Invisible Insurrection of a Million Minds: A Trocchi Reader

Edinburgh, Scotland: Polygon (book, 2nd printing), 1996.

8.5" x 5.5" x 0.75", 228 pages, softcover, ISBN 0-7486-6108-5.

Invisible Insurrection of a Million Minds, a compilation of works by Alexander Trocchi, edited by Andrew M. Scott, and published by Paragon (Edinburgh, Scotland) in a second printing in 1996.

At pages 207-209 is a letter from Alexander Trocchi to fellow Sigma Project member William S. Burroughs, dated 12 October 1963.

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

Not in Shoaf.
Not in Schottlaender (v4, v5)

Contents: 

• Andrew M. Scott: introduction 
• Part One:
• "Pages of an Autobiography"
• "The Earthbound"
• "Fragments from a Diary of a Man Found Gassed in a Glasgow Slum"
• "Tapeworm"
• "Peter Pierce"
• Part Two:
• "Letter to Jack"
• "A Meeting"
• "The Rum and the Pelican"
• "Eileen Lanelly"
• "The Holy Man"
• "Foreword to Vol. 5 of Frank Harris' Memoirs"
• "Letter to Samuel Beckett"
• "Extract from Young Adam"
• Part Three:
• "A Being of Distances"
• "Wolfie"
• "Letter to TErry Southern"
• "Extract from Cain's Book: 'Jody'"
• "A Note on George Orwell"
• Part Four:
• "The Invisible Insurrection of a Million Minds"
• "Sigma: A Tactical Blueprint"
• "Letters to Hugh MacDiarmid"
• "Letter to William S. Burroughs"
• "The Junkie: Menace or Scapegoat?"
• "Notes from a Diary of a Cure, 1965"
• "How I Came to Want to Get Off"
• "Uncle Hamlet, Quite Gone into Middle Age..."
• Acknowledgments and Sources
• A Trocchi Bibliography