White Subway (1973)

 

London, England: Aloes Books (book, primary, 1st, signed), 1973.
8.375" x 6.25" x 0.25", 74 pages, softcover.

White Subway, a compilation of works by William S. Burroughs (and Alan Ansen and Paul Bowles) from a variety of periodical sources, published by James Pennington's Aloes Books (London) in 1973. 1,000 first printing copies produced.

This specific first printing copy is signed by Burroughs, and was acquired from Andrew Sclanders at BeatBooks (UK).

I additionally have a second signed first printing copy in lesser condition in the archive (some minor marginalia and some wear).

Maynard & Miles A24a.
Shoaf I.26.
Schottlaender v4.A30.

Contents: 

• "Unfinished Cigarette" (from Birmingham Bulletin, Issue 2, Autumn 1963)
• "Distant Hand Lifted" (from Transatlantic Review, Issue 15, 1964)
• "The Conspiracy" (from Kulchur, Issue 1 Spring 1960)
• "The Danish Operation" (from Arcade, Issue 1, 1964)
• "The Cut" (from Arcade, Issue 1, 1964)
• "Ancient Face Gone Out" (from Gnaoua, Issue 1, Spring 1964)
• "Who Is the Third that Walks Beside You?" (from Art & Literature, Issue 2, Summer 1964)
• "The Last Post Danger Ahead" (from Lines, Issue 6, November 1965)
• "Palm Sunday Tape" (from Bulletin from Nothing, Issue 2, 1965)
• "The Beginning Is Also the End" (from Transatlantic Review, Issue 14, Autumn 1963)
• "The Coldspring News" (from The Spero, Issue 1, 1965)
• "Who is the walks beside you written 3rd?" (from Darazt, July 1965) [note: I consider this an anthology, rather than a periodical]
• "St. Louis Return" (from The Paris Review, Volume 9, Number 35, Fall 1965)
• "Composite Text" (from Bulletin from Nothing, Issue 1, 1965) [note that this is periodical is sometimes referred to as Underground Telegram]
• "Anyone Who Picks Up a Frying Pan Can Own Death" by Alan Ansen (from Big Table, Issue 2, Summer 1959)
• "Burroughs in Tangier" by Paul Bowles (from Big Table, Issue 2, Summer 1959)