Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting When I was briefly in graduate school in 1995, I was fascinated by the fate of the letter in the digital age. While studying abroad at King’s College in 1992, I wrote letters weekly and eagerly checked my mailbox daily. Just three years…
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Letters of William S. Burroughs, 1945-1959
New York: Viking 1993, first printing, hardbound in dust jacket. A selection from Burroughs’ early letter archive. Edited and with an Introduction written by Oliver Harris. _____ Uncorrected Galley Proof in yellow wraps. London: Picador 1993, first British edition, small first printing of only 1,000 copies, hardbound in dust jacket. _____ 1994, first British printing…
Letters to Allen Ginsberg
Geneva: Claude Givaudan/Am Here Books 1978, an edition of 100 numbered copies signed by Burroughs. Text in English only. Hardbound in a clear acetate dust jacket with facsimile signatures printed in blue. Published simultaneously with the bilingual edition listed below. _____ the trade edition limited to 400 numbered copies. Hardbound with clear acetate dust jacket…
The Yage Letters
[M&M A8] San Francisco: City Lights 1963, one of 3,000 copies in wraps. Maynard & Miles A8a. Consisting mostly of letters written to Allen Ginsberg by Burroughs on his trip to South America in 1953, but including letters by Ginsberg as well. _____ 1975, second edition in wraps, adds a new letter dated 10 July…
Interpol
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting By the late 1950s, literary magazines were much on Burroughs’ mind. He was no longer satisfied with publishing his numerous routines in letters to Allen Ginsberg. Naked Lunch began to take shape as a novel and Burroughs sought a larger audience. Mainstream publishing…