BURROUGHS, William. Dead Fingers Talk. London: John Calder in association with Olympia Press. 1963. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s slate grey cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket which utilises photographs by Ian Sommerville. The book clean and bright, the cloth clean the binding tight and square, mild dust-marking to top edge, with small Foyles label to front pastedown beneath the front flap. The dust jacket quite ragged, complete and unclipped (25s net), but with several large tears along the spine joint, the rear panel joint, and the front flap joint, heavily rubbed and nicked and with some toning to the spine panel. Still, fairly presentable in mylar.
An important and uncommon volume in the Burroughs canon, his fifth novel carefully (and sometimes not) constructed of works from his previous novels, essentially mashed-up.
BURROUGHS, William. Dead Fingers Talk. London: John Calder in association with Olympia Press. 1963. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s slate grey cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket which utilises photographs by Ian Sommerville. The book clean and bright, the cloth clean the binding tight and square, mild dust-marking to top edge, with small Foyles label to front pastedown beneath the front flap. The dust jacket quite ragged, complete and unclipped (25s net), but with several large tears along the spine joint, the rear panel joint, and the front flap joint, heavily rubbed and nicked and with some toning to the spine panel. Still, fairly presentable in mylar.
An important and uncommon volume in the Burroughs canon, his fifth novel carefully (and sometimes not) constructed of works from his previous novels, essentially mashed-up.
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