William S Burroughs Foreword (11 results)

paperback. Condition: Like New. Trade paperback. Square Tight Binding. Clean interior. in as new condition.A superior edition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. (xv) 266 pp. Light edge and corner wear with a crease on the spine; previous owner's name inside. Cover art by Stanislaw Fernandes. Discusses the work of: Edgar Rice B urroughs; Philip K. Dick; Thomas M. Disch; Robert A. Heinlein; Frank Herbert; William Hope Hodgson; C. S. Lewis; H. P. Lovecraft; A. Merritt; Walter M. Miller; Jack Vance; Jules Verne; Stanley G. Wein baum; H. G. Wells; Jack Williamson; S. Fowler Wright; John Wyndham; Roger Zelazny; Michael Moorcock; Larry Niven; H. Beam Piper; Frederik Pohl; C. M. Kornbluth; Joanna Russ; Mary Shelley; Cordwainer S mith; E. E. "Doc" Smith; Olaf Stapledon; Theodore Sturgeon; A. E. Van Vogt; Fritz Leiber; Henry Kuttner; C. L. Moore; Ursula K. Le Guin; Harlan Ellison; M. John Harrison; Gordon R. Dickson; Arthur C. Clarke; Hal Clement; Samuel R. Delany; Poul Anderson; Isaac Asimov; J. G. Ballard; Alfred Bester; James Blish; Ray Bradbury; John Brunner; and many many others. Stanislaw Fernandes; (illustrator). Book. …

First edition, first printing Gifted to the poet Janine Pommy Vega with its gift giver's address and phone number and name to the inside front cover. A full reading on the subject. The contributors are mindbending from Henri Michaux, to Box Car Bertha Thompson, Gerard de Nerval, and many others. Near fine stiff wraps with strong spine and clean text. …

First edition Very fine and bright in like pictorial dustjacket with crisp bright text throughout. Jack Kerouac called Huncke "the greatest storyteller I know." Crisp as new text throughout with terrific black and white photographs of the Beat legend. New and bright all around, gift quality.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Bookseller catalog. Foreword by William S. Burroughs. Slim octavo. Pictorial wrappers. Illustrated. Wrappers with some soiling and a slightly toned spine, very good. Offers 360 Burroughs items for sale.

First edition, first printing Has become quite scarce and very attractive copy. From the library of the poet Janine Pommy Vega at one time a close comrade with Herbert Huncke. Tipped in a post-it handwritten note by Ben Schafer, the editor with this fine collection. Nicely illustrated with vintage portraits and photographs. From Janine Pommy Vega's personal library. Quite close to fine bright pictorial stiff wraps with strong spine and clean text.…

First edition, first printing Has become quite scarce in first edition. From the library of poet Janine Pommy Vega, a close comrade to Huncke. Tipped in the Herbert Huncke Reader is a tribute announcement reading which was held November 3 1997. This copy, by its editor Ben Schafer, has been affectionately inscribed to Janine Pommy Vega and Schafer has handwritten in Huncke's dates 1915-1996. A wonderful association copy in close to find cloth with pictorial dust jacket.…

Softcover. Condition: Fine. No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. First American edition. INSCRIBED by Harold Norse to San Francisco poet Jim Nawrocki on title page and SIGNED in full by Norse below that. Fine in pictorial wrappers. ; 5 1/4" x 8"; 76 pages.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. No Dust Jacket. Reprint; Fourth Printing. Fourth printing. INSCRIBED by Timothy Leary on front end-paper. "To , , , Let's continue- Tim Leary" underneath Leary prints his telephone number. Fine in trade-size paperback. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 405 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, [14], 76pp, [2]. Publisher's original illustrated paperback wrappers, brown and white cover illustration, title and author printed on front cover, title on spine. Newspaper clipping previously laid in, discoloring two leaves. From the colophon, this first edition consisted of 1900 paperbound copies, and 100 specially bound and signed by the author. This copy is inscribed on the half title: "For Charles Whaley / and the interesting meetings at the Macondo. / Best Wishes, Harold Norse / 20 November 1993 / San Francisco." Harold Norse wrote this experimental novel while living at the Beat Hotel in Paris in 1960, along with William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg. It first appeared in German translation by Carl Weissner from Maro Verlag in 1975, before its English-language publication by Atticus Press in 1983. The recipient of this copy, Charles Edward Whaley (1928-2025) was a Kentucky journalist and critic whose seven-decade career centered on education, books, theater, and the arts. Whaley worked for The Louisville Courier-Journal for most of his career. The first edition of Beat Hotel by Harold Norse, inscribed by Norse to Kentucky journalist Charles Whaley. Includes a foreword by William S. Burroughs. (illustrator). Signed.…

First, Limited Edition. No. 18 of 100 signed, cloth-bound copies, from a total edition of 2000. Octavo. Maroon cloth hardcover; dustjacket; [8] [1]-78,[2]pp. Fine - apparently unread. In the original pictorial dustwrapper, completely unworn - fine. A new-appearing copy. Signed by Morse at the colophon. Norse's great, weird novella, set among the Beat residents of the nameless fleabag Paris hotel on the Rue Git-le-Coeur that, during the decade of the Fifties, was home-from-home to an amazing array of American expatriate writers and lovers: Bill Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Brion Gysin, Allen Ginsberg, Harold Norse himself and innumerable other casual participants. Genuinely scarce in this limited issue. Signed.…