The Frisco Kid He Never Returns, limited hardcover, 2023
London, England: Tangerine Press (book, limited, 1st, numbered and signed), 2023.
11" x 8" x 0.5", ~38 pages including fold-out, of 50 hardcover copies (out of a total edition of 250), numbered and signed by Iain Sinclair, with manila envelope of supplemental materials.
A short work by Burroughs intended for Albatross (of which only a few known copies exist), sandwiched by essays by Iain SInclair, photographs, and an illustration for Icarus by Tim Booth.
This is one of fifty copies [this is #26] that is accompanied by a manila envelope with supplemental materials. The book is numbered and signed by Iain Sinclair.
This copy acquired from Jeffrey Weinberg of Water Row Books.
Contents:
- Book:
- Iain Sinclair: "Dead Fingers Talk: Tangier to Dublin, 1963" (essay)
- Tim Booth: "Short Piece: William Burroughs" (illustration for Icarus #46)
- William S. Burroughs: "The Frisco Kid he never returns" (prose, Cut-Up)
- John Deakin: "Tangier Street" (photograph)
- Iain Sinclair: "Interzone Tangier: The Man Who Was Not William Burroughs" (essay)
- Iain Sinclair: "Burroughs at His Desk" (photograph)
- Ian Sommerville: "Beat Hotel with Mirror" (photograph)
- Iain Sinclair: "Now Back to the Mirror Window: Beat Hotel" (essay)
- biographies
- acknowledgements and limitation
- Envelope:
- limitation and contents sheet
- Iain Sinclair: "Burroughs at Home in Lawrence, Kansas (1995)" (photograph)
- William S. Burroughs: reproduced letter from Burroughs to Sinclair, November 5, 1963
- William S. Burroughs: reproduction of the typescript for "The Frisco Kid he never returns", two pages
- Ian Sommerville [uncredited]: "Beat Hotel with Mirror" (photo of Burroughs, Brion Gysin, and Ian Sommerville at the Beat Hotel)
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