.

Still be cool to have that expensive Naked Lunch though.

G.

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