A Way with Words: Selected Essays (2014)

England: WhollyBooks (book, biography, essays, inscribed), 2014.
8.75" x 6.125" x 0.75", 138 pages, hardcover with dust-jacket.

A Way with Words by Matthew Levi Stevens and C. J. Bradbury Robinson, published by WhollyBooks in 2014 in an unstated number of copies. A book of "the previously untold story of the friendship between William S. Burroughs and C J Bradbury Robinson, concentrating on the former's facilitation of the sale to Olympia Press of the latter's Williams Mix, for which novel WSB wrote his masterly introduction. Also included are Bradbury Robinson's essays on Samuel Beckett and William Burroughs, plus Bill Andriette's review (2005) of CJBR's trilogy of novels." [from the dust-jacket, inside front cover]

This book includes the following essays:

• Matthew Levi Stevens: "On William S. Burroughs and C. J. Bradbury Robinson"
• C. J. Bradbury Robinson: preface to Williams Mix
• William S. Burroughs: introduction to Williams Mix
• C. J Bradbury Robinson: opening paragraphs to Williams Mix
• Bill Andriette: review of Choirboys' Bite
• C. J. Bradbury Robinson: "A Way with Words: Paradox, Silence, and Samuel Beckett"
• C. J. Bradbury Robinson: "A Way with Words: The Theme of Silence in William S. Burroughs"

This also includes a full-color section in the middle which include an image of a smiling Burroughs, a reproduction of the typescript of the Burroughs introduction to Williams Mix with Burroughs' hand annotations, the covers of C. J. Bradbury Robinson's More Please No More [including Williams Mix and the Burroughs introduction] as published by Out Now Press, an image of Samuel Beckett with a note to C. J. Bradbury Robinson, the covers of C. J. Bradbury Robinson's A Crocodile of Choirboys, the inscribed title page of C.J.'s copy of Burroughs' The Soft Machine, and more.  

This copy is inscribed by Matthew Levi Stevens.