Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting Looking over eBay results in the last few weeks and reviewing the prices realized for the latest PBA Galleries Beat sale, I thought of two important little mags from the post-WWII era: Judson Crews’ Suck Egg Mule and Ian Hamilton Finlay’s Poor.Old.Tired.Horse. Yes…
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The David Oakey Collection of Gary Snyder
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting Whenever I see a notice for an auction of an individual’s collection, my first thoughts are not so much about the books in the collection, but about the motivation for the sale. Why is he/she selling their books? I must admit the scenarios…
William Burroughs on Cassette
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting For the past several months, pieces from the estate of Allen DeLoach have been auctioned on eBay. These items, including photographs, small press chapbooks, little magazines, and manuscripts, chronicle the counterculture literary scene of the 1960s and 1970s. In my opinion, they rank…