Gregory Stephenson's The Daybreak Boys (1990)

Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press (book, essays), 1990.
9.25" x 6.25" x 0.875", 218 pages, hardcover with dust-jacket, ISBN 0-8093-1564-5.

Gregory Stephenson's The Daybreak Boys: Essays on the Literature of the Beat Generation, published by Southern Illinois University Press (Carbondale, Illinois) in 1990.  This is a book of essays by Stephenson on the Beat Generation.

At pages 59-73 is "The Gnostic Vision of William S. Burroughs" by Stephenson, where Burroughs writing is compared to "the ritual practices and mythological systems of the Gnostics", serving to "effect self-knowledge, internal transformation, and transcendence."

This copy was formerly owned by Kevin Ring of Beat Scene Press (Binley Woods, England), and was acquired directly from him.