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BURROUGHS, William S.

Mayfair Acadamy [sic] Series More or Less.

Brighton, Sussex: Urgency Press Rip-Off, nd. (c. late 1972/early 1973). First edition. Staple-bound, stiff pink pictorial wrappers. Printed on different colour papers, stapled and trimmed at the press operated by Bill Butler’s partner, Mike Hughes, above the Unicorn bookshop in Brighton.

Reprints ten of the Burroughs ‘Academy Bulletins’ from Mayfair magazine, along with other articles he wrote for them, together with an essay on Burroughs “originally presented as an M.A. thesis in Philosophy” by the book’s publisher, Roy Pennington.

Small ownership label of the poet, writer and translator Alexis Lykiard inside upper wrapper, alongside a pencilled three-digit number. Very Good plus. One of 650 copies.

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