Note
Data license: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Data source: Github · About: Summary report of items in the collection
1,057 rows sorted by value descending
This data as json, CSV (advanced)
id | value ▲ |
---|---|
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb3180 | “’Interzone’ was the working title for ... Naked Lunch.”—Dustjacket. |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb3274 | “cover art collage derived from [3] paintings by William S. Burroughs” —Dustjacket. |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb3960 | “With grateful acknowledgement [sic] of the kind cooperation of Robert H. Jackson, and for his aid in the publication of this book.”—T.p. verso. |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb3371 | “Will Dennison chapters written by William Lee, Mike Ryko chapters by John Kerouac.”—p. [1]. |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb1607 | “We take you back to 1924, and there, year by year, through the pages of the REVIEW,” bring you back to 1938.”—p. 4. |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb3386 | “Various cut-ups by William S. Burroughs courtesy of Ohio State University’s Rare Books & Manuscripts Library and the New York Public Library’s Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature ...”—T.p. verso. |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb1119 | “This new edition of Queer is based substantially on the same sources as the 1985 edition ...the most significant differences lie not in the text itself but in its presentation ... First, I have preserved a little more of the roughness in Burroughs’ manuscript, not making a number of very small corrections ... And second, as well as reediting and retitling the epilogue (now, ‘Two Years Later: Mexico City Return’), and re-creating the ‘Panama’ chapter (chapter 7), I have made a number of short insertions of material that was either previously unused or unavailable—roughly five hundred words in the notes and just over a thousand in the text.”—Introduction. |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb2678 | “This new edition ... has been extensively rewritten and revised by the author.”—T.p. verso. |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb1190 | “This fourth [sic] edition includes everything published in the second edition while respecting the 1962 MS’s chapter divisions and restoring the cancelled chapter, entitled ‘Male Image Back In’ ... In the most visible change, this new edition also restores how material from the first edition appeared by putting back a thousand capital letters removed on the galleys in 1965.”—Introduction. |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb1416 | “This edition ends by making choices ... cutting “the invisible generation” [sic] essay as an appendix of historical interest (key passages are referenced in the Notes; the full text is available elsewhere) and restoring the integration of Gysin’s calligraphy as the book’s great transcendent gesture.”—Introduction. |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb3299 | “This edition consists of 26 lettered copies. The photographs were reproduced from the original negatives and are the only prints that will be made from these negatives.”—Colophon. |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb2863 | “This edition ... published on the 20th anniversary of the original appearance of The Naked Lunch, consists of 324 numbered copies in wrappers, 150 numbered copies signed by the author & bound in cloth & boards, & 26 lettered copies which are hors commerce [and signed by Burroughs, Patrick Reagh (the printer), and K. Anders (the illustrator)].”—[p. 45] |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb3099 | “This constitutes the revised expanded edition advertised but never published by Olympia [Press].” [Am Here 3] |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb3839 | “This book was designed and printed by Dave L. Haselwood and James F. McIlroy ...”—Colophon. |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb3681 | “There were probably less [sic] than 50 full sets distributed including a number of which went to libraries.” [Shoaf 1 (quoting the publisher)] |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb4187 | “The text in this edition differs quite extensively from the Olympia first edition.” [BeatBooks 65] Includes, at beginning as “Introduction,” “Deposition: Testimony Concerning a Sickness” [originally published in Evergreen Review, Vol. 4, No. 11 (January-February 1960); see Section C below] and, at end as “Appendix,” “Letter from a Master Addict to Dangerous Drugs” [originally published in The British Journal of Addiction, Vol. 53, No. 2 (January 1957); see Section C below]. |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb2662 | “The t.p. says 1973, but publication was delayed by the London paper shortage. A re-working of Wild Boys material.” [Miles] |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb4267 | “The sections entitled ‘In a Strange Bed’ and ‘The Black Fruit’ were written in collaboration with Michael Portman. The design on p. [183] is by Brion Gysin.”—[p. 4] |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb2681 | “The publisher reports that when the first printing hardcover sold out, they were getting ready to do the fourth printing of the softcover. So the second printing of the hardcover is actually labeled “fourth printing.” There were some leftover dust jackets from the first printing, so those were used with the “fourth printing” until they ran out. The “fourth printing” hardcover was still available from the publisher as late as 2002 but without the dust jacket.” [Shoaf 1] |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb4241 | “The original title of this book was The Johnson Family.”—Prefatory note. |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb3287 | “The lyrics for the song ‘Pantopon Rose,’ written in January 1995, are based on a real character ... She appears in several of Burroughs’ books, including The Naked Lunch ...” |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb249 | “The first, and only, English-language edition in hardcover.” [BeatBooks 65] |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb2977 | “The first collection of cut-ups.” [BeatBooks 65] |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb3851 | “The author wishes to thank Alan E. Norse, upon whose book The Bladerunner, characters and situations in this book are based.”—T.p. verso. |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb3001 | “The Streets of Chance is a complete story found in the 1968 version [of The Soft Machine] and nowhere else. On 30 January 1981, Mr. Burroughs oversaw revisions of the text by James Grauerholz and Steve Miller, and this is that version.”—Colophon. |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb3989 | “The Cat Inside, in different form, was published in a limited edition of 133 copies by The Grenfell Press in 1986, with eight illustrations by Brion Gysin, including those that appear on the cover, title page, and endpapers of this edition.”—T.p. verso. |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb3402 | “The 1953 letters were ... [originally] published in Big Table [No. 2 (Summer 1959)] and [No. 3 (1961)]. Burroughs’ 1960 letter was in [The] Floating Bear No. 5 [(1961)]. ‘I am Dying, Meester?’ was in City Lights Journal No. 1 [(1963)].”—T.p. verso. (See Section C below) |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb629 | “Taiwan piracy of Grove Press first edition, smaller in both height and width than the Grove edition and thinner as well, but having the same dust jacket design, printed on cheap paper, some copies with Taiwan Booksellers’ stamp on rear leaf.” [Shoaf 1] |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb3930 | “Speech delivered 1980 at the occasion of the Institute of Ecotechnics’ ‘1980 Planet Earth Conference’ in Aix-en-Provence.”—T.p. verso. |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb3564 | “Some copies ... released ... with the spines not stapled.” [Shoaf 1] |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb2978 | “Some [early] copies were issued with a white wraparound band ...” [M&M] |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb3164 | “Short text concerning the anti-gay Proposition 6 in the U.S., reprinted here in an abridged form in response to the Tories’ homophobic Clause 27 (which later became Clause 28).” [BeatBooks 51] |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb2437 | “Second printing.” |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb3596 | “Reproduces the contents of the first edition, though in slightly different order, and leaving out p. 9 of the original.” [BeatBooks 51] |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb218 | “Reprinted from Mayfair magazine [Vol. 3, No. 1 (January 1968); See Section C below] as a free public service.”—Back cover. |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb3439 | “Redux makes a large number of changes and corrections—around 250—most of which are small ... the Appendix section ... include[s] previously unpublished primary materials ...”—pp. xlvii-xlviii. |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb3800 | “Printed in an edition of 2,000 copies with a limited edition of 100 [numbered/lettered and] wrapt [sic] in a color jacket, 26 of them signed and numbered [i.e., lettered] by the author.”—T.p. verso. |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb1608 | “Personal Magnetism.” |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb2767 | “Part of this transcript [the first] appeared in Les Langues Modernes, Paris, 1965, with an introduction by Pierre Dommergues.”—p. 2. |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb3944 | “Originally published in Great Britain under the title The Adding Machine: Collected Essays.”—T.p. verso. |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb2436 | “Number One.” |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb2414 | “Number One.” |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb2802 | “Material on cut-ups, fold-ins, tape recorder experiments, and film. Originally conceived in the Chelsea Hotel in 1964-65 ...” [BeatBooks 65] |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb3472 | “Letter from a Master Addict to Dangerous Drugs.” |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb2614 | “Later printings of this edition had the Grove Press/Evergreen Black Cat publisher’s design and number (B-370) ...” [M&M] |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb3450 | “Issued simultaneously bound in [or tipped in] to The Spero, Vol. 1, No. 1 [(1965); See Section C below], and in unfolded state.” [Am Here 3] |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb3911 | “Including complete texts from White Subway, Cobblestone Gardens, and The Retreat Diaries ... Also included are essays on Burroughs by Alan Ansen [“Whoever Can Pick Up a Frying Pan Owns Death”] and Paul Bowles [“Burroughs in Tangier”], and facsimile pages from the famous cut-up scrapbooks of the mid-century: The Book of Hours, John Brady’s Book, and The Old Farmer’s Almanac.”—Dustjacket. |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb2394 | “If 10 or 20 copies did exist [as Fuck You Press publisher Ed Sanders claimed], far fewer have been accounted for.” [Skyline] |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb2943 | “Grateful acknowledgment is made for use of a portion of ‘The Too Fat Polka’ by Ross MacLean and Arthur Richardson.”—T.p. verso. |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb3461 | “From Naked Lunch, Book III: In Search of Yage.” |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb3631 | “For the protection of the reader, we have inserted occasional parenthetical notes [i.e., bracketed editor’s notes] to indicate where the author clearly departs from accepted medical fact or makes other statements in an effort to justify his actions.”—Publisher’s Note. |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb204 | “For further information contact Scientology East, 122 76th St.”—Back cover. |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb3198 | “First published in 1991 as a limited edition by the Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art.”—T.p. verso. |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb4189 | “First issue jacket [printed] with no zip code on rear panel and no roman [sic] numerals on lower spine near back panel.” [PBA 327] |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb2416 | “First Burroughs-approved edition.” [PBA 198] |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb4175 | “First American edition, extensively revised and augmented with reproductions of police photographs, and more exacting film directions.” [Ursus] |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb1606 | “Fifteenth anniversary of the John Burroughs School [St. Louis, MO].”—[p. 1] |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb1609 | “February, 1929”—p. 45. |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb203 | “Excerpted from Mayfair magazine [Vol. 3, No. 1 (January 1968); See Section C below] as a free public service.”—Inside back cover. |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb3597 | “Estimates are that only about 100 copies were actually distributed.” [Shoaf 1] |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb3333 | “Dustjacket reproduces an Ian Sommerville photo-collage of Burroughs’ Olympia Press editions.” [BeatBooks 51] |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb3332 | “Dead Fingers Talk is not a book of selections but a new novel constructed out of these three earlier books [The Naked Lunch, The Soft Machine, and The Ticket That Exploded] together with some new material.”—Dustjacket. |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb959 | “Colophon notes ‘limited to only 50 copies,’ but less [sic] than 10 were actually printed.” [Shoaf 2] |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb3471 | “Approximately fifty copies or less were off-printed for the use of the author at his request.” [Am Here 4] |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb305 | “Apart from making just over a hundred small corrections or changes, this present edition adds to Junky approximately the same amount of new material (around four thousand words) as Junky added to Junkie, but the way it does is, and had to be, quite different.”—Introduction. |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb134 | “Apart from giving the opening sections of each chapter their own titles, the roughly one hundred changes for this edition mainly correct typos or restore Burroughs’ punctuation (including his occasional use of double colons) and are conventionally based (i.e., supported by multiple manuscript witnesses). The notes detail key changes, comment on apparent errors and twilight zone cases and introduce the richest possible selection of archival material to reveal revisions over time and the intricacy of Burroughs’ working methods.”—Introduction. |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb957 | “An apparent piracy of the Pequod edition, printed on bond and bound in ... handmade paper but really just a photocopy of the original work.” [Shoaf 1] |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb1053 | “An apparent piracy of the Hand-Job edition ...” [Shoaf 1] |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb3784 | “Although the colophon calls for ... [the hardbound ed.] ... to be numbered, we don't believe any copies actually were.” [Skyline] |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb2680 | “All copies of the signed limited edition were issued in dustjackets with the upper left-hand corner clipped off since the printed price was correct only for the hardbound trade edition and incorrect for the limited edition. They were clipped and sold at a higher price.” [Shoaf (eBay listing)] |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb2847 | “Ah Pook Is Here was originally planned as a picture book modelled on the surviving Mayan codices. Malcolm McNeill [sic] was to do the illustrations, and I [Burroughs] was to provide the text ... However, owing partly to the expense of full-color reproduction, and because the book falls into neither the category of the conventional illustrated book nor that of a comix publication, there have been difficulties with the arrangements for the complete work ... Finally Malcolm McNeill [sic] and I have decided to publish the text without the artwork, still in hopes of seeing the eventual publication of this work that has been eight years in preparation.”—Preface. |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb3680 | “According to the publisher, a good many of the [LP] records were destroyed by heat, so not all copies of the book were accompanied by the record.” [Skyline] |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb2728 | “A new edition containing the ‘Ugh’ correspondence [originally printed in the Times Literary Supplement No. 3,230 (23 January 1964); see Section C below].”—Cover. |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb3781 | “A more important book than one might first suppose.” [Am Here 62] |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb3782 | “A mixture of autobiographical fiction about the author’s youth and family in St. Louis and material drawn from Naked Lunch and The Wild Boys.” [BeatBooks 51] |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb3179 | “A collection of previously unpublished short stories, routines, letters, and notebook entries, dating from the mid-50s, rediscovered among Allen Ginsberg’s papers at Columbia University in 1984.” [BeatBooks 51] |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb1415 | “A book of The Cut-Up Trilogy.”—Spine. |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb1189 | “A book of The Cut-Up Trilogy.”—Spine. |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb133 | “A book of The Cut-Up Trilogy.”—Spine. |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb1541 | “A Tandem Book, T55” |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb4174 | “A Richard Seaver book.”—T.p. |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb2778 | “A Dutch collection of Burroughs material. There is no English-language equivalent of this title.” [Skyline] |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb3783 | “50 copies hand bound by Michael Scott Cain numbered and signed by the author.”—[p. 54] |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb1188 | “3rd rev. ed.” |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb1414 | “2nd rev. ed.” |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb132 | “1st rev. ed.” |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb2393 | “...aborted edition ... about 10 or 20 of which were distributed before the edition was abandoned.” [Red House 4] |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb3354 | “... written by William Burroughs in Latin America during July and August 1953 ...” - Introduction. |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb2864 | “... the softbound wraps edition did not begin with number ‘1’ but rather with number ‘151.’ That is, after the run of the 150 signed hardbound copies.” [Shoaf 2] |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb2865 | “... the first publication of the earliest known version of the Doctor Benway chapter from ...The Naked Lunch ...” [Publisher’s prospectus, below] |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb3582 | “... the November 30, 1962 issue of Time magazine, with the title ‘India’s Lost Illusions,’ was apparently chosen by Burroughs for parody because that issue includes a savage review of Naked Lunch, as well as Burroughs’ other Olympia Press works, in which Burroughs and other Beat writers are put down as frauds.” [Shoaf 1] |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb2395 | “... that edition had hand-glued photographs to each copy ...” [Am Here] |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb2866 | “... taken from the original manuscript which had been left in the possession of Alan Ansen in Venice in the late 1950s and rediscovered by him in 1973.” [BeatBooks 65] |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb3870 | “... some of the earliest and hitherto uncollected & unpublished writings ... including a long ‘Interzone’ passage from NAKED LUNCH which did not appear in either the Olympia or Grove Press editions ...” —Publisher’s catalogue. |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb145 | “... printed in silver ink. Only 80 copies were produced—less [sic] were distributed.” [Am Here 3] |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb2906 | “... printed at the Toothpaste Press for Bookslinger on the occasion of the author’s reading at the Walker Art Center, October 24, 1979.” |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb1054 | “... limited to 50 [numbered] copies bound in hand-made paper ...”—Colophon. |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb3581 | “... first printing appears in 4 editions: 4 copies hors commerce; 10 copies numbered [sic] A-J, hardbound, each containing an original [signed] manuscript page by Burroughs and an original [signed] drawing by Gysin, signed by both; 100 numbered and signed [by both] copies; 886 copies in a trade edition.”—T.p. |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb747 | “... corrects numerous textual errors accumulated over the years. ... also incorporates Burroughs’s own notes on the text, all the accompanying essays that he added to later editions [i.e., to editions later than the first, but preceding this edition], and ... an appendix of abundant, newly discovered material and alternate drafts from the original manuscript ...”—Dustjacket. |
_:n960e54a51a2f4d7d9ded015bfd1444ddb2380 | “... collects all the Burroughs appearances in Ira Cohen’s legendary magazine Gnaoua from 1964 ...” [See Section C below]—Jed Birmingham in Reality Studio, http://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/pry-yourself-loose-and-listen/ (accessed 24 Sept 2015). |
Advanced export
JSON shape: default, array, newline-delimited, object
CREATE TABLE [Note] ( [id] TEXT PRIMARY KEY, [value] TEXT );