Item #40556 AN AMERICAN AVANT GARDE: FIRST WAVE. An Exhibit. Featuring the William S. Burroughs Collection and work by other avant garde artists.
AN AMERICAN AVANT GARDE: FIRST WAVE. An Exhibit. Featuring the William S. Burroughs Collection and work by other avant garde artists.

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AN AMERICAN AVANT GARDE: FIRST WAVE. An Exhibit. Featuring the William S. Burroughs Collection and work by other avant garde artists.

Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University, Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, 2001. First edition. Sm. 4to. Perfect bound wrps., 48pp. Photo-illustrated in colour throughout.

Catalogue for the exhibition held at Ohio State University between May and August 2001, curated by John M. Bennett and Geoffrey D. Smith, printing a detailed list of exhibits and a 6pp. introduction by James Grauerholz in which he recounts the story of the sale of the William S. Burroughs Archive in 1973 to Roberto Altmann, a poet, artist and the son of a wealthy financier.

Illustrations include pages from Burroughs’ scrapbooks, dream and yagé notebooks, original typescripts, cut-up fragments, and correspondence, as well as a page from a notebook by Brion Gysin, postcards to Burroughs from Genesis P-Orridge, and a mail art piece by Ray Johnson.

Slight rubbing to lower wrapper and spine edges, o/w about Near Fine.

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