Claude Pélieu's "Amphetamin Cowboy" (1976)
Bonn, Germany: Expanded Media Editions (book), 1976. 7.5" x 5.5" x 0.375", 85 numbered pages, softcover. Amphetamin Cowboy , a cut-up prose work by Claude Pélieu, as published in a German-language softcover edition by Expanded Media Editions (Bonn, Germany) in 1976. Translated into German from the French by Carl Weissner. Foreword by Allen Ginsberg. This includes multiple reproductions of collages by Pélieu. This book contains numerous brief references to William S. Burroughs and his work. Most importantly, there is a significant blurb about Claude Pélieu written by William S. Burroughs in London, 23 January 1968, on the back cover. An advertisement for Expanded Media Editions, which includes Burroughs' face, is towards the back of the book. This copy was acquired from Jeffrey Weinberg at Water Row Books (Massachusetts, US).
