"William S. Burroughs / Cut" (2013)

Köln, Germany: Buchhandlung Walther König (book, anthology, exhibition catalog), 2013.
9.5" x 6.625" x 0.5", 192 pages, softcover, ISBN 978-3-86335-229-5.

William S. Burroughs / Cut, an exhibition catalog and anthology edited by Axel Heil and Ian MacFadyen, published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König (Köln, Germany) in 2013. This is volume two of Axel Heil's "the future of the past" series, and was produced "on the occasions of" the exhibitions The Name Is Burroughs – Expanded Media (at ZKM Museum for Contemporary Art in Karlsruhe, Germany, 24 March 2012 – 12 August 2012) and William S. Burroughs – Retrospektive (Deichtorhallen Hamburg/Sammlung Falckenberg, 16 March 2023 – 18 August 2013).

Graphic Design by fluid ultd, Alex Heil, and Christian Ertel. Editor-in-Chief was Margrit Brehm. Translations by Roger Leverdier, Zoë Claire Miller, Anja Welle, and Stan Jones. Copy-editing by Udo Breger, Margrit Brehm, and Ian MacFadyen. Image-editing by Christian Ertel.

This book is filled with images, art, and documents about William S. Burroughs. It also contains essays Axel Heil and by Ian MacFadyen, and an interview with William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Jean Pierre Faye, and Alain Paccadis by Jean-Jacques Lebel. The book also contains a chronology and a selected bibliography of Burroughs.

This specific copy, which is the English-language edition, was acquired during a trip to Köln in 2013, where it was purchased directly from Buchhandlung Walther König.

wrapper image, German-language edition

cover image, German-language edition

In the archive I additionally have a copy of the German-language edition, which was also purchased directly from Buchhandlung Walther König in 2013. This edition has a wrapper over the cover, and the wrapper and the cover have different images, both different from that used on the English edition (which has no wrapper).
ISBN 978-3-86335-228-8.

Schottlaender v4.H25. 

Selected Contents (English edition titles): 

• William S. Burroughs: 
• "Self-Portrait, Tanger 1961" (photograph)
• "Untitled, 1953-55" (photocollage)
• "Spermatozoa Color II, 1987" (painting)
• "Self-Portrait, c.1961" (photograph)
• "The Prison Scribe, c.1990" (painting/collage)
• "Untitled (Stylized Dance...), n.d." (painting)
• "Dead Ringers, 1990" (painting)
• "Death by Lethal Injection, 1990" (painting)
• "The Cat Inside, 1988" (painting)
• "The Golden Boat, 1982" (collage/art)
• "Untitled (Terry Wilson outside St. George's Art Gallery, Duke Street St. James, London, early '70s)" (photograph)
• "letter to Brion Gysin, from Tanger to Paris, May 25, 1964" (typescript/letter)
• "Self-Portrait, c.1961" (photograph)
• "The Golden Word, 1988" (painting)
• "Self-Portrait, c.1961" photograph)
• "Untitled, 1988" (painting)
• "Birdie Does the Watching, c.1964" (photograph from collage)
• "Untitled, c.1954" (photo-collage)
• "Untitled, c.1955" (photo-collages)
• "Untitled, 1953-55" (photo-collage)
• "Self-Portrait, 1959" (drawing)
• "Untitled, 1959" (paintings)
• "Untitled (Collage on the rug, London), 1972" (photographs)
• "Untitled ('What was, what isn't', 8 Duke Street, St. James's, London), 1972" (photographs)
• "This Is the Time of the Assassins, 1988" (painting)
• "Photo Collage and Lemur Pictures, 1989" (painting/collage)
• "Unfinished??, Dec 12, 1987" (painting)
• "Self-Portrait, 1987" (painting)
• "Untitled, c.1988" (painting)
• "The Ripper Strikes Again: Note Two Bobbies in Upper Left of Picture, c.1990" (painting/collage)
• "Crazy Man, c.1989" (painting)
• "Spoor of the Fungus on a Whispering South Wind, 1993" (painting)
• William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin: 
• "Operation 23, Cut-up (c.1962)" (unpublished manuscript)
• "Untitled (Doctor Zeit M.D.), c.1965" (collage for The Third Mind)
• "o.T. (W. R. Hearst Jr.), c.1965" (collage)
• "Untitled (Plan Drug Addiction), c.1965" (collage)
• "The Big Survey, c.1965" (collage)
• page from Black Scrapbook, 1963-64
• William S. Burroughs and John Giorno: "The Gun's Got Blood in Its Hole, 1991" (painting)
• William S. Burroughs and Keith Haring: "Untitled (4 sheets from the portfolio Apocalypse), 1988" (lithographs)
• William S. Burroughs and George Condo: "What the Hit Man Missed, Sept 16, 1992" (painting)
• Brion Gysin: 
• "Désert, 1958" (painting)
• "Electronic Revolution (lithographs/serigraphs)
• "Naked Lunch (Back Through Lake Charles), c.1963" (painting)
• Dreamachine, installation view at ZKM Karlsruhe, 2012
• Axel Heil: "Slash with a Knife" (essay)
• Ian MacFadyen: "Codename Burroughs" (essay)
• Jean-Jacques Lebel, William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Jean Pierre Faye, and Alain Paccadis: "Cut In – Cut Out" (interview, Paris 1982)
• Allen Ginsberg: 
• "William S. Burroughs at typewriter editing... (New York, 1953)" (photograph)
• "Bill Burroughs and Jack Kerouac Locked for a Second in Mortal Combat 206 East 7th Street apartment (New York, 1953)" (photograph)
• Guy Debord: 
• Mémoires (1957-58, collage)
• The Naked City (1957, chiché print)
• Harold Chapman: 
• "Ian Sommerville, Montparnasse, Paris, 1960" (photograph)
• "Brion Gysin in Coat with Two People (n.d.)" (photograph)
• "Mme Rachou in front of the Beat Hotel, Paris, c.1960" (photograph)
• "Peter Orlovsky and Allen Ginsberg, Beat Hotel, Paris, December 1957" (photograph)
• "William S. Burroughs with his Wire Trays for Manuscripts on the Wall, Beat Hotel Paris 1961" (photograph)
• "Maurice Girodias and W. S. Burroughs, Paris 1959" (photograph)
• László Moholy-Nagy: The Shooting Gallery (1925/1973) (photograph)
• André Morain: Niki de St. Phalle, Impasse Ronsin (1958) (photograph)
• Philip Heying: "William Burroughs and his Studio Garage, 1987" (photograph)
• Robert Rauschenberg: 
• "American Pewter with Burroughs III, 1981" (photo-lithograph)
• "American Pewter with Burroughs I, 1981" (photo-lithograph)
• Gordon Matta-Clark: "Conical Intersect, Paris 1975" (photograph)
• Udo Breger: 
• "William S. Burroughs' Stencils, Lawrence, Kansas, 2010" (c-type print)
• "WSB and John Giorno, 1978" (photograph)
• "Out of RE/SEARCH #4/5, San Francisco 1982" (c-type print)
• "Brion Gysin and Jürgen Ploog, Basel 1981" (c-type print)
• "Portrait Ian Sommerville, London 1973" (photograph)
• "Brion Gysin, Paris, Feb. 8 1985" (photograph)
• "Targuisti, one of Brion Gysin's 'Soldiers', Café de Paris, Tanger, January 1987" (photograph)
• "Ira Cohen in Burroughs' Room, Alexander Hotel, Amsterdam 1979" (photograph)
• "Dalmeny Court, 8 Duke Street, London, 2009" (photograph)
• "The Bunker (Sleeping Quarter), 1981" (photograph)
• "Burroughs listening to a radio reading of his own work, Bunker, New York, January 1980" (photograph)
• "WSB with Crazy Man, Lawrence, Kansas, February 1989" (contact sheet)
• "Target Practice: George Kaull Shooting, Lawrence, Kansas, Spring 1992" (photograph)
• "William S. Burroughs and James Grauerholz, Lawrence, Kansas, April 23, 1992" (photograph)
• "James Grauerholz in the movie Words of Advice by Lars Movin, 2010" (photograph)
• "Target Practice, WSB Shooting, Lawrence, Kansas, February 4, 1989" (photograph)
• Jean-Michel Basquiat: "6 Months, 1987" (painting)
• Brian Beresford: "William S. Burroughs, London, October 1982 [sic?]" (photograph)
• Steve Linsenmayer: "William S. Burroughs at Merlyn's Night Club, Madison, Wisconsin, 1981" (photograph)
• Terry O'Neill: "David Bowie and William Burroughs, portrait for Rolling Stone, Issue 155, February 1974" (photograph)
• Rolf-Gunter Dienst: "William S. Burroughs – Terminator, 1962" (art)
• Barry Miles: "Untitled (Brion Gysin working on his archives with William S. Burroughs), Duke Street, London, 1972" (photograph)
• Brian Beresford: "Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs, London, October 1982" (photograph)
• Uwe Larsen: "Raumfleisch, 1967" (mixed media)
• Erró: "The King, 1959" (painting)
• Carl Michael von Hausswolff: "Alamout, 1986" (photograph)
• François Lagarde: "The Three Minds, 1978" (photographs)
• Lou Stoumen, "Sunrise, The New York Times Building, 1940" (photograph)
• Genesis Breyer P-Orridge:
• "Love With Horns, 2011" (collage)
• "Being Any Gender Is A Drag, 2011" (collage)
• "Brion, 1986" (photocopy and polaroid)
• Walter Dahn: "Pan, 1984" (drawing)
• Charles Gatewood: 
• "William S. Burroughs Solo-Auditing with the E-Meter Used by Scientology, London, 1972" (photograph)
• "Jimmy Page and William S. Burroughs, 1975" (photograph)
• Antony Balch: Towers Open Fire (film still)
• Howard Brookner: "Burroughs' hands on a portrait of Ian Sommerville" (film stills)
• Ulrich Hillebrand: "Untitled (WSB with Dreamachine), 1979" (photograph)
• Françoise Janicot: "John Giorno, 1983" (photograph)
• Marcia Resnick: "W. S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Peter Orlovsky, and Gregory Corso, 1980" (photograph)
• Mike Kelley: "All or Nothing, 1994" (painting)
• Jill Krementz: "William S. Burroughs, Jean Genet and Allen Ginsberg, Chicago 1968" (photograph)
• Ph Waller: "Mur de Paris, Montreuil, c.1950" (photograph)
• Chas. Juehne: "The Panorama of St. Louis, 1894" (photograph)
• Michael Portman: "In the Garden of the Hôtel Villa Muniria, Tanger, July 1961"
• Bobby Grossman: "William S. Burroughs with Andy Warhol in the Factory, New York, 1980" (photograph)
• Kate Simon: "William S. Burroughs' 70th Birthday Party, New York, 1984" (photograph)
• Elisabeth Henrichs: "Black Rider production" (photograph)
• Hank O'Neal: "Allen Ginsberg and W. S. Burroughs, New York, February 7, 1984" (photograph)
  
• cover images of:
• Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems, 1956, US 1st edition
• Jack Kerouac, On the Road, 1957, US 1st edition
• William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, 1962, US 1st edition 
• William S. Burroughs, The Naked Lunch, 1968, UK 1st edition
• William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Sinclair Beiles and Gregory Corso, Minutes to Go, 1960, 1st edition, Paris
• William S. Burroughs, The Wild Boys, 1971, US 1st edition
• William S. Burroughs, The Wild Boys, 1972, UK 1st edition
• William S. Burroughs, The Wild Boys, 1971, US 1st paperback edition
• William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin, The Third Mind, 1982, US 1st paperback edition
• William S. Burroughs, Ali's Smile, 1971, UK 1st edition
• William S. Burroughs, The Place of Dead Roads, 1987, UK 1st edition
• William S. Burroughs, The Ticket That Exploded, 1962, 1st edition, Paris
• William S. Burroughs, Electronic Revolution, 1971, UK 1st paperback edition 
• William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin, The Exterminator, 1967, US 2nd edition
• William S. Burroughs, Cities of the Red Night, 1981, US 1st edition
• William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin, The Third Mind, US 1st paperback edition
• William S. Burroughs, The Place of Dead Roads, 1985, US 1st edition
• Weegee, Naked City, 1945, US 1st edition
• William S. Burroughs (as "Willy Lee"), Roosevelt After Inauguration, 1964, 1st ed
• Pat Ryan, Chicago Trial Testimony, 1975 
• reproductions of:
• Chuck Workman, The Source: The Story of the Beats and the Beat Generation, 1999, postcard for the film
• "William Burroughs décroche", Libération, 4 August 1997 (with portrait by Robert Mapplethorpe)
• William S. Burroughs and Malcolm McNeill, "The Unspeakable Mr. Hart", Cyclops, September 1970
• William S. Burroughs, The Nova Convention program, New York, 1978
• Burroughs playing the President of the United States in David Zane Mairowitz's Flash Gordon and the Angels, Open Space Theatre, London, 1971
• poster from Internationale Situationniste, The Destruction of RSG-6, Odense 1963
• Brion Gysin's Stanley blade
• "Tangier, le Port", mid-50s postcard
• stills from David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch, signed by Burroughs
• William S. Burroughs, "The Dead Child", Evergreen Review, Issue 49, December 1971
• William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch prospectus/brochure, 20 November 1962, Grove Press, New York
• exhibition card for Charles Gatewood's Greatest Hits, Robert Tat Gallery, 8 September – 26 November 2011
• Magazin UFO poster 1972 by Udo Breger
• Andy Warhol, from "The Nation's Nightmare", The New York Times, 1951
• Opus International cover, Issue 4, Paris 1967
• "William S. Burroughs in the Columbian Jungle in 1953 on the Quest for Yage" (photograph)
• installation view of The Name Is Burroughs – Expanded Media at ZKM (photo by Tobias Wootton)
• handwritten postcard of Billy the Kid from William S. Burroughs to Louis Cartwright, 1978
• image of a fossil salamander
• photograph of Lewis Marker, Mexico City 1951/1952
• image of an AP copy of Allen Ginsberg photograph "Writers William S. Burroughs, left, and Jack Kerouac converse in poet Allen Ginsberg's New York apartment in 1953"
• police photographs of the death of Joan Vollmer Burroughs
• photo of "William S. Burroughs in the Columbian Jungle (... on the Quest for Yage), 1953"
• postcard image of Tangier from the 1950s
• Frank Zappa's The Talking Asshole, Safe Records 1981