Process by Gysin, First Edition (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1985 354pp Quartet. VG+ in VG+ dustwrapper. The Process has the dazzling impact of a drug-inspired dream. Ulys O. Hanson, an African-American professor of the History of Slavery, who is in North Africa on a mysterious foundation grant, sets off across the Sahara on a series of wild adventures. He first meets Hamid, a mad Moroccan who turns him on, takes him over and teaches him to pass as a Moor. Mya, the richest woman in creation, and her seventh husband, the hereditary Bishop of the Farout Islands, also cross his path with their plans to steal the Sahara and make the stoned professor the puppet Emperor of Africa.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Please see any and all photos connected with this listing. Cover and spine are good with only mild shelf/rub wear. No dog-eared corners. Solid Binding. All pages intact and legible. Clean. No store stamps. --- --- . . .has the dazzling impact of a drug-inspired dream and, since its publication more than thirty years ago, has established itself as a classic of twentieth century modernism. . . . .Ulys O. Hanson, an African-American professor of the History of Slavery, who is in North Africa on a mysterious foundation grant, sets off across the Sahara on a series of wild adventures. He first meets Hamid, a mad Moroccan who turns him on, takes him over and teaches him to pass as a Moor. Mya, the richest woman in creation, and her seventh husband, the hereditary Bishop of the Farout Islands, also cross his path with their plans to steal the Sahara and make the stoned professor the puppet Emperor of Africa. . .See photos for additional content. . .

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Condition Notes: A hint of edgewear to the dust wrapper. Leans vaguely. A little age-toning to the edges of the text block; First edition (first printing). Hardback. Dust wrapper over black boards with gilt titles to the spine; Measures 8¾" x 5½" (1 kg); pp 353; First edition thus, first published by Doubleday, 1969 and Cape, 1970. || The book is on the shelf, ready to be appropriately packed, and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the book shop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #201575 ||.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Jonathan Cape 1970 first edition. Pages clean and bright, binding firm, minor shelf wear to dust jacket, including small tear near spine. We are closed 14th-23rd July items ordered after 9:00am on the 13th July will be shipped on 25th July, shipping times have been updated. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Jacket artwork by Ham. (illustrator). First edition. First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, price-clipped. Gysin was a painter and composer who collaborated with Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs on many occasions. The Process was his first full-length novel. A very good copy in price-clipped jacket. Book.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 353 pages. Gysin's first book, a novel about a hallucinogenic trip in Africa. A clean near fine copy in two tone cloth boards with a very tiny spot to the fore edge and in a very good plus dust jacket with some minor edge wear and some tiny chips to the spine ends. Still, a very pleasing copy of this important debut.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Book condition is Very Good; with a Very Good dust jacket. Some toning, rubbing, chipping and edge wear to jacket. Previous owner stamp on front end page. Interior is evenly toned throughout. Text is clean and unmarked. 8vo. 8 1/2"h x 5 3/4"w. First Edition is stated. Uncommon First Printing of this highly influential text from Burroughs's co-creator of their cut/up method.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo., black publisher s boards lettered in gilt to spine with publisher s device to foot; top-stained grey; together in the vibrant pictorial dustwrapper featuring designs by the Moroccan artist Hamri; The BOOK essentially a near Fine copy, just one tiny bump to the corner of lower board; the near Fine WRAPPER lightly rubbed along folds, with some minor darkening to the backstrip; some dark marks affecting verso only. The wrapper is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. First UK edition, first printing. The British-Canadian painter, writer, sound poet, performance artist and inventor of experimental devices Brion Gysin is perhaps best known today for his collaboration on the cut up technique with William S. Burroughs. He was also the inventor (along with the computer programmer Ian Sommerville) of theDreamachine, a flickering art device which was deliberately designed to be viewed with the eyes closed. The Process was his first full-length novel, and follows the story of a pot-smoking professor named Ulys O. Hanson, who sets out on a pilgrimage across the Sahara Desert. On his travels, he is taught how to pass as a Moor, and falls in with the richest woman in creation and her seventh husband. Over the course of the novel, the reader becomes aware that what the protagonist is experiencing is a hallucination. Created using the same cut-up technique which he would later become known for, Gysin s work was celebrated for its poetic descriptions of Northern Africa, as well as the history of Sufi culture, Gysin s encounters with the founder of Scientology L. Ron Hubbard, and the Master Musicians of Jajouka, Sufi trance musicians from the mountains of Northern Morocco. Gysin had first hired the group to perform at his restaurant The 1001 Nights, which he had opened in Tangier in 1954. The author himself described the book as "a wild tale of adventure in the Sahara, on one level, and the story of a search for self, on the other. In many ways, the work was semi-autobiographical. Although set in the Sahara, the narrative is interrupted by evocations of the Canadian West in which he was born, and one of the central characters, Mya Himmer, remembers a childhood spent in Canada s open spaces. Each of the central characters in The Process is Gysin, and yet none of them is , John Geiger writes in his biography of the author. The novel is a cut-up of memory and pure invention . A very fresh copy, scarce in the wrapper. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover in unclipped dust jacket. First edition, first print. Very good condition. The paintings reproduced on the jacket are by the Moroccan artist Hamri. Jacket has some fading to the spine and a nick to jacket rear at the upper edge. Jacket spine head is creased and has a small nick. Slight folding to the upper edges of the jacket and couple of minor score lines to jacket rear. The boards are very clean with only a couple of very minor scores to the rear. Internally the text is pristine. DP. Used.

Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1969. First Edition. Publisher's printed card laid in "With the compliments of Brion Gysin." Octavo; 353pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $5.95 price present; black and brown cloth stamped in gilt; pink endpapers. Dust jacket worn along edges with general scuffing; boards show light shelfwear; binding sound and pages unmarked; a Very Good copy of the author's first novel following a professor's hallucinatory journey across the Sahara.