Roger Knoebber's Copy of "Literary Outlaw", twice signed (1988)

New York City: Henry Holt and Company (book, 1st HC, inscribed), 1988.
9.25" x 6.25" x 1.875", 659 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, ISBN 0-8050-0901-9.

Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs, a biography of Burroughs by author Ted Morgan [Sanche De Gramont] as published in hardcover by Henry Holt and Company (New York City) in 1988. Designed by Victoria Hartmann.Jacket design by Robert Anthony, Inc. Cover photograph by Bill Belli.

This is Beat Hotel resident and author Roger Knoebber's copy, inscribed by Burroughs: "For Roger / With love / and baraka / William S. Burroughs / May 22, 1989"

Additionally, this is inscribed by Nick Smart: "December 1988 / Dear Roger, / Here is an interesting life story – / I guess we weren't the only ones who look / back on 1959 at 9 Rue Gît-le-Coeur as a / magical time and place – / Love, / Nick Smart"

Roger Knoebber and Nick Smart were both residents of "The Beat Hotel" in Paris with Burroughs, Gysin, and others. At the time, Nick Smart was responsible for the production and sale of the Left Bank This Month journal while at the location. Roger Knoebber – a minor Beat author – was a close friend of Brion Gysin until his passing in 1986 and was well–acquainted with the Beats who resided at the hotel at the time.

This copy was acquired with Roger Knoebber's Gysin archives from Roger's son Cosmo and is maintained with the Knoebber archive.

Shoaf IV.124.
Schottlaender v4.H33A.

Contents: 

• Note on Method
• Prologue: The Induction, 1983
• 1. St. Louis: 1914-1931
• 2. Los Alamos: 1929-1932
• 3. Cambridge: 1932-1938
• 4. New York: 1939-1941
• 5. Chicago and New York: 1942-1944
• 6. "And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks": 1944
• 7. Junk: 1945-1946
• 8. Texas: 1947-1948
• 9. Louisiana: 1948-1949
• 10. Mexico: 1949-1952
• 11. Columbia: 1953
• 12. Tangier: 1954-1958
• 13. Paris: 1958-1960
• 14. Naked Lunch: 1959-1966
• 15. Burroughs Meets Leary: 1960-1961
• 16. Burroughs at Large: 1962-1965
• 17. The London Years: 1966-1973
• 18. New York: 1974-1976
• 19. Billy: 1974-1981
• 20. The Bunker: 1976-1981
• 21. Lawrence: 1981-1988
• Acknowledgments and Sources
• Notes
• Index  

Burroughs-Related Items in the Roger Knoebber Archive: 

• Second Draft, 1990, of the Naked Lunch Film Script
  
• William S. Burroughs Exhibition Invitation, Galerie K, Paris, 1990
• François Lagarde Photograph of Burroughs and Gysin, 1975
• Philip Heying Photograph of Burroughs with Cat Ruski, n.d.
• Philip Heying Photograph of Burroughs and His Pumpkin, Halloween 1996
• Letter Copy from Roger Knoebber to William S. Burroughs, June 5, 1990
• Letter Copy from Roger Knoebber to James Grauerholz, October 7, 1991
• Letter Copy from Roger Knoebber to James Grauerholz, September 12, 1991
• Letter from James Grauerholz to Roger Knoebber, December 7, 1991
• Letter from James Grauerholz to Roger Knoebber, February 26, 1992
• Letter Copy from Roger Knoebber to James Grauerholz and William S. Burroughs, February 13, 1993
• Letter from Roger Knoebber to James Grauerholz, February 23, 1996
• Roger Knoebber Response to the International Herald Tribune's Obituary of William S. Burroughs, August 6, 1997
• Letter from Oliver Harris to Roger Knoebber, May 4, 1990
• Letter from Oliver Harris to Roger Knoebber, June 9, 1990
• Roger Knoebber's Copy of Ted Morgan's Literary Outlaw, Signed by Burroughs and Nick Smart, 1988
• Roger Knoebber's copy of the Burroughs and Gysin Book The Third Mind, Inscribed, 1978

External Links: 

• Nicolas Knoebber: "Once Well" by Roger Knoebber
• Top Photo: photograph of Nick Smart by Harold Chapman, c.1960