Brown Paper Archive: Exterminate the Exterminator (1962)

New York City: Daniel Lauffer (handmade book, parody, signed), 1962.
8.5" x 7", 8 pages incl cover.

This is an original, hand-made parody of the Burroughs and Gysin book The Exterminator by Daniel Lauffer, called Exterminate the Exterminator by “William Ollivetti and Lord Byron Gympsum [sic]” containing parody Cut-Up material (“IF YOU TAKE BALONEY AND CUT IT YUP YOU GET BALONEY THIS IS GESTALT SPELLED BACKWARDS.”) which was presented in the periodical Brown Paper. This also contains spoofs of Brion Gysin’s calligraphy and Permutation poetry.

This specific copy was mailed to William S. Burroughs in Tangier to make an initial connection; Burroughs signed this item, both on cover and on title page, adding “(Lettera 22)” after “William Ollivetti [sic]” at the title page, and then responded to Lauffer with a letter of December 27, 1963 [in the archive], noting that “Exterminate the Exterminator…. seems ina [sic] sense to be authentic and I will sign it and return it to you when I hear confirmation of the address.”

Burroughs mailed the signed item back to Lauffer with a letter dated March 14, 1964 along with some typescript material [also in the archive].

This item is well described in an interview between Jed Birmingham and Dan Lauffer at RealityStudio.

The Brown Paper Archive was acquired from the Estate of Daniel Lauffer through Derringer Books (Avon, CT.)

The Brown Paper Archive: 

• Exterminate the Exterminator by Daniel Lauffer 
• Letter from William S. Burroughs to Daniel Lauffer on December 27, 1963
• Cut-Ups by Burroughs from the work of Samuel Beckett (c.1963)
• Cut-up of Exterminate the Exterminator by William S. Burroughs (1963)
• Letter from William S. Burroughs to Daniel Lauffer on March 14, 1964
• Three-Column Typescript by William S. Burroughs for Brown Paper (1962/1964)
• Letter from William S. Burroughs to Daniel Lauffer on October 25, 1964
• Daniel Lauffer's copy of Brown Paper can be viewed at the Outskirts of the City link below.

External Links: 

• RealityStudio: Interview with Brown Paper's Daniel Lauffer
• Outskirts of the City: Brown Paper, 1965