Item #40802 In The Beginning Was The Word: A Collection of Post-Modern Poetry Books, Manuscripts & Letters. William S. BURROUGHS, contributes.
In The Beginning Was The Word: A Collection of Post-Modern Poetry Books, Manuscripts & Letters.
In The Beginning Was The Word: A Collection of Post-Modern Poetry Books, Manuscripts & Letters.

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In The Beginning Was The Word: A Collection of Post-Modern Poetry Books, Manuscripts & Letters.

Santa Barbara, CA: Am Here Books Catalogue Five, 1981/1982. Trade issue (there was also a deluxe edition issued with various inserts). 4to. Stiff glossy wrps. Cover design (a homage to Brion Gysin) by the proprietor of Am Here Books, Richard Aaron. Printed at the Peace Press, Los Angeles.

A catalogue of modern literature offered for sale (more than 2000 items), with commentary by William Burroughs (“The Last Words of Hassan-i Sabbah”, which runs through the catalogue as a tickertape at the top of each page and culminates in two full pages).

A pocket on the inside rear cover contains a 45rpm 7-inch vinyl record of Burroughs reading the text (c. 18 mins.), recorded at the Beat Hotel, c. 1959 (see item #19). The catalogue lists 44 Burroughs items, including one of his Scrapbooks.

Many of the catalogue entries are written by poets and writers, among them Tom Clark (several Burroughs items), Robert Creeley, Ed Dorn, Charles Plymell, Dennis Cooper, and Lewis MacAdams, who contributes a 3pp. essay on Burroughs and the importance of his work.

Disc unplayed; catalogue Near Fine.

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