March 9, 2006 PBA Galleries Catalogue

San Francisco, California, US: PBA [Pacific Book Auction] Galleries (book catalogue), 2006.
9.25" x 6.75" x 0.375", 140 pages, 437 lots, softcover.

The catalogue for the March 9, 2006 auction of The Edwin Blair Collection of Beat Literature plus Modern Literature: Sale 327 held at PBA Galleries (San Francisco, California, US). Section I is the Edwin Blair Collection, lots 1-327, and Section II is Modern Literature, lots 328-437.

This catalogue contains over fifty Burroughs-related lots. Of these are a number of rare and interesting items, including:

• Prints by "Gypsy" Lou Webb, Loujon Press publisher, out of an edition of 100, which incorporate an image of William S. Burroughs [lot 43]
• "W.S. Burroughs at home in Kansas," a painting of William S. Burroughs by Gregory Corso [lot 51]
• One of the 300 hardcover copies of The Burroughs File [lot 56]
• #88 of the 300 limited signed & numbered, slipcased copies of Cities of the Red Night [lot 57]
• One of the 450 Blackmoor Head Press copies of Electronic Revolution, signed by publisher Henri Chopin [lot 61]
• Eric Mottram's copy of Gnaoua [lot 63]
• "Goat God out of Site," a 10-page typescript by William S. Burroughs, published in Oui, July [sic, August] 1973 [lot 64]
• A signed copy of the Olympia Press Junkie [lot 66]
• "The Mayan Caper," a 10-page typescript chapter from The Soft Machine, signed and dated by Burroughs in Tangier in 1964 [lot 68]
• A signed first printing in cover of the Olympia Press The Naked Lunch [lot 72]
• #87 of the 300 limited signed & numbered, slipcased copies of The Place of Dead Roads, in the original publisher's box [lot 75]
• A copy of the "Valentine's Day Reading" program, February 14, 1965 [lot 84]
• #47 of the 50 hardcover copies of Alan Ansen's William Burroughs: An Essay, signed by the author [lot 86]
• Allen Ginsberg's copy of L'Internationale Hallucinex [lot 170; this same item is in my archive]
• An original print of the famous (and only) image of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs together (with Hal Chase), at Columbia University in 1945 [lot 295]

This copy of the catalogue came from Sore Dove Press publisher Soheyl Dahi.

A second copy of the catalogue is also in the archive, acquired from Jeffrey Weinberg at Water Row Books, and it contains his marginalia.