Signed by Burroughs & Ginsberg

The Soft Machine. Nova Express. The Wild Boys. Three Novels … With an Epilogue by Allen Ginsberg: An interview with William Burroughs.

New York: Grove Press Outrider, [1980].

Price: $2,000.00


About the item

First edition. 182, 155, 184, [7], [1, ad] pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Signed by Burroughs & Ginsberg. Wrappers. Interior toned, else fine. Maynard & Miles A5, A10, A20 (for first editions).

Item #320207

INSCRIBED on the title page “For Robert A. Wilson with all best wishes and friendship William S. Burroughs September 15th, 1985” and also SIGNED by Allen Ginsberg.
Robert A. Wilson was proprietor of the legendary Phoenix Book Shop in New York City.
A choice association copy, documenting the long literary connection between Ginsberg and Burroughs: it was Ginsberg who helped Junkie find its way into print as an Ace double back in 1953.