BURROUGHS, William S. Port of Saints. London: John Calder. 1983. 8vo. First British edition/first trade edition. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket. A fine copy, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the contents clean and fine throughout. The dust jacket unclipped (£8.95) and fine, uncommon as such.
Originally published in a limited edition by Covent Garden Press in 1973, and a revised edition appeared in the US in 1980. It was the last novel Burroughs wrote before returning to the US and, described as a bizarrely humorous ‘erotic novel’ captured various characters, scenes and side-stories from previous novels and some which would go on to form his bestselling Cities of the Red Night.
BURROUGHS, William S. Port of Saints. London: John Calder. 1983. 8vo. First British edition/first trade edition. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket. A fine copy, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, the contents clean and fine throughout. The dust jacket unclipped (£8.95) and fine, uncommon as such.
Originally published in a limited edition by Covent Garden Press in 1973, and a revised edition appeared in the US in 1980. It was the last novel Burroughs wrote before returning to the US and, described as a bizarrely humorous ‘erotic novel’ captured various characters, scenes and side-stories from previous novels and some which would go on to form his bestselling Cities of the Red Night.
