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Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting

For more on Cleft, see Jed Birmingham’s essay on Burroughs and Scotland.

Cleft 1, 1963

Cleft 1
1963

Contains William S. Burroughs’ “Martin’s Folly”

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Cleft 2, 1964

Cleft 2
1964

Contains William S. Burroughs’ “Distant Hand Lifted”

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Scanned by Jed Birmingham and published by RealityStudio on 12 September 2017.
Texts by Burroughs William Burroughs

2 thoughts on “Cleft”

  1. Jeff Ball says:
    September 16, 2017 at 7:49 am

    Cleft has that extra cachet of having images of both issues appearing in Maynard & Miles. I see number two is signed by Burroughs. Fantastic!

  2. Bill McArthur says:
    August 30, 2026 at 5:49 am

    Funny to find my old magazine living on as an internet ghost after nearly 70 years…who’d have thought eh?

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