The Frisco Kid He Never Returns, softcover (2023)








London, England: Tangerine Press (book, limited, 1st), 2023.
10.75" x 7.75", ~38 pages including fold-out, of 200 card-covered copies w/stitched binding (out of a total edition of 250).

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 copy acquired from Jeffrey Weinberg of Water Row Books.

Contents: 

  • 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

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