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$1,200.00
Burroughs, William S.
Covent Garden Press/Am Here Books: London/Ollon (Switzerland). Dated 1973 though not issued until 1975 due to paper supply shortage.
The true first and only edition with this text. A revised edition was issued by Blue Wind Press in 1980.
Only 200 copies printed, 100 numbered and signed, the remainder unsigned. This is one of the 100 unsigned copies which has been subsequently signed by Burroughs on the title page.
A not terribly well made book, this is a nice near fine copy, boards slightly dust soiled, in a near fine example of the fragile dust wrapper, a bit rubbed to the extremities.
One of the scarcer publications in the Burroughs canon.
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