Iain Sinclair's "The Face on the Fork: A William Burroughs Triptych" (2012)

Binley Woods, England: Beat Scene Press (chapbook, memoir), 2012.
8.25" x 5", 48 pages, chapbook, signed and numbered.

The Face on the Fork: A William Burroughs Triptych by Iain Sinclair, as published in a signed and numbered chapbook by Beat Scene Press (Binley Woods, England) in 2012. 125 numbered and signed copies issued. Number 33 in the Beat Scene Press Pocket Book Series.

This consists of memoirs (“Dublin.Winter.1962”, “Gozo Winter 1967”, and “Lawrence Kansas Winter 1995), a film script prepared for WDR (TV, Cologne, 1967), and Burroughs’ text for the periodical Albatross (which only exists in a small number of proof copies). [Burroughs’ text was later published in Icarus, issue 46, May 1965, and in this chapbook, and later by Tangerine Press in 2023 as William S. Burroughs’ The Frisco Kid: He Never Returns.]

This copy is number 100 of 125.

Schottlaender v4.G79.

Contents:

• Iain Sinclair: "Dublin.Winter.1962" (memoir)
• Iain Sinclair: "Gozo Winter 1967" (memoir)
• Iain Sinclair: "The Face on the Fork" (script)
• William S. Burroughs: "The Albatross Text" (also known as "Short Piece", prose)
• unstated: photograph of Iain Sinclair, William S. Burroughs, and Paul Quinn, at Burroughs' home, Lawrence, Kansas, Winter, 1995
• Iain Sinclair: "Lawrence Kansas Winter 1995"