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Published by Two Cities Editions, Paris, 1960
Seller: PSBooks, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Poor. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. In original paper wraps which show damage--mainly the lower corner is somewhat missing. Fading around outer edges of cover. Interior intact with no markings. Laid-in is one page of V TRE publication (Metuchen, NJ) circa 1962.
Published by Beach Books, Texts and Documents. First American edition, 1968
Seller: Badger Books, Woollahra, NSW, Australia
First Edition
Softcover/Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Poetry, prose, 'First Cut-Ups', concrete poetry, collage by Claude Pelieu, rear cover by Brion Gysin; 63pp. Pictorial wrappers. Very good. book.
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Illustrated tan wraps, small octavo. 63 pages. Claude Pelieu on page two. Fine copy. Rear wrap illustrated by Gysin. All books shipped in boxes.
Published by The English Bookshop, Paris, 1960
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
First Edition
Paperback. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Paperback. First edition. Edgeworn and sunned cover; the front of the cover has a 6-7cm slit, affecting the opening two pages. Small tear on the spine foot. The binding is visible on the rear hinge and is a little weak at certain points; pages 3-14 are starting to come loose from the binding. Text is clear throughout. CM. Used.
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).
Published by Two Cities Editions, Paris, 1960
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First 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 Co-Author. Book.
Published by Paris: Two Cities Editions, 1960, 1960
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
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 had 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, title 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.
Published by Two Cities Editions, Paris, 1960
Seller: The Poetry Bookshop : Hay-on-Wye, Hay-on-Wye, POWYS, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
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. Signed by Author(s). Book.
Published by Paris Two Cities Edition 1960, 1960
Seller: NUDEL BOOKS, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Book
Soft cover. Condition: Good. Wrappers, rather worn and read, Burrough's third book. INSCRIBED by Burroughs, Beiles, and Gysin (Corso was there but may have been Corso and refused to sign) at the publication party to Gait Froge, the owner of the English Bookshop in Paris and the angel who put up the 500 to get the book published. Essentially the DEDICATION COPY. A museum piece. Details on request.