Lee Helbrant (7 results)

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: 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.…

Paperback. D-15 very good - fine, reading crease 1953, PBO/. William Burrough's first book (William Lee). Cover by Al Rossi. , paperback.

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 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.…

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. …