First (variant) Edition of "So Who Owns Death TV?" (1967)

 

San Francisco, California, US: Beach Books (book, chapbook), 1967.
5.625" x 8.25", 12 pages, stapled wraps.

So Who Owns Death TV? by William S. Burroughs, Claude Pélieu, and Carl Weissner, as published in a first variant edition by Mary Beach's imprint Beach Books (San Francisco, California, US), and was distributed by City Lights Books in 1967. This was printed by Charles Plymell in a run of about 200 copies, with silver ink on black paper. There is also a white paper edition of this first edition (300 copies, not pictured).  This first edition lacks a cover price, and does not have the contributions by Jean-Jacques Lebel, Liam O'Gallagher, and the photo of Claude Pélieu.

Burroughs' contribution, which spans three pages, begins with "A boy as quoted in The Desperate Years assembled by James D. Horan...", and includes a three-column section.

Maynard & Miles A13a.

Shoaf I.13a.

Schottlaender v4.A17.A.2.

Contents: 

• Claude Pélieu: "Onan City 19 Nueva Chicago: Objective Galactic Time Demolition Plan 23" (cut-up prose)
• Carl Weissner: "So Who Owns Death TV?" (prose)
• William S. Burroughs: "A boy as quoted in The Desperate Years assembled by James D. Horan..." (cut-up prose)