Beat Bible (2005)

Milan, Italy: Photology (boxed set, two books, 1st, limited), 2005.
12.25" x 19.625" x 2", box with burned-in title and limitation, containing two books:
9.375" x 11.375" x 1.125" ("Beats & Pieces"), 256 pages, hardcover, this signed; 
and 9.375" x 11.375" x 0.75" ("Beat Books: 1944-1965"), ~144 pages, hardcover, this signed.

Beat Bible, a boxed set of two books assembled by Fernanda Pivano, containing Beats & Pieces: A Complete Story of the Beat Generation by Fernanda Pivano with photographs by Allen Ginsberg, and Beat Books 1944-1965, a volume describing a number of volumes of beat writing, well-illustrated.

Burroughs shows up throughout these two volumes.  In Beats & Pieces, William Burroughs is discussed at pages 112-113. Images of William Burroughs by Allen Ginsberg are at pages 30, 31, 35, 37, 39, 50, 51, 56, 89, 90, 93, 95, 98, 99, 101, 204, 205, 225, 226, 227, 229, 231, and 232. Joan Vollmer Burroughs is discussed at pages 118-119.

In Beat Books: 1944-1965, the following William S. Burroughs books (and including anthologies) are pictured:

• Minutes To Go, Two Cities Editions, 1960
• New American Story, ed. by Donald M. Allen and Robert Creeley, Grove Press, 1965
• Big Table, issue 1, ed. by Irving Rosenthal, Spring 1959
• Big Table, issue 2, ed. by Irving Rosenthal, Summer 1959
• Junkie, Ace Books, 1953
• The Naked Lunch, The Olympia Press, 1959
• The Exterminator, The Auerhahn Press, 1960
• La Scimmia Sulla Schiena [Junkie], Rizzoli, 1962
• Nova Express, Grove Press, 1964
• The Ticket That Exploded, Grove Press, 1967
• La Lettere Dello Yage [The Yage Letters], Sugar Editore, 1967
• Nova Express, Sugar Editore, 1967
• Sterminatore! [Exterminator!], Sugar Editore, 1969
• Il Pasto Nudo [The Naked Lunch], Sugar Editore, 1970
• The Yage Letters, City Lights, 1971
• City Lights Journal, issue 1, City Lights, 1963
• The Beat Generation and the Angry Young Men, Dell, 1959
• The Moderns, ed. by LeRoi Jones, Corinth Books, 1963
• The Beats, ed. by Seymour Krim, Fawcett, 1960
• A Casebook on the Beat Generation, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1961
• Yugen, issue 3, ed. by LeRoi Jones and Hattie Cohen, 1958
• Yugen, issue 8, ed. by LeRoi Jones and Hattie Cohen, 1962

This copy, which is #825 of 999 copies published, was acquired from PBA Galleries. Beats & Pieces is signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti below a group photo by Allen Ginsberg at City Light Books, at page 78.  Beat Books is signed by Lawrence Ferlinghetti just after entry number 60.