Burroughs William Lee (29 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Clean, UNMARKED FNE PB. Binding SOLID, Spine Uncreased. Appears unread. NO remainder mark. | SHIPS AIRMAIL INTERNATIONALLY.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good -. Magazine-sized stapled softcover, undated (but c1941), 80 pages, extensively illustrated throughout by sketches and full colour photographs; shelf wear, soiling, creasing and bumping to exterior, but gently used, tight in binding, interior very clean and unmarked except for scattered light finger soiling. See also our listing for Josephine Addison's Treasury of Flower Lore, with watercolour paintings by Cherry Hillhouse.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. by Barry Gifford and Lawrence Lee. New York: St. Martin's Press, (1978). First edition, first printing. Gifford and Lee traveled to Kerouac's friends and associates to collect personal remembrances and opinions. Some of the oral biographers in this collection include William Burroughs, Gore Vidal, Allen Ginsberg, and many more. Fine and tight in crisp green-beige linen over green-beige boards with gilt embossed titles to the spine, brown-and-white headband and tail-band; in a fine dust jacket; original printed $10.95 price still intact to the front inner flap. Octavo; 339 pages; index.…

Condition: New. pp. 212.

Pictorial Wraps. Condition: Good. First Edition. Flower Arranging: A Fascinating Hobby - Volume 2 (of 3). Classic 1940s home decor book on flower arranging. Author Laura Lee Burroughs is the mother of Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs, who used his mother's maiden name when his first book Junkie was published under William Lee. Illustrated with numerous full-page colour photographs throughout. Introduction by Richardson Wright (Editor-in-Chief, House & Garden). Produced by Coca-Cola, with bottles of Coke appearing in several photographs along with flowers in various social scenarios. There were a total of three of these booklets produced by Coca-Cola in the successive years 1940, '41 & '42. Thin booklet. Staplebound pictorial wraps. Printed in the USA. A good copy only. Handling wear, large closed tear along top half of front cover at spine, faint staining to cover & early pages, otherwise a clean solid softcover copy. 80pp. Fascinating & somewhat frightening look at 1940s home decor, mind-boggling when you consider the offspring. Speculation runs rampant regarding the possible influence on the future-creator of Naked Lunch. The third volume contains a colour photograph of Laura Lee Burroughs in which she resembles her son. For the Beat Generation completist! SB-3.…

soft cover. Condition: fine. first edition. Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 8vo, 100pp, printed wrappers. Second issue of this scarce underground magazine edited by Richard Meyers. Unmarked copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Very good copy of Schizo-Culture 1 of Semiotext(e) non-profit journal days. Binding square and tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Some aging to covers. Tears to spine cover, though binding is intact and good shape. 221 Pages, with additional ad pages in back. Includes 'The Eye of Power' by Foucault.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1st Edition. Unusual double book; first publication of William Burroughs' Junkie printed under pseudonym of William Lee. This copy is NEAR FINE; the text is clear, bright, and unmarked except for previous owner's name top fep; binding is in place but pages and edges have browned. The covers are also near fine: absolutely intact , including excellent color and design, but some wear bottom spine; also slight wear top edge of Narcotic Agent; some rubbing on both covers. We have a five star rating because of our fulfilment success and because our descriptions are accurate.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. William S. Burroughs (as William Lee). Junkie. Ace Double D-15. 1953. First Edition, First Printing. An exceptionally well-preserved copy of one of the landmark books of the Beat Generation and William S. Burroughs' first published book. Published under the pseudonym William Lee, Junkie was issued in the classic Ace Double tête-bêche format, bound back-to-back with Maurice Helbrant's Narcotic Agent. Intended as an inexpensive paperback, relatively few copies survived in collectible condition, making bright, unrestored examples increasingly difficult to locate. Condition VG+ Bright, unfaded front and rear covers. • Original 35¢ cover price present. • No reading creases to spine. • Binding tight and square. • Interior clean with the expected age toning to the inexpensive pulp paper. • Minor rubbing at spine ends and edges. • Small abrasion/mark near the upper front cover banner (see photographs). • No restoration. An unusually attractive copy of a notoriously fragile paperback original. One of the cornerstone books of Beat literature and among the most sought-after Ace Double first editions.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Burroughs, William S. (as William Lee) / Maurice Helbrant. Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict / Narcotic Agent. Ace Double Books D-15. New York: Ace Books, 1953. First Edition / First Printing thus. Rare and highly collectible Ace Double paperback featuring the first appearance of William S. Burroughs' landmark debut novel Junkie, published under the pseudonym "William Lee," bound tête-bêche with Maurice Helbrant's Narcotic Agent. One of the iconic early Beat Generation paperbacks and among the most sought-after Ace Doubles. Original pictorial wrappers with classic mid-century pulp cover art. Moderate wear, rubbing, creasing, and edge chipping to covers and spine; spine shows wear and small losses at ends. Interior toned as usual with age but generally clean and complete. A solid, authentic collector copy of an important Burroughs first edition in its original 1953 Ace format. Condition: Good. Original wrappers worn, rubbed, creased, and edge-chipped, with notable spine wear/splitting and small losses at spine ends. Covers remain bright and presentable. Pages age-toned as expected for 1953 pulp paper, but text appears complete and clean. Binding fragile but holding. A worn but solid collectible copy.…

broché, couverture illutrée. Condition: Très bon. EDITION ORIGINALE en partie autobiographique du premier livre de l'auteur, publié sous pseudonyme dans cette collection populaire proposant dans un même volume deux textes imprimés tête-bêche. Exemplaire signé par Burroughs sur le titre « William Lee Burroughs». >>>>>>>>>>>>>Après des études à Harvard dont il sort diplômé en 1944, Burroughs devient détective et travaille avec la pègre de New York. Il vit dans un appartement partagé avec Jack Kerouac et Joan Vollmer, une jeune femme brillante, passionnée de littérature et de philosophie qu'il épousera en 1946 et avec qui il aura un fils l'année suivante. C'est à cette période que le groupe, rejoint par Neal Cassady - le futur héros de SUR LA ROUTE - fréquente Herbert Huncke, petit délinquant et prostitué occasionnel avec qui Burroughs commence à consommer de l'héroïne puis de la morphine. Le 6 septembre 1951, en voyage à Mexico, Burroughs, ivre, tue sa femme d'une balle en pleine tête. Inculpé pour homicide involontaire, iI est arrêté et passe un court séjour en prison avant d'être relâché. Burroughs entame alors des années d'errance en Europe et en Amérique du sud, et c'est en rentrant du Mexique, entre deux défonces, qu'il écrit JUNKIE, dont le personnage d'Herman empreinte les traits d'Herbert Huncke. Après de nombreux refus, Allan Ginsberg par l'intermédiaire de Carl Solomon qu'il avait rencontré lors d'un séjour à l'hôpital psychiatrique impose le livre à son oncle, A.A. Wyn, propriétaire d'Ace Books. Cet éditeur qui publiait des livres de poche bon marché, romans policiers ou d'aventure, sort JUNKIE en 1953 sous le pseudonyme de William Lee, le nom de jeune fille de la mère de l'auteur. Malgré cette diffusion populaire, loin des cénacles littéraires négligeant les romans de genre, le livre qui décrit les paradis artificiels trash des bas-fonds de Greenwich Village connut un fort tirage, et ne tarda pas à devenir culte. Signé par l'auteur.…

First Edition. 16mo, softcover pictorial wrappers, 149, [2p adverts], 169pp. First edition. Wrappers show creasing to corners and chipping and general fading to spine edge of Junkie side, lighter wear to Narcotic Agent side. Ownership signature to reverse of Junkie side and ownership insertion of the true authorship in pen to title page, misspelled William Borroughs [sic]. Pages heavily age toned, some light wear to text block, binding taut and firm though brittle. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. The first appearance of William Burroughs' first novel in print, here gathered in a 'Two in One' mass market paperback published as Ace Double Book D-15 together with an abridged edition of Narcotic Agent by Maurice Helbrant. Burroughs is credited pseudonymously under the name of his protagonist and double William Lee, writing a hallucinogenic semi-autobiographical account of narcotic dependence; a pioneering early work in the Beat generation. The latter title, Narcotic Agent, is advertised as 'more thrilling than any fiction story' and tells the firsthand account of a top ranking narcotics agent for the United States Treasury Department (in the purview of the Treasury then, as the DEA would not be established until 1973). Original pulp illustrated covers by an uncredited artist. An exceptionally scarce true first edition. A very good copy in shrink wraps.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. An Ace Double, D-15. The second pagination sequence is Narcotic Agent by Maurice Helbrant, bound with Junkie. Pages tanned. Junkie has a slight crease to the top corner, and a spot of rubbing near the spine. Narcotic Agent has rubbing to the top of the spine. A well preserved copy. Maynard & Miles A1a. The Beat legend's first novel, an account of a young man's experience with heroin and the criminal underworld around 42nd Street in New York City.; Mass Market PB; 149, 169 pages.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. First edition. (D15) A paperback original. Near fine in lurid pictorial printed wrappers. (Paper lightly age toned. Trace of mild shelf-wear to cover on "Narcotic Agent." Trivial creasing at spine. ) Appealing copy.; 4 1/4" x 6 1/2".…

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good+ in Wraps. dj. First Edition Thus. First Edition Thus. Original Wraps. The cover is by Allen Ginsberg, and the work (a pamphlet of 12 staplebound pages in 3 paper colors) was produced on a mimeograph in an edition of 500 copies, though apparently a significant number were destroyed by the mimeo. Originally intended for inclusion in The Yage Letters, it was considered so obscene it was cut by the English printers. An earlier version appeared in the journal Floating Bear (1961) before Ed Sanders printed this separate edition. [Maynard & Miles, A9] A handsome copy. Minor shelf/edge wear, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Printed pink wraps, and pink, blue, and white papper texkblock. Limited edition of 500 copies.…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Paperback original. Light edgewear, creases to the upper front corner, and light reading crease on the spine exactly lining up with the black and red title boarders, very good or better. An attractive copy of Burroughs' fragile and uncommon first book, bound dos-a-dos with *Narcotic Agent* by Maurice Helbrant as issued. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. William S. Burroughs first book. A paperback original. Signed by Burroughs and additionally signed by Herbert Huncke who is the main character in the book. Portrayed as Herman . Printed back to back with Maurice Helbrant s Narcotic Agent. Both signatures were obtained by me at an event at B. Dalton booksellers in Greenwich Village, NYC. In 1987 for a Burroughs signing. Herbert stood by Burroughs side and he was very excited. In fact at one point he held the book up and announced to the crowd I am the main character in the book . A unique copy. Very good with some creasing. Comes with a clamshell folding box. See photos. Signed by Author(s).…

Condition: Very good. (ed.) Pierre Joris and William Prescott, Sixpack 1-9 (complete set in seven volumes), 1972-1975. Issue no. 1, 1972. 58pp. A4 mimeo, side-stapled in card covers. Includes texts by Charles Bukowski, Paul Celan (translated by Pierre Joris), Allen Ginsberg, Jeff Nuttall et al. Condition: covers somewhat worn, internally fine. Issue no. 2, 1972. 54pp. A4 offset, side-stapled in card covers. Texts by William S. Burroughs, Paul Blackburn, Bill Butler, Allen Fisher, Jack Kerouac, Eric Mottram, Jeff Nuttall et al. Collages by Claude Pelieu. Condition: covers slightly soiled, staples rusty, internally near fine. Issue no. 3/4, 1973. 98pp A4 offset, perfect-bound in wraps. Texts by Peter Finch, Allen Fisher, John Giorno, Bill Griffiths, Robert Kelly, Eric Mottram, Jeff Nuttall et al. Condition: wraps rubbed and some glue-staining to edges of first and last pages. Issue no. 5, 1973. Edited by Bill Sherman. 54pp. offset, centre-stapled. Texts by Asa Benveniste, Eric Mottram, John Weiners et al. Issue no. 6, 1973/74. 134pp. offset, perfect-bound in wraps. Texts by Ted Berrigan, William S. Burroughs, Bob Cobbing, Allen Fisher, Allen Ginsberg, John Giorno, Robert Kelly, Jackson Mac Low, Eric Mottram, Alice Notley, Tom Pickard, Jerome Rothenberg et al. Condition: page 16 loose, otherwise very good. Issue no. 7/8, 1974. 260pp. offset, perfect-bound in wraps. Special issue on Paul Blackburn, featuring his poems and translations as well as other contributions from David Antin, Allen Fisher, Allen Ginsberg, Lee Harwood, Robert Kelly, Jackson Mac Low, Eric Mottram, Jerome Rothenberg, Carolee Schneemann, Armand Schwerner, Anne Waldman, Jonathan Williams et al. Condition: pages 105-128 loose, otherwise very good. Issue no. 9, 1975. 192pp. offset, perfect-bound in wraps. Texts by David Antin, Antonin Artaud, Edward Dorn, Allen Fisher, Robert Kelly, Jackson Mac Low, Charles Olsen, Armand Schwerner, Jonathan Williams et al. Condition: Very good. Condition: some aging and foxing to the paper of the covers. Overall: Very good. …

New York: Ace Books.1953. [issued and bound with:]HELBRANT, Maurice. Narcotic Agent. New York: Ace Books. 1953. Publisher's pictorial card wrappers; Junkie: pp. [ii], 149, [2 (publishers' advertisements)], Narcotic Agent: pp. [ii], 169; rubbing to spine and creasing to both covers; uniformly toned, first 2 ff. of Junkie coming loose; old ink stamp of Burkes Used Book Store, Santa Ana, to first page of Junkie; otherwise a very good copy. First edition, first impression of William Burroughs's first published novel, a semi-autobiographical exploration of heroin addiction, withdrawal, and relapse in 1950s New York.Burroughs, who had studied anthropology as a postgraduate from Harvard, developed an addiction to morphine following his move to New York and began selling heroin in Greenwich Village; arrested for forging a narcotics prescription in 1946, Burroughs subsequently fled to Mexico City in 1949 to avoid United States drug charges. In 1951 - by which time Junkie had largely been completed - he fatally shot his common-law wife, Joan Vollmer, during a drunken William Tell-style game in which he attempted to shoot a whiskey glass off her head. Junkie was initially considered unpublishable; after numerous rejections, Burroughs (here writing under the pseudonym William Lee) turned to Ace Books through Carl Solomon (to whom Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl' is dedicated), a printer of cheap pulp fiction, Solomon's uncle being the owner of the publishing firm; Ace had rejected Kerouac's On the Road, and only published Junkie on the condition that its language would be censored. It is printed dos-a-dos with the largely forgotten Narcotic Agent by Maurice Helbrant, an autobiographical account of the author's work as an undercover agent for the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. Considering the disposable intention of the pulp novel, our copy is in uncommonly good condition. …

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York: Ace Books, 1953. First Edition. 12mo; two volumes bound tête-bêche in publisher's pictorial card wrappers; 149,[2],169pp. Moderate wear to wrapper margins, light dust soil, textblock significantly browned; overall Very Good and sound. Issued as Ace Double Books D-15. First edition of William S. Burrough's first book, a fictionalized account of his own experiences with morphine and heroin addiction. "Not since De Quincey's The Confessions of an English Opium Eater has the finger of light shone so glaringly on the wasteland of the drug addict" (publisher's note). Bound with an abridged edition of Maurice Helbrant's 1941 memoir Narcotic Agent. Maynard & Miles A1a.…

First Edition. First edition. His first book. Wrappers. Fine condition and a rare book this sharp. Cloth box. The prodrug wanderings of writing's man on a wire, and heroin's model literary champion, more erudite and entertaining than most autobiographies. A pivotal literary achievement that functions simultaneously as raw autobiographical testimony and as the stylistic foundation for Burroughs' later experimental works in the Nova Trilogy. Written in a clinical, detached narrative voicewhat Burroughs termed his "factual" styledocuments the author's descent into heroin addiction with an ethnographer's precision, cataloging the rituals, argot, and social dynamics of post-war drug subcultures in New York, New Orleans, and Mexico City. This quasi-documentary approach, with its unflinching portrayal of criminalized existence and bodily deterioration, established the thematic preoccupations that would later evolve into the fragmented, non-linear techniques of "Naked Lunch" and subsequent works. As autobiography, "Junkie" occupies a complex position between confession and performance, with Burroughs simultaneously revealing intimate details of his addiction while constructing a literary persona that would become central to his mythologized status within Beat literature and twentieth-century counterculture.…

First Edition. First Printing, a paperback original novel, bound together with Maurice Helbrant's Narcotic Agent. Octavo (16.25cm); original pictorial card wrappers; dark yellow edge-staining; [4],5-149,[2]; 169pp. Subtle tanning to text edges, light wear to extremities, with a few faint stress creases to wrappers; a bright, Near Fine copy. Burroughs's first book, a semi-autobiographical field report from the seedy underbelly of post-war America, chronicling his experiences using and selling drugs and vacillating between addiction and recovery. A cornerstone work of the Beat Generation and a high-point of drug literature, always plentiful in the marketplace, but less so in anything approaching collector's condition. Maynard & Miles A1a.…

A first edition, first printing. SIGNED by the Author. In publisher's original pictorial card wrappers. A superb near fine copy, the binding is square and firm, minutely rubbed to the extremities. No creasing to the spine whatsoever. The spine is unusually bright and clear. Browning to the paper, as is usual given the low quality of the paper stock used. A really sharp copy of the semi-autobiographical debut novel. SIGNED on the title page, 'William Burroughs/ for William Lee'. Most copies found are inscribed and addressed to a dedicatee - the nature of the signing is unique. For the first two editions of 'Junkie', Burroughs employed the pseudonym of William Lee. During the period in which the novel was written, the author corresponded regularly with Allen Ginsberg, and it was Ginsberg, struck by the richness of the letters, who pressed him to write the novel. Ginsberg, acting as Burroughs' agent, was instrumental in the publication of 'Junkie', persuading A. A. Wyn, owner of Ace Books to accept the book for publication. Receiving the good news, Burroughs wrote to Ginsberg, 'You really are a sweetheart. I could kiss you on both cheeks. We should get used to calling each other sweetheart. I understand it is the standard for of address between agent and author, but this time I mean it.' Published in pulp form and quality, back to back with Maurice Helbrandt's 'Narcotic Agent', 'Junkie', like the other Ace Books, was mass produced and designed to be disposable - this example is an unusually well preserved example and the first we have seen signed in this way.…

First Edition. First Printing, a paperback original novel, bound together with Maurice Helbrant's Narcotic Agent. Octavo (16.25cm); original pictorial card wrappers; [4],5-149,[2]; 169pp. Inscribed by Burroughs on the title page to Ted Berrigan: "For Ted Berrigan / Editor of 'C' / All the best / William S. Burroughs / Dec.11, St. Daniel / New York." Modest wear and rubbing to extremities, a few faint creases to wrappers, tanning to text edges, with some dust-soil to upper edge of textblock; preliminary leaf on the Junkie side detached but present, though lacking on the Narcotic Agent side; just Very Good. Burroughs's first book, a semi-autobiographical field report from the seedy underbelly of post-war America, chronicling his experiences using and selling drugs and vacillating between addiction and recovery. While undated, this copy was inscribed in 1964, the year Burroughs made contact with Ted Berrigan, "the bearded, overweight father figure of the Lower East Side poetry scene. He was the editor of C: A Journal of Poetry, and had published one of Bill's experimental texts, "Giver of Winds Is My Name," in the summer of 1964, the first of his texts to use Egyptian glyphs. Berrigan was enthusiastic about his work so Bill gave him another text, "Fits of Nerves with a Fix," which he published that February. Berrigan arranged to publish Bill's own thirty-two-page version of Time magazine, a three-column collaged text using the cover and title page of the November 30, 1962 issue of Time, which had contained the libelous review of Naked Lunch called "King of the YADS" (Young American Disaffiliates), in which it claimed that Burroughs had cut off a finger joint to avoid the draft" (Miles, Barry. Call Me Burroughs: A Life, pp.434-435). Berrigan drew from Burroughs's cut-up technique while writing The Sonnets (1964), his best-known work, and in 1965, he and Burroughs (along with Jayne Mansfield, Edie Sedgwick, Gerard Malanga, and Andy Warhol, et al.) were featured in Ed Sanders's 24-minute film Poem Posters. A cornerstone work of the Beat Generation and a significant copy, acting as a bridge between the Beats and the New York School. Maynard & Miles A1a. …

New York, Ace Books Inc, 1953, 163x106mm, (1-4) 5-149 (150-151), inversé 169-5 (4-1) Narcotic Agent, Maurice Helbrant, broché sous couvertures illustrées.Papier jauni, mouillures claires marginales aux premières pages.Edition originale du premier livre de Burroughs dont il n'a pas été tiré de grands papiers.Maynard and Miles A1. Sohm 4, p.19., Beat Generation, Centre Pompidou 2016, p.170, reproduit. (103137).…

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 212.

Condition: New. Print on Demand.

Condition: New. PRINT ON DEMAND pp. 212.

Condition: New. PRINT ON DEMAND.