A Never-Before-Published Cut-Up Masterpiece BATTLE INSTRUCTIONS is the most important new publication by William S. Burroughs not only since the writer’s death in 1997 but quite possibly since The Third Mind made it into print in 1978. Burroughs wrote a number of books in the final decades of his life. His estate, under the leadership…
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#20: The Exterminator
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting #20 – The Exterminator by Auerhahn Press (1960). An Installment in Jed Birmingham’s series of the The Top 23 Most Interesting Burroughs Collectibles. In 1958 on the cover of the Spring issue of Chicago Review, William Burroughs headlined a list of “Ten San…
The Exterminator
Reports from the Bibliographic Bunker Jed Birmingham on William S. Burroughs Collecting Published by Auerhahn Press in 1960, The Exterminator is one of the forgotten texts of Burroughs’ bibliography. Roughly 1000 copies were printed in the first edition, and I would gather that few of even the most dedicated Burroughs fans have ever read it….
The Exterminator
[M&M A4] San Francisco: Auerhahn Press 1960, bound in wraps and one of 1,000 copies. Maynard & Miles A4a. A collaboration with Brion Gysin, not to be confused with Burroughs’ work Exterminator! published by Viking Press in 1973. Cover design by Gysin. A short piece with but 47 pages. San Francisco: Dave Haselwood Books 1967,…