"The Adding Machine: Selected Essays" (1986)

New York City: Seaver Books (book, essays, primary, 1st, signed), 1986.
8.5" x 5.75" x 0.75", 206 pages, hardcover with dust-jacket, ISBN 0-8050-0000-3.

William S. Burroughs' The Adding Machine: Selected Essays, published in 1986 by Seaver Books. Jacket photograph by Jerry Bauer, and jacket design by Robert Reed.

One of the working titles for this book was Misogyny and Other Essays.

This copy, which is signed by William S. Burroughs, was previously his friend Patricia Marvin's copy, and was acquired through Kevin Ring at Beat Scene Press (Binley Woods, England). Inside this copy was tucked a review by J. G. Ballard on The Adding Machine – it is not known what paper this is from.

I additionally have a second copy, unsigned, which has been in my care since the early 1990's. 

Contents: 

• "The Name Is Burroughs"
• "My Own Business"
• "Les Voleurs"
• "Beauty and the Bestseller"
• "A Word to the Wise Guy"
• "Technology of Writing"
• "Creative Reading"
• "Ten Years and a Billion Dollars"
• "It Belongs to the Cucumbers"
• "The Fall of Art"
• "Hemingway"
• "The Great Gatsby"
• "The Johnson Family"
• "Civilian Defence"
• "Sexual Conditioning"
• "On Freud and the Unconscious"
• "On Coincidence"
• "Paris Please Stay the Same"
• "God's Own Medicine"
• "The Last Junky"
• "The Limits of Control"
• "The Hundred Year Plan"
• "Women: A Biological Mistake"
• "Immortality"
• "It Is Necessary to Travel..."
• "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse"
• "The Great Glut"
• "Pop and the Heroids"
• "Mind War"
• "In the Interests of National Security"
• "Notes from Class Transcript"
• "Who Did What Where and When?"
• "An Epitaph"
• "My Experiences with Wilhelm Reich's Orgone Box"
• "How You Stop Smoking"
• "The Maugham Curse"
• "Remembering Jack Kerouac"
• "Beckett and Proust"
• "Graham Greene"
• "Cutting Up Characters"
• "A Review of the Reviewers"
• "Light Reading"
• "Bugger the Queen"