Limited Edition of "The Place of Dead Roads" (1984)

New York City: Holt Rinehart & Winston (book, limited, signed, slipcased), 1984.
book: 9.25" x 6.25" x 1.125", 306 pages, hardcover without dust jacket as issued, signed, numbered and slipcased, ISBN 0-03-070416-2.
slipcase: 9.75" x 6.5" x 1.375", cloth-covered.
shipping carton: 12.75" x 7" x 1.5"

The Place of Dead Roads by William S. Burroughs as published in a limited, 300-copy slipcased 1st edition by Holt Rinehart & Winston (New York City) in 1984. Each copy in this edition is signed and numbered by William S. Burroughs.

The copy shown is #294/300, and still retains its plastic wrap on the slipcase and the carton in which it was shipped.

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Contents:

• 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..."