Hors Commerce Doctor Benway (1979)

Santa Barbara, California: Bradford Morrow Bookseller (book, signed, 1st, association, hors commerce), 1979.
9.375" x 6.75" x 0.375", 46 pages, hardcover.

William S. Burroughs' Doctor Benway: A variant passage from The Naked Lunch, as published by Bradford Morrow, Bookseller (Santa Barbara, CA.), in 1979. Introduction by William S. Burroughs. Illustrations by K. Anders after Egon Schiele.  Letterpress printed by Patrick Reagh.

This edition was released as "324 numbered copies in wrappers, 150 numbered copies signed by the author & bound in cloth & boards, & 26 lettered copies which are hors commerce."

This copy is copy 'J' of the hors commerce copies, and is signed by William S. Burroughs, the printer, and the illustrator.  This copy is also an association copy, inscribed from William S. Burroughs to collector Bob Jackson (the former owner of Burroughs 'word hoard' known as "The Vaduz Archive", which now is housed in the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library): "for Bob Jackson / all the best / from Doctor Benway / William S. Burroughs".

This copy was acquired through Ken Lopez Books (Hadley, MA.).