Signed Uncorrected Proof of "Place of Dead Roads" (1983)

New York City: Holt, Rinehart and Winston (book, proof), 1983.
8.375" x 5.375" x 075", 307 hand-numbered pages, wraps, uncorrected proof.

The Place of Dead Roads by William S. Burroughs as released as an uncorrected proof by Holt, Rinehart and Winston (New York City) c.1983. The rear cover notes that this was printed by Crane Duplicating Service (Barnstable, Massachusetts, US).

This copy was acquired from the estate of collector Lon Stacks, and is signed by William S. Burroughs to "Jon". 

Shoaf I.60.c.
Not in Schottlander.

Contents:

• Brief Description
• William S. Burroughs: The Place of Dead Roads:
• preface
• I. Stranger Who Was Passing:
• "Shoot-out in Boulder"
• "For three days Kim had camped on the mesa top..."
• "Kim is a slimy, morbid youth..."
• "The Baron Says These Things"
• "Kim considers these imaginary space trips to other worlds..."
• "No mistaking that gray shadow..."
• "Kim woke up with the impression of a wide, white grin..."
• "Train whistle...Clickety clickety clack..."
• "Kim got off the stage at Cottonwood Junction..."
• "Guns Gunsmithing"
• "The Family has set up a number of posts..."
• II. His Father's Picture:
• "Cloning was in an experimental stage..."
• "Kim sees his life as a legend..."
• "Saint Louis Return..."
• "In the kitchen they are measuring out whiffs..."
• "Colonel Sutton-Smith was a well-to-do amateur archaeologist..."
• "Graywood meets them at the station..."
• "NYC circa 1910..."
• "'Let's go up to the Metropole and suck some bubbly...'"
• III. Quién Es?:
• "Kim's father had told him something about painting..."
• "It is time for Kim's Arab assignment..."
• "'I am Captain Zomba... Hotel Continental.'"
• "Kim was outside of time..."
• "Military operations of one kind or another were always in progress..."
• "Kim frequently placed himself in remote jungle outposts..."
• "Kim Christmas, the perfect intelligence agent..."
• "As Kim moves back in time he leaves a wake of disaster behind him..."
• "So in what guise shell he return to the New World..."
• "Kim is heading north for Boulder..."