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Burroughs, William. Minutes to Go. Two Cities Edition, Paris, 1960.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Minutes to Go by William Burroughs. Also Sinclair Beils, Gregory Corso and Brion Gysin. First edition in original printed wrappers. Publisher: Two Cities Edition, Paris, (1960) with the acknowledged co-operation of The English Bookshop. 63 pages. Early work by Burroughs. Rear cover is a calligraph in white and blue by Brion Gysin. One of 1,000 copies published on April 13, 1960. Wrapper in very good condition, but front cover faded and re-attached. Light stain to the verso of the cover and extending to the title-page. 5 ¼ x 8 ¼ inches. Over-all a tight clean copy despite the flaws. Inventory #23-045. Price: $150.
Seller: Discovery Bay Old Books ABAA, ILAB, Brentwood, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$189.84 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Publisher's stiff light blue pictorial wrappers. The back cover is a calligraph in white and blue by Brion Gysin. Contributions by Brion Gysin, William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Sinclair Beiles. Burroughs' third book, and the first standalone publication to employ the cut-up technique as Gysin & co. envisioned it. Octavo. 21 x 13.5 cm [1-4]8, 32 leaves; pp. [1-2] 3-63 [64]. Published in an edition of 1,000 copies on 13th April 1960 and priced at 7.20 F. An uncommon and important book in Good condition with some sun fading to covers, splitting at foot of spine and occasional marks to text (four of Burroughs' poems with 'stars'!). The cut-up technique (or découpé in French) is an aleatory literary technique in which a written text is cut up and rearranged to create a new text. The concept can be traced to at least the Dadaists of the 1920s, but was popularized in the late 1950s and early 1960s by writer William S. Burroughs, and has since been used in a wide variety of contexts. Maynard and Miles A3a
Seller: OJ-BOOKS ABA / PBFA, SOLIHULL, United Kingdom
Price: US$211.64 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Paperback. First edition. Edgeworn and sunned cover; the front of the cover has a 6-7cm slit, affecting the opening two pages. Small tear on the spine foot. The binding is visible on the rear hinge and is a little weak at certain points; pages 3-14 are starting to come loose from the binding. Text is clear throughout. CM
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
Price: US$3527.35 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The text originated from various cut-ups, made by all four of these friends staying at the Beat Hotel in Paris in the late 50 s. Signed by Burroughs, Gysin and Beilis. The signed copies (of which this is one) were produced ad hoc at the night of the launch party at the English Bookshop in Paris, whilst Corso was in Munich finalizing the Beat Anthology he and Anselm Hollo were bringing out. (Copies with Corso s signature are a bit suspect.) Fading to cover as usual, though mystery why the fading goes from blue to grey-brown. Near fine otherwise.
Seller: Indexbooks/Peter Gidal, london, United Kingdom
Price: US$37500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Wrappers, rather worn and read, Burrough's third book. INSCRIBED by Burroughs, Beiles, and Gysin (Corso was there but may have been Corso and refused to sign) at the publication party to Gait Froge, the owner of the English Bookshop in Paris and the angel who put up the 500 to get the book published. Essentially the DEDICATION COPY. A museum piece. Details on request.
Seller: NUDEL BOOKS, New York, NY, U.S.A.