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Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Prospectus for two Red Ozier publications: The Woman & The Knife, by Aime Cesaire, and The Streets of Chance, by William S. Burroughs. Single sheet, 8 7/8 x 11 1/8 inches, folded once, engraving on recto of first leaf. Near fine (slight sunning?). (3214025)
Seller: Boojum and Snark Books, Kanab, UT, U.S.A.
BURROUGHS, William. The Streets of Chance. New York: The Red Ozier Press, 1981.
Price: US$641.38 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: BURROUGHS, William. The Streets of Chance. New York: The Red Ozier Press 1981. Cover and text illustrations, including folding plate, by Howard Buchwald. First Separate Edition. One of a limited edition of 160 numbered copies, this being copy number 132, signed by the author and illustrator. Hand-set in Optima type produced at the Out of Sorts foundry on a Thompson typecaster from lino-type matrices, printed on Frankfurt paper and hand bound in original decorated grey buckram by the Twelfth Night Bindery. The project was imagined and produced at Red Ozier's Chelsea workshop by Ken Botnick & Steve Miller. Laid-in is a typed note from Steve Miller of the Red Ozier Press, dated May 1983, to Leyland, Dear Winston . . . regarding the blind stamping on the spine of The Streets of Chance. Message on one side, unattributed woodcut on verso. Fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Fine copy, as issued. Notes: The Streets of Chance is a homoerotic short story first issued by Burroughs in the 1968 Calder and Boyers edition of The Soft Machine, here revised and reissued in this finely printed edition. A note in the book reads, "The Soft Machine was published in 1961 by Olympia in Paris; 1967 by Grove in New York; and in 1968 by Calder & Boyars in London. Each successive edition contained revisions and additional material and in particular the 1968 version contained sections written in the mid-1960's employing the newly-perfected cut-up technique. The Streets of Chance is a complete story found in the 1968 version and nowhere else. In 1981, Mr. Burroughs oversaw revisions of the text by James Grauerholz and Steve Miller, and this is that version." This copy comes from the library of Winston Leyland, and has a typed letter signed by Steve Miller of the Red Ozier Press loosely laid in. Leyland is a British-American author and editor and a leading figure in American LGBT publishing, who won the Stonewall Book Award in 1980. He was the founding publisher of The Gay Sunshine Press, and is particularly notable for his Gay Sunshine interviews with prominent gay writers.
Seller: William Cowan, Oban, United Kingdom
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo. Decorated cloth covers. Issued without dustwrapper. 20 pp. A fine copy. This is copy #9 of only 160 hand-numbered copies SIGNED BY BOTH BURROUGHS and BUCHWALD. Optima type, hand-set on Frankfurt papers. Publisher prospectus laid in. From the colophon" The Soft Machine was published in 1961 by Olympia Press in Paris; in 1967 by Grove Press in New York; and in 1968 by Calder & Boyars in London; among other editons. Each successive edition contained revisions and additional material and in particular the 1968 version contained sections written in the mid-1960's employing the newly-perfected cut-up technique. The Streets of Chance is a complete story found in the 1968 version and nowhere else. On 30 January 1981, Mr. Burroughs oversaw revisions of the text by James Grauerholz and Steve Miller, and this is that version." Among the truly scarce books of Burrough's from this period.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.