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SIDEWALK #2 (Edinburgh: 1960).
Ed. Alex Neish. 8vo. Stapled wrps., 64pp.
Burroughs contributes “Have You Seen Slotless City?” (6pp.), including “The Cut Up Method of Brion Gysin” (four short paragraphs, a different, more condensed text than versions published later), and “Slotless City Cut Up, Cut City”.
Also: Edwin Morgan; Robert Creeley; Dave Haselwood; Michael Rumaker; Gary Snyder; and others.
Inside back cover prints an ad. for Jim Haynes’s Paperback Bookstore in Edinburgh, recently famous for a sale of the recently unbanned and newly republished “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” to an elderly woman who promptly set fire to it outside the shop.
Very Good plus.