Battle Instructions (with Brion Gysin), 2020

Germany: Moloko Print (book, primary, 1st), 2020.
8.25" x 5.5" x 0.5",  ~186 pages, softcover only.

First release of Battle Instructions by William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin, edited by Oliver Harris, and published by Moloko Print ("069") in 2020. 

From the introduction by Oliver Harris: 

"A unique lost manuscript pieced together from the archives, BATTLE INSTRUCTIONS weaponises the methods of radical art for acts of anarchic insurrection against the global elites and alien powers that rule our planet. Just as fresh and ferocious as when it was written in 1960, it reveals Burroughs the polemicist and prophet at his most revolutionary, the cut-up guerrilla tactician and man of ideas at his most incendiary, a surprise to even dedicated followers and a spectacular introduction for new readers..."

"The 56-page typescript on which the first six sections of BATTLE INSTRUCTIONS are based – the Auerhahn Manuscript, mailed by Burroughs to Haselwood on August 30, 1960, an incomplete, unidentified copy of which is in the Berg Collection – makes it far closer to The Exterminator; for this was to have been a similar collaborative pamphlet, with half a dozen of Gysin's calligraphic drawings and repetitive poems. Respecting the archival manuscript, rather than their plans for it, however, only one Gysin poem and one drawing have made the cut for this edition."