Calder Softcover Edition of "The Place of Dead Roads" (1984)

London, England: John Calder (book, primary), 1984.
9" x 6" x 0.875", 306 pages, softcover, ISBN 0-7175-4032-3, "CB 410".

The Place of Dead Roads by William S. Burroughs as published as a softcover edition by John Calder (London, England) in 1984. Released simultaneously with a hardcover edition. Cover. photo, which is clipped in this rather generic edition, was supplied by the Colorado State Historical Society Library. Rear cover photograph of Burroughs is by Jerry Bauer. Book design by Lucy Albanese. 

Shoaf II.60e.
Schottlaender v4.A56.B (for both the hardcover and softcover).

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..."