"Pantopon Rose" Broadside (1995)

Charleston, West Virginia, US: Parchment Gallery Graphics, Department of Humanities, University of Charleston (broadside, print, art, signed, numbered), 1995.
Envelope: 12" x 9", top loading, black paper, printed on recto with white ink.
Folder: 8.5" x 11", once-folded heavy tan Bristol paper with deckled edge. printed with red ink on front and back, containing print, colophon, and Acadamé sketching paper cover sheet.
Print: 8.375" x 10.75", tan Bristol paper, red ink, right edge deckled and other edges trimmed, printed recto only, numbered and signed by the author in pencil.

Pantopon Rose by William S. Burroughs, as issued as a serigraph broadside by Parchment Gallery Graphics, the Department of Humanities, the University of Charleston (Charleston, West Virginia, US) in 1995 in an edition of sixty copies, all numbered and signed in pencil by William S. Burroughs. This was pulled by Perfect Prints (Charleston, West Virginia, US), and its issue was coordinated by William Plumley.

As noted on the colophon: "The lyrics for the song 'Pantopon Rose,' written in January 1995, are based on a real character from uptown NYC (103 St.) during the late 1940's. She appears in several of Burroughs' books, including The Naked Lunch, and was a whore who occasionally had some Pantopon to sell."

This copy is #46 of 60 copies, numbered and signed in pencil by William S. Burroughs.  This copy was formerly in the collection of Mike Skau, English professor at University of Nebraska, and was acquired through Jeffrey Weinberg of Water Row Books (Massachusetts, US). This includes the original black envelope in which it was issued.