Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting # 10 – The Digit Junkie (1957). An Installment in Jed Birmingham’s series of the The Top 23 Most Interesting Burroughs Collectibles. It was the spring of 2003. My first marriage had just fallen apart. I was living in a one bedroom apartment…
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Junkie
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict by William Lee. New York: Ace Books, 1953. Published tête-bêche with Narcotic Agent by Maurice Helbrant. Ownership signature of Bill Garver in pencil on ffep with annotations through in light pencil. The book contains multiple…
Ace Junkie Binding
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting Call me old school but I am a Maynard & Miles Man. I love to get lost in the bibliographic details, particularly in Section A. The publication dates, the measurements, the information on print runs, the points of issue. This gold standard bibliography…
Review of Dope Menace by Stephen J. Gertz
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting For those of you interested in exploring the history of men’s magazines further, let me recommend (if I have not already), Dian Hanson’s six volume set The History of Men’s Magazines published by Taschen. On the related topic of Men’s Adventure Magazines, check…
Cutting up the Archive: William Burroughs and the Composite Text
by Oliver Harris This is an edited version of a paper delivered to the 4th Annual Symposium on Textual Studies at the Centre for Textual Scholarship, De Montfort University, Leicester, 25 May 2007. I’d like to start by saying how delighted I am to have been invited here today by Peter Shillingsburg and how honoured…
Junky, Queer, Naked Lunch
New York: Quality Paperbook Book Club 1995, three novels in one volume available only to book club members, bound in pictorial wraps. This bibliography of A-List publications by William S. Burroughs derives from Eric C. Shoaf’s Collecting William S. Burroughs in Print: A Checklist and is published online courtesy of the author, who retains all…
Junky
aka Junkie [M&M A1] New York: Ace Double Books D-15, published 1953 and bound with Maurice Helbrant’s Narcotic Agent, attributed to William “Lee” as Burroughs used his mother’s maiden name so as not to discredit his family. Maynard & Miles A1a, in which they note that as many as 100,000 copies may have been printed….
Published High and Low: Men’s Magazines, the Pulps and Academic Journals
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting According to Beat legend, the shooting death of Joan Vollmer gave birth to William Burroughs, the writer. Grief and guilt forced Burroughs to the typewriter. The work of recent Beat historians, like Oliver Harris’ William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination, separates the…
James Frey and William S. Burroughs
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting James Frey, author of A Million Little Pieces, has been dropped by Riverhead Books. (See the article on CNN.) The success and scandal surrounding the memoir immediately got me thinking about William Burroughs. Obviously, I am not alone. Erica Jong wrote an article…
The Digit Junkie
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting The Burroughs collector finds himself faced with several stoppers in his quest for a complete collection. Some items while not particularly rare are prohibitively expensive such as the Ace Junkie, Olympia Press Naked Lunch or the many beautifully constructed limited editions of Burroughs’…