Letter from William S. Burroughs to artist Gary Lee-Nova (1975)
10.5" x 7.25", single sheet of stationary, recto only, no envelope.
A letter dated November 8, 1975, from William S. Burroughs to Vancouver-based artist Gary Lee-Nova [also one of the founders of Image Bank] about folio notes to be used in a book. This book was apparently titled "William S. Burroughs Visuals & Project Notes 1974-1975".
This was a project that was not completed. As noted in an email thread between Lee-Nova and myself in 2021:
Sometime in the early mid-1970s, Richard Aaron made available two copies of A Descriptive Catalogue of the William S. Burroughs Archive. The first copy was one of the 26 numbered and signed by all involved. A very beautiful volume. Richard Aaron also made available to me a copy for studies, which I still have and is currently on loan to a writer/musician friend that has been dusted with the WSB pixie dust.
The photos in the Descriptive Catalogue charmed me, and I began to hatch a plan to make a suite of colour silkscreen or lithographic prints for the ideas. All I ever produced were sketches for the project...
In addition to making a package out of the sketches I'd made, all was a project green-lit by WSB. He kept the small portfolio I mailed to him and he was welcome to have it.
The notes eventually found their way to the market as ephemera, but the project itself was never produced.
This item was acquired from Jeffrey Weinberg at Water Row Books.
External Links:
- RealityStudio: Interview with Gary Lee-Nova
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