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BURROUGHS, William S. (contributes).

MY OWN MAG #5 (Barnet, Herts.: [nd] circa April 1964).

Ed. Jeff Nuttall. Mimeographed foolscap sheets, stapled. The ‘Special Tangier Edition’, containing the first appearance of The Moving Times.

SIGNED and inscribed by Burroughs on the front cover: “Dear Douglas Lyne, I thought this magazine put out by a friend Mr. J. Nuttall of London might interest you: an experiment in do it yourself present time writing. Please drop me a line from London with best wishes for you and your wife Cordially William Burroughs”.

An additional inscription written above reads “Tangier, Morocco c/o U.S. Consulate May Day” (indicating that, contrary to his recollection in “Bomb Culture”, Nuttall must have received the first manuscript of The Moving Times and published this issue before May 1964).

Lyne and Burroughs had a brief series of meetings in London during the early to mid-sixties, documented in two books, “Walking the London Scene: Five Walks in the footsteps of the Beat Generation” by Sydney Davies (in which Lyne is described as an “archivist and Chelsea habitué”), and “Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire” by Iain Sinclair, both of which mention this inscribed copy of the ‘Special Tangier Edition’ of My Own Mag.

Three old horizontal mailing folds; faint splash mark to back cover; some creasing, esp. to corners and edges; o/w Very Good.

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