Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting Recently I was flipping through the latest copy of Fine Books & Collections as I am wont to do. I generally spend as much time looking at the advertisements as I do reading the articles. The piece on the Gotham Book Mart was…
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The Fuck You Press Cantos: A Census
by Joshua Kotin This essay is a preview of a larger project, still in progress, about Ezra Pound’s Cantos 110-116 published by Fuck You Press in 1967. To share information about the book or to comment on the essay, please write Joshua Kotin. I A thought experiment. You are teaching a course on the history…
Ed Sanders Book Catalogue #1
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting Ed Sanders Catalogue #1 – June/July 1964 Item Description: Ed Sanders, New York, 1964. Soft cover. Book Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Ed Sanders (illustrator). [7] leaves; 28 x 21.7 cm. Side-stapled binding. Pages un-numbered. Mimeographed on one side on typing paper stock….
Ed Sanders Interview for Fact
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting We here at RealityStudio can keep on giving thanks only to the generosity of others. In this case, it is once again that of Jeff Nisbet, who has been so kind as to provide us with access to his Fuck You/Ralph Ginzburg Archive….
#12: Roosevelt after Inauguration
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting #12 Roosevelt After Inauguration (Fuck You Press 1964). An Installment in Jed Birmingham’s series of the The Top 23 Most Interesting Burroughs Collectibles. As a Burroughs collector, I am envious of those who collect Bukowski. Back when I was working at Second Story…
Mimeo Variants: Who Gives a Fuck?
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting Aside from index made by Jake Marx in 1971, Fuck You, a magazine of the arts has not received the full bibliographic treatment. Most accounts of the magazine focus on how it started or how it ended, anecdotes regarding its publications or the…
Fuck You Press Cockatrices – Update
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting In the wake of the Fuck You Press Cockatrices article, I have been hoping for some inside poop to drop into my mailbox. No such luck so far, but I did call James Musser of Skyline Books in order to purchase Ed Sanders’…
Fuck You Press Cockatrices
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting As the shit went down on eBay involving the Digit Junkie, Brian Cassidy and I were heading back from the NY Art Book Fair at PS 1 in Long Island City on a donut tire in a driving rain. Based on my experience…
Fuck You Pentagon March Flyer
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting I have to think that a complete Fuck You Press bibliography would be a monumental task. Take this handbill from the March on the Pentagon in October 1967. It is clearly Ed Sanders’ handwriting and has the trademark Fuck You style, but the…
Summer of Love / Fuck for Peace
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting To quote a Canned Heat lyric, “I’m on the road again.” The trip up to New York City on the Chinatown bus was all wind in the hair and “Born to be Wild.” Smooth sailing with Billy and Wyatt, but the trip back…
Roosevelt After Inauguration
[M&M A9] New York: Fuck You Press 1964, by “Willy Lee”, bound in stapled wraps. Maynard & Miles A9. Small and short (only 14 gathered leaves), this routine was originally intended for inclusion in The Yage Letters but was censored by the English printers. A version appeared in Floating Bear 9 (1961) before being co-opted…
Kiss and Couch
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting Rolling Stone magazine just celebrated its 1000th cover with a tribute to / touching up of the legendary Sgt. Pepper album cover. Reportedly, the new cover cost over $1 million to produce. It is fun and interesting, but I doubt it will reach…
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…
APO-33
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting I spent some more time on Dave Moore’s page of Burroughs covers the other night. An interesting piece could be written on the cover art and external packaging of Burroughs’ work over the past five decades similar to the essays that have been…