Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting Several months ago I received an email from an editor at Black Dog Publishing which operates out of London. Black Dog prints books on a variety of topics such as photography, architecture, film and design. They did a book on Independent record shops…
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Apomorphine and Naked Lunch
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting I found this vaccine at the end of the junk line. I lived in one room in the Native Quarter of Tangier. I had not taken a bath in a year nor changed my clothes except to stick a needle every hour in…
Speed, Apomorphine, Mimeo, and the Cut-Up
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting There are times in your reading life when you dabble in a book, dip into it periodically, put it down, and come back to it. Your experience with the book is leisurely, casual. You are chipping. The book does not have a strong…
Brian Cassidy on Early Photos and Collages by Burroughs
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting To be blunt, the New York Antiquarian Book Fair is the shit. Prior to the fair, I went to the Morgan Library to see their Gutenberg Bible and soak in the atmosphere of J.P. Morgan’s study. The display at the New York show…
C Press Archive
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting For more information about C Press, see Jed Birmingham’s articles on Time, Ted Berrigan, and Don’t Ever Get Famous. Also see the C Press Index. Andy Warhol provided the cover for issue four of C: A Journal of the Arts. Edwin Denby and…
Kulchur
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting Kulchur 1 (View complete issue)(Spring 1960)Editor Marc Schleifer; Managing Editors: John Fles, Charles Olson, Leroi Jones, Martin Williams, Donald Phelps. Cover by Stephen Solosy. Selected Contributors: William Burroughs (“The Conspiracy”); Allen Ginsberg (“Paterson”; Diane Di Prima (“Whims”); Charles Olson (“Pieces of Time”; Basil…
Time
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting Recently, I received an email asking me about a copy of Time, a limited edition collage piece published by C Press. According to its copyright page, Time was published in 1965 in 1000 copies. 886 copies comprised the trade edition. These copies were…
David Meltzer Archive: A Partial Index
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting 1. Nov 2, 1963 TLS from Anthony Linick to Dave Meltzer — Letter SIGNED by Linick. Linick along with Donald Factor was editor of NOMAD magazine which ran for 10 issues from the Winter 1959 to Autumn 1962. Nomad was published in London…
David Meltzer and Nomad
Reports from the Bibliographic BunkerJed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting For more on Jed’s mini-archive of Meltzer letters, see David Meltzer Archive: A Partial Index. A small archive of letters to Maurice Girodias of Olympia Press from the likes of Henry Miller and William Burroughs popped up on Abebooks. Many of the letters are…
Fuck You Press Archive
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting It was a good day when I finally got my hands on Fuck You Vol. 5/No. 7. Quite possibly the coolest, hippest magazine of the mimeo revolution (Fuck You epitomized the revolution as demonstrated by naming the Steve Clay book “A Secret Location…