"Man from Nowhere" boxed set, book and postcards (1992)

postcard recto: photo by Loomis Dean of Burroughs and Gysin in the Beat Hotel, Paris
postcard verso: information on the Here to Go Show, The Here to Go Tapes, and Man from Nowhere

postcard recto: "Two Inverted Skeletons" by William S. Burroughs

postcard verso: "Sampling and Cutting Up", a statement from Frank Rynne

postcard recto: "Black Dangers" by Brion Gysin

postcard verso: quote from William S. Burroughs on Brion Gysin

postcard recto: "Red Elegy for Brion II" by William S. Burroughs

postcard verso: quote from Brion Gysin

postcard recto: "Untitled" by Brion Gysin

postcard verso: "Dublin 1982", a statement from Joe Ambrose

postcard recto: "The Master Musicians of Jajouka [with Bachir Attar]", photographed by Cherie Nutting

postcard verso: quote on Brion Gysin from Bill Laswell

postcard recto: "Head on Tracks (Side A)" by William S. Burroughs

postcard verso: "Meet Cafe Song", adapted from William Burroughs

postcard recto: "Another Homunculus" by William S. Burroughs

postcard verso: quote on the "D-train" by Brion Gysin

postcard recto: Donald Angus' photograph of Brion Gysin at the 1001 Nights, Tangier, Morocco 1955

postcard verso: "Bedaya", an excerpt from Terry Wilson's D Train

postcard recto: "After Midnight in Marakesh" by Brion Gysin

postcard verso: quote about Brion Gysin's death by William S. Burroughs

postcard recto: Antony Balch's photograph of William S. Burroughs on rue Gît-le-Cœur, Paris

postcard verso: excerpt from The Process by Brion Gysin

postcard recto: "Yellow and Blue Awakening" by William S. Burroughs

postcard verso: excerpt from Terry Wilson's D Train

postcard recto: unattributed photograph of William S. Burroughs

postcard verso: excerpt from Here to Go by Brion Gysin

postcard recto: "Head On Tracks (Side B)" by William S. Burroughs

postcard verso: "Hassan in the City" by Joe Ambrose

Dublin, Ireland: Subliminal Books (book, postcards, boxed set), 1992.
Box: 7.625" x 5.875" x 0.625, white paper-laminated greyboard, corner taped, with pink limitation sticker from Autonomedia & Subliminal Books.
Book: 7.25" x 5.375" x 0.375", unpaginated, softcover, ISBN 0-9520217-0-6.

Postcard Bag: 7.625" x 5", zip-closing, with "Here to Go" 2" round sticker.

Postcards: fourteen 4" x 6" postcards.

Man from Nowhere: Storming the Citadels of Enlightenment with William Burroughs and Brion Gysin, by Joa Ambrose, Terry Wilson, and Frank Rynne, as released in a box set of a book and sixteen postcards by The Gap and Subliminal Books (Dublin, Ireland), with additional distribution by Autonomedia. Design by Niall Sweeney. 

The book in this set is a highly illustrated book of essays on Burroughs and Gysin, filled with quotes by Burroughs, Gysin, and a number of associates including Stanley Booth, Paul Bowles, Ira Cohen, Anne Cumming, Marianne Faithful, John Giorno, James Grauerholz, Hamri, Keith Haring, Bill Laswell, Anne Waldman, et al.  There are multiple photographs as well as artwork and manuscript reproductions throughout.

The postcards are mostly photographs of and art by William S. Burroughs, with quotes on the back of each.

This set was released for the Here to Go Show, a celebration of the work of Burroughs and Gysin, organized across three venues between September 29th and October 10th, 1992, Dublin.  The event was captured in the documentary Destroy All Rational Thought. In the archive is also one of the rare audio cassettes produced for the event, The Here to Go Tapes.

This specific copy is numbered copy 43 of 50 on the sticker on the front of the box. In conversation with publisher/organizer Frank Rynne in September 2023 in Paris, he noted there are likely many more copies of the box than just fifty – according to him Autonomedia took copies to three major American cities, and each set had its own limitation (suggesting at least 150 copies, or likely more). This specific copy is unfortunately missing two of the postcards, examples of which are however in the Roger Knoebber archive (both are of Brion Gysin paintings, one a calligraphic work, and the other a painting entitled "Marrakech").  This specific copy of the boxed set came from the collection of Lon Stacks (Detroit, Michigan, US), acquired through his estate.

Shoaf Sec. IV, No. 153 (book)
Shoaf Sec. V, No. 20 (boxed set)
Schottlaender v4.H1 (book)
Schottlaender v4.G41 (boxed set)

Book Contents:

• Introduction and acknowledgments
• William S. Burroughs: letter from August 25, 1992 on Brion Gysin
• "1. Mixing Music with Pleasure": (essay)
• unattributed photo of Brion Gysin near Fez, 1950
• unattributed photo of Gysin in New York, 1949
• John Latouche: "Taking a Chance on Love" (photograph, Faraway Farm, Connecticut, US, 1949)
• Marianne Faithfull: letter on Brion Gysin
• unattributed photo of Mick Jagger
• unattributed photo of Bill Laswell
• unattributed photo of Keith Richards
• Antony Balch: "The Captain and WSB Boarding the Yacht" (film still from The Cut Ups)
• poster of Gimme Shelter, by The Rolling Stones
• unattributed photo of Brion Gysin and Ornette Coleman
• Bill Laswell: statement on Brion Gysin
• Ira Cohen: "Where the Heart Lies" (poem and statement on Brion Gysin)
• unattributed photo of Ira Cohen and Brion Gysin, 1976
• unattributed photo of Targuisti, 1990
• unattributed photo of The Master Musicians of Joujouka (with Hamri and Brion Gysin)
• John Giorno: "Joujouka" (essay)
• unattributed photo of Mseksef, 1990
• "2. The Wolves Are Closing In": (essay)
• unattributed photo of Antony Balch, c.1971
• Antony Balch passport
• Antony Balch: "WSB with Orgasm Gun" (film still from Towers Open Fire)
• Roberto Klein: photograph of Antony Balch leaving the Middlesex Hospital with Terry Wilson
• unattributed photo of Antony Balch leaving to meet Burroughs and Gysin
• Antony Balch: "Meeting of the Virus Board" (film stills from Towers Open Fire)
• Antony Balch: film still of Brion Gysin at the Beat Hotel, from The Cut Ups
• unattributed photo of Antony Balch at a beach
• Anne Cumming [Felicity Mason]: note on Brion Gysin August 25, 1992
• "3. Right Here Write Now": (essay)
• Antony Balch: still from The Cut Ups
• unattributed photo of Keith Haring and William S. Burroughs at Tower Gallery, New York City
• Keith Haring: note on Brion Gysin, November 1986
• unattributed photos of William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin, Basel, Switzerland, 1979
• unattributed photo of Gysin painting at the Beat Hotel, Paris, 1962
• unattributed photo of Brion Gysin in London, March 1981
• performance views of Brion Gysin with Domain Poetique, Paris, 1959
• Antony Balch: "WSB San Michel" (photograph, Paris, 1962)
• unattributed photo of Brion Gysin with a Dreamachine
• unattributed photo of Ian Sommerville
• Ruby Eleanora Booth: "Stanley Booth Takes Aim" (photograph, 1991)
• Stanley Booth: recollection of Burroughs and Gysin, Spring 1970, London
• William S. Burroughs: "The Cut Up Method of Brion Gysin" (essay)
• "4. Going Going Gone": (essay)
• Ira Cohen: "bg with plaster foot" (photograph, from Cohen's "Bandaged Poet Series", One World Poetry Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands 1979)
• Anne Waldman: "Panrion Gysin" (signed poem reproduction)
• Iggy Pop: letter on Brion Gysin
• unattributed photo of Brion Gysin at the Louvre, Paris, 1977
• Brion Gysin: "Magic Mushrooms in Black and White" (calligraphic painting, 1961)
• unattributed photo of Terry Wilson at Hotel Continental, Tangier, Morocco, 1990
• unattributed photo of William S. Burroughs and Terry Wilson
• unattributed photo of Terry Wilson and Brion Gysin at the B2 Gallery, London, England, 1982
• unattributed photo of Iggy Pop and Brion Gysin
• Brion Gysin: letter to Targuisti on the disposition of his ashes
• Paul Bowles: letter to Brion Gysin, August 6, 1986
• "5. Greasing the Greaser": (essay)
• Lawrence Lacina: photo of Brion Gysin at the summit of Alamut, 22 August 1973
• unattributed photos of Brion Gysin in Algiers, 1956
• Antony Balch: film still og Burroughs from Guerrilla Conditions
• unattributed photo of Burroughs on Grand St, New York City
• Joe Ambrose: photo of Danny Sugerman and Frank Rynne
• Ira Cohen: photo of Brion Gysin at the Louvre with a sculpture of Sekhmet
• William S. Burroughs: "Nagual Art" (essay, January 1989)
• Herbert List: photo of Brion Gysin and Boomba near Tangier, Morocco, 1955
• unattributed photo of Burroughs in sunglasses
• Antony Balch: storyboards for the film of Naked Lunch
• Terry Wilson: "Haut Brion" (essay, 1986)
• unattributed photo of Terry Wilson and Philippe Baumont at John Calder's Final Academy party, London, 1982
• Terry Wilson: "The Universe in Other Words" (essay on Gysin, 1992)
• Hamri: on Brion Gysin (essay, August 1992)
• "6. The Honorary Guest": (essay)
• unattributed photo of Brion Gysin painting at the Beat Hotel, Paris, 1963
• Felicity Mason: "Brion Gysin in Peggy Guggenheim's Garden in Venice" (photograph)
• Frank Rynne: "Joe Ambrose, Terry Wilson, and Trolley Bus" (photograph)
• unattributed photo of Brion Gysin in Algiers, 1956
• unattributed photo of Brion Gysin and Ramuntcho Matta at The Final Academy
• Brion Gysin: "Calligraphy for Terry" (drawing, 1963)
• unattributed photo of Burroughs smiling
• unattributed photo of Ian Sommerville and Michael Portman, Tangier, Morocco, 1964
• Antony Balch: photo of William S. Burroughs taking a fix
• unattributed photo of William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin in Basel, Switzerland, 1979
• unattributed photo of William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin "checking out some poisonous cacti", 1983
• unattributed photo of Burroughs reading a newspaper
• unattributed photo of William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin at Gysin's Tower Gallery exhibition, New York City
• unattributed photo of Brion Gysin and James Kennedy McCann at Gysin's Calligraffiti of Fire exhibition, Paris, 1985
• unattributed photo of Brion Gysin painting in the Beat Hotel
• unattributed photo of a young Gysin
• James Grauerholz: "Excerpts from the Essay 'On Burroughs' Art'"
• William S. Burroughs: "Brion Gysin's Painting" (essay
• Brion Gysin: photo of WSB on rue Gît-leCœur, Paris, 1972
• Trolley Bus: photo of Joe Ambrose, Terry Wilson, and Frank Rynne