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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.
Published by Two Cities Edition, Paris, 1960
Seller: Discovery Bay Old Books ABAA, ILAB, Brentwood, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Minutes to Go by William Burroughs. Also Sinclair Beils, Gregory Corso and Brion Gysin. First edition in original printed wrappers. Publisher: Two Cities Edition, Paris, (1960) with the acknowledged co-operation of The English Bookshop. 63 pages. Early work by Burroughs. Rear cover is a calligraph in white and blue by Brion Gysin. One of 1,000 copies published on April 13, 1960. Wrapper in very good condition, but front cover faded and re-attached. Light stain to the verso of the cover and extending to the title-page. 5 ¼ x 8 ¼ inches. Over-all a tight clean copy despite the flaws. Inventory #23-045. Price: $150.
Published by Paris Two Cities Editions, with the acknowledged co-operation of The English Bookshop 1960, 1960
Seller: OJ-BOOKS ABA / PBFA, SOLIHULL, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
First Edition. Publisher's stiff light blue pictorial wrappers. The back cover is a calligraph in white and blue by Brion Gysin. Contributions by Brion Gysin, William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Sinclair Beiles. Burroughs' third book, and the first standalone publication to employ the cut-up technique as Gysin & co. envisioned it. Octavo. 21 x 13.5 cm [1-4]8, 32 leaves; pp. [1-2] 3-63 [64]. Published in an edition of 1,000 copies on 13th April 1960 and priced at 7.20 F. An uncommon and important book in Good condition with some sun fading to covers, splitting at foot of spine and occasional marks to text (four of Burroughs' poems with 'stars'!). The cut-up technique (or découpé in French) is an aleatory literary technique in which a written text is cut up and rearranged to create a new text. The concept can be traced to at least the Dadaists of the 1920s, but was popularized in the late 1950s and early 1960s by writer William S. Burroughs, and has since been used in a wide variety of contexts. Maynard and Miles A3a.
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.
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.
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. FIRST. A NEAR FINE FIRST IN AQUA WRAPS SIGNED AND INSCRIBED. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Two Cities Editions, [Paris], 1960
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
63, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First edition, one of 1000 copies. First edition, one of 1000 copies. 63, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The Cut-Up Technique. Poetry and cut-ups by William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Sinclair Beiles, and Gregory Corso. A landmark of late twentieth century literary innovation. Burroughs' third book, inscribed by him on the title page, "For Bob Wilson, William Burroughs" and also inscribed by Gregory Corso. Maynard & Miles A3a Blue wrappers with calligraphy by Gysin. Spine faded near fine.
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.