BURROUGHS, William S. White Subway. London: Aloes Books. n.d. circa 1965. 8vo. Softcover wraps. First edition, being one of 1000 copies. A near fine copy, just a trifle bumped at extremities, but clean and bright inside and out.
A scarce volume by Burroughs—Aloes reprinted it in 1973, but this first printing is scarce. The volume includes several of his almost-always excellent bulletins, which were usually experimental in form and style. It also includes a review of his work by Alan Anson, who met Burroughs just before he went to Tangier in 1954. It finishes with a thrilling review of the man by fellow Tangier-based American writer, Paul Bowles, his reading of Burroughs’ Junky, and reading the manuscript pages of what would become Naked Lunch. ‘Gertrude Stein would have called him self-indulgent; he certainly is not ever hampered by even a shadow of the feeling of guilt, ever.’ Scarce.
BURROUGHS, William S. White Subway. London: Aloes Books. n.d. circa 1965. 8vo. Softcover wraps. First edition, being one of 1000 copies. A near fine copy, just a trifle bumped at extremities, but clean and bright inside and out.
A scarce volume by Burroughs—Aloes reprinted it in 1973, but this first printing is scarce. The volume includes several of his almost-always excellent bulletins, which were usually experimental in form and style. It also includes a review of his work by Alan Anson, who met Burroughs just before he went to Tangier in 1954. It finishes with a thrilling review of the man by fellow Tangier-based American writer, Paul Bowles, his reading of Burroughs’ Junky, and reading the manuscript pages of what would become Naked Lunch. ‘Gertrude Stein would have called him self-indulgent; he certainly is not ever hampered by even a shadow of the feeling of guilt, ever.’ Scarce.
