BURROUGHS, William S. Ah Pook is Here and Other Texts. London: John Calder. 1979. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s purple cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Brian Paine with wonderful endpapers and illustrations by Bob Gale. This copy near fine, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the contents fine. The book altogether fine, in fact, but for some of the usual fading at the jacket spine panel leading into the front panel. Unclipped (£5.95) and otherwise fine.
An important volume charting Burroughs’ gradual move towards collaboration with the visual arts, collecting three stories or ‘texts’—Ah Pook first published here, together with The Book of Breeething (originally published in 1974) and Electronic Revolution (originally published in The Job in 1971). Ah Pook considers control by way of Mayan philosophy and theology; The Book of Breeething is a pictorial script, written by Burroughs and sketched by Bob Gale, considering the essence of words; while 'Electronic Revolution is ‘a treatise on revolutionary tactics and weapons’. Long-time Burroughs collaborator, Malcolm McNeill, produced over one hundred colour sketches to sit alongside Ah Pook, but the printing costs made such production unmanageable—the text and illustrations finally came together in 2012 under the title The Last Art of Ah Pook. This volume increasingly scarce.
BURROUGHS, William S. Ah Pook is Here and Other Texts. London: John Calder. 1979. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s purple cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Brian Paine with wonderful endpapers and illustrations by Bob Gale. This copy near fine, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the contents fine. The book altogether fine, in fact, but for some of the usual fading at the jacket spine panel leading into the front panel. Unclipped (£5.95) and otherwise fine.
An important volume charting Burroughs’ gradual move towards collaboration with the visual arts, collecting three stories or ‘texts’—Ah Pook first published here, together with The Book of Breeething (originally published in 1974) and Electronic Revolution (originally published in The Job in 1971). Ah Pook considers control by way of Mayan philosophy and theology; The Book of Breeething is a pictorial script, written by Burroughs and sketched by Bob Gale, considering the essence of words; while 'Electronic Revolution is ‘a treatise on revolutionary tactics and weapons’. Long-time Burroughs collaborator, Malcolm McNeill, produced over one hundred colour sketches to sit alongside Ah Pook, but the printing costs made such production unmanageable—the text and illustrations finally came together in 2012 under the title The Last Art of Ah Pook. This volume increasingly scarce.
