"Fröhliche Wissenschaft": Das Archiv Sohn (1986)

Stuttgart, Germany: Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (book, exhibition catalog), 1986.
12.5" x 10" x 1", 184 pages, hardcover in dust-jacket with reproductions in B&W and color, 2500 copies printed.

Excellent, well-illustrated catalogue edited by Thomas Kellein of an exhibition of Hanns Sohn's archives at Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany between November 22, 1986 and January 1, 1987. A chapter is dedicated to the Beat writers, with William S. Burroughs as the center of the chapter – "Von Burroughs zur Beat-Szene", pp. 17-32.  Includes images of books and periodicals in which Burroughs is represented, from the more familiar to "Scrapbook 3", "The Moving Times" Project Sigma poster, and an image of the full run of Rhinozeros.

Acquired from Antiquariat & Verlag Winfried Jenior (Kassel, Germany).