Beiles Sinclair Burroughs William Corso (6 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Near VG. 8vo, xvi+192pp, printed wrappers. Jam-packed quadruple issue of Michael Horovitz's key avant-garde literary magazine, includes work by William Burroughs (Schottlaender C388 / Shoaf III-227) and other major Beat Generation figures, plus Bob Cobbing and other British visualists, much else. Unmarked copy, rubbing to covers and a bit of bumping to textblock. Not Signed.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Paperback Octavo. wraps, 63 pp, cover lightly soiled and lightly frayed at the edges, especially at the ends of spine, top edge lightly soiled Standard shipping (no tracking or insurance) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Two Cities Editions: Paris, 1960. First edition. Thin 8vo; 32 leaves. Early work by Burroughs. Contributions by Brion Gysin, Gregory Corso, and Sinclair Beiles. Signed by Burroughs on the title page. Perfect bound in stiff light blue pictorial wraps. Rear cover is a calligraph in white and blue by Brion Gysin. One of 1,000 copies published on April 13, 1960. There was also a printing of 10 copies on fine paper, numbered 1-10. Spine and edges of the front panel are toned. Very good. Rare signed in any condition. Ref: Maynard and Miles. Signed by Author(s).

Card Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 63pp + colophon. Gysin passes the scissors for Burroughs' first cut-ups in this seminal publication. Signed by both Brion Gysin & William Burroughs on title page. Front cover & spine just a touch rubbed & lightly faded. Some pages still unopened. Extremely uncommon to be signed by the godfathers of cut-up! Signed by Author(s). Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. SIGNED by co-author Brion Gysin on title page (exceptionally rare thus). A virtual snapshot of Gysin's experiments with the cutup method of composition, which he exposed Burroughs, Corso, and Beiles to at the Beat Hotel. Original blue wraps (spine slightly faded, slight traces of wear). A truly exceptional copy of this fugitive Beat icon. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Signed by Author(s). Book.

First edition, first printing, signed on the title page by Brion Gysin, next to his printed name. This was the first book of cut-up poetry published by Burroughs, Gysin, and their collaborators: "the original manifesto and manual of the method" (Harris), and marks the first of Burroughs and Gysin's many collaborations. Burroughs and Gysin met at the Beat Hotel in Paris, in October 1959, where Burroughs was first introduced to Gysin's cut-up paintings, which influenced much of his later writing. By the time they had met, Gysin had already contributed the notorious marijuana fudge recipe to Alice B. Toklas's Cookbook, and the pair's time in Paris together was dominated by "mirror-gazing, scrying, trance and telepathy, all fuelled by a wide variety of mind-altering drugs" (Stevens, p. 50). It was from this febrile atmosphere that the present book emerged. Burroughs contributes eleven pieces to the volume, and Gysin five, including "First Cut-Ups" and the titular poem, "Minutes to Go". The cut-up technique later influenced some of the 20th century's most important artists, from the Beat Generation to David Bowie. Maynard & Miles A3a. Oliver Harris, "'Burroughs Is a Poet Too, Really': The Poetics of Minutes to Go", RealityStudio, available online; Matthew Levi Stevens, The Magical Universe of William S. Burroughs, 1999. Octavo. Original blue and white wrappers, rear wrapper designed by Gysin, lettering to spine in blue, to front white. Spine a little sunned, extending to front wrapper, extremities a touch rubbed, lower rear wrapper a little soiled with short closed tear, pale foxing to fore edge, a few marks to endpapers else internally fresh. A very good copy indeed.