BURROUGHS, William S.; GYSIN, Brion. The Third Mind. London: John Calder. 1979. 8vo. First British edition, published one year after the US edition. Publisher’s pale blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket which uses a visceral photograph by Mayotte Magnus. An about fine copy, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the contents clean and fine with numerous illustrations throughout. The dust jacket unclipped ((£5.95) and fine but for a touch of crimping.
A compilation by writer and artist to form what is essentially the cut-up technique rulebook. Though a version of the technique had appeared as early as the 1920s, it was Gysin who ‘invented’ the technique and Burroughs who popularised it. Gysin famously said literature was some fifty years behind painting as an art form. The essays here draw upon adopting the technique and consider the success and failings of it used in Burroughs’ own novels. Scarce.
BURROUGHS, William S.; GYSIN, Brion. The Third Mind. London: John Calder. 1979. 8vo. First British edition, published one year after the US edition. Publisher’s pale blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket which uses a visceral photograph by Mayotte Magnus. An about fine copy, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the contents clean and fine with numerous illustrations throughout. The dust jacket unclipped ((£5.95) and fine but for a touch of crimping.
A compilation by writer and artist to form what is essentially the cut-up technique rulebook. Though a version of the technique had appeared as early as the 1920s, it was Gysin who ‘invented’ the technique and Burroughs who popularised it. Gysin famously said literature was some fifty years behind painting as an art form. The essays here draw upon adopting the technique and consider the success and failings of it used in Burroughs’ own novels. Scarce.
