Uncorrected Proof of the Grove Press "Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader" (1998)

New York City: Grove Press (book, proof, anthology, primary), 1998.
9" x 6" x 1.25", 533 pages, softcover, uncorrected proof.

The uncorrected proof for Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader, as published by Grove Press (New York City) in 1998. Edited by Ira Silverberg and James Grauerholz with an introduction by Ann Douglas. Cover image by Kate Simon.  

The contents somewhat differ in the uncorrected proof [and, of course, no CD comes with it]. 

Shoaf I.92a.

Contents: 

• Ira Silverberg: Editor's Preface
• Ann Douglas: "The Achievement of William S. Burroughs" [difference in title]
• Acknowledgments [in the final book: "Editor's Note"]
• The Name Is Burroughs:
• James Grauerholz: "The Name Is Burroughs (1914–44)"
• William S. Burroughs:
• from The Adding Machine: "The Name Is Burroughs" (excerpt, 1973)
• "Personal Magnetism" (1929)
• "Twilight's Last Gleamings" (with Kells Elvins, 1938)
• "And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks" (excerpt, with Jack Kerouac, 1945)
• A Hard-Boiled Reporter:
• James Grauerholz: "A Hard-Boiled Reporter (1945–53)" 
• William S. Burroughs:
• from Junky:
• "Prologue" (1952)
• "Excerpts" (1950–52)
• from Queer:
• "Excerpts" (1951–52)
• "Introduction" (excerpts, 1985)
• from The Yagé Letters:
• "Excerpts" (1953)
• "Roosevelt After Inauguration" (May 1953)
• Interzone:
• James Grauerholz: "Interzone (1954–59)"
• William S. Burroughs:
• from Interzone (1988 anthology):
• "International Zone" (1955)
• "Lee's Journals" (excerpts, 1955)
• "Spare Ass Annie" (1955)
• "Ginsberg Notes" (excerpts, 1955)
• "WORD" (excerpts, 1957–58)
• from Naked Lunch (1955–59):
• "I Can Feel the Heat Closing In"
• "The Black Meat"
• "Hospital" (excerpts)
• "The Market" (excerpts)
• "And now the Prophet's Hour..." (excerpts from "Islam, Inc.")
• "The Talking Asshole" (excerpt from "Ordinary Men and Women")
•  "Atrophied Preface/Wouldn't You" [just "Atrophied Preface" noted in the final book] 
• The Cut-Ups (1960–67):
• James Grauerholz: "The Cut-Ups (1959–67)"
• William S. Burroughs:
• from The Soft Machine (1957–60):
• "Dead on Arrival"
• "Case of the Celluloid Kali"
• "The Mayan Caper"
• "Where You Belong"
• "Uranian Willy"
• from The Ticket That Exploded (1957–61):
• "'see the action, B.J.?'"
• "do you love me?"
• "operation rewrite"
• "call the old doctor twice?"
• "the invisible generation"
• from Nova Express (1961–63):
• "Last Words"
• "Prisoners, Come Out"
• "Pry Yourself Loose and Listen"
• "So Pack Your Ermines"
• "Shift Coordinate Points"
• "Coordinate Points"
• "Plan Drug Addiction" [not in the final book]
• "Short Count"
• "Twilight's Last Gleaming"
• "Pay Color"
• "Pay Off the Marks?"
• "Clom Fliday"
• Inspector Lee: Nova Heat:
• James Grauerholz: "Inspector Lee: Nova Heat (1964–84)"
• William S. Burroughs:
• from The Burroughs File:
• "Ancient Face Gone Out" (1963)
• "The Beginning Is Also the End (i/v with Mr. Martin)" (1963)
• "Who Is the Third That Walks Beside You" (1964)
• "The Last Post Danger Ahead" (1964)
• "Last Awning Flaps on the Pier" (1964)
• "St. Louis Return" (1965)
• from The Third Mind (with Brion Gysin):
• "The Exterminator" (1962–65)
• "Fold-Ins" (1964) [not included in the final book]
• "Notes on These Pages" (1964)
• "Technical Deposition of the Virus Power" (1965)
• "In Present Time" (1965)
• "'now try this take a walk" [removed for the final book]
• from The Job:
• "(The American Non-Dream)" (1969)
• "Institute of Advanced Sexual Studies: Academy Bulletin No. 18" (1969)
• "Electronic Revolution" (1970–71)
• Control:
• William S. Burroughs:
• from The Adding Machine:
• "It Is Necessary to Travel..." (1969)
• "Remembering Jack Kerouac" (1969)
• from The Burroughs File: "The Bay of Pigs" (1972)
• from Roosevelt After Inauguration and Other Atrocities:
• "When Did I Stop Wanting to Be President?" (1975)
• "Roosevelt After Inauguration: A New Introduction" (1975)
• from The Adding Machine:
• "A Word to the Wise Guy" (1975)
• "The Limits of Control" (1975)
• "Les Voleurs" (1976)
• "Immortality (incl. Mr. Rich Parts)" (1976)
• "The Johnson Family" (1977)
• Queer Utopia:
• James Grauerholz: "Queer Utopia (1968–73)"
• William S. Burroughs:
• from The Wild Boys (1968–69):
• "And Bury the Bread Deep in a Sty" 
• "The Penny Arcade Peep Show"
• "'Mother and I Would Like to Know'"
• "The Wild Boys Smile"
• from Exterminator!:
• "'Exterminator!'" (1966)
• "The Discipline of DE" (1970)
• "'What Washington? What Orders?'" (1972)
• "From Here to Eternity" (1972)
• "Seeing Red" (1972)
• "The 'Priest' They Called Him" (1967)
• "Cold Lost Marbles" (1972)
• The Red Night Trilogy:
• James Grauerholz: "The Red Night Trilogy (1973–87)"
• William S. Burroughs:
• from Cities of the Red Night (1974–80):
• "Fore!"
• "Invocation"
• "Politics Here Is Death"
• "Harbor Point"
• "The Private Asshole"
• "Lettre de Marque"
• "Port Roger"
• "Cities of the Red Night"
• "(from __________)"
• "Return to Port Roger"
• from The Place of Dead Roads:
• "Shoot-Out in Boulder"
• "'For three days Kim had camped on the mesa top...'"
• "'Kim has never doubted the possibility of an afterlife...'"
• "'Kim got off the stage at Cottonwood Junction'"
• "'Look at this picture from Tom's collection...'"
• "'Kim recruits a band of flamboyant...'"
• "'Killed in the Manhattan Shoot-Out... April 3, 1984...'"
• "'William Seward Hall...'"
• "'Kim sees his life as a legend...'"
• "'Guy Graywood arrived from New York...'"
• "'Kim spent three years in Paris...'"
• "'The guide traces the area on the map...'"
• "'So in what guise shall he return to the New World...'"
• "'Kim is heading north for Boulder...'"
• from The Western Lands:
• "'The old writer lived in a boxcar by the river...'"
• "'Joe the Dead lowered the rifle...'"
• "'Neferti is eating breakfast...'"
• "The Door Dog is a limited artifact...'"
• "'Consider the One God Universe...'"
• "'The Road to the Western Lands...'"
• "'Neferti is dropping his Ego, his Me...'"
• "'June 6, 1985. Friday. I am in Iran someplace...'"
• "'In present-day Egypt...'"
• "'The Land of the Dead: a long street with trees...'"
• "The Wishing Machine"
• "'It was a hectic, portentous time in Paris, in 1959...'"
• Late Work:
• James Grauerholz: "Late Work (1984–97)"
• William S. Burroughs:
• from The Cat Inside (1982–86)
• from My Education: A Book of Dreams (1986–94)
• James Grauerholz: "Epilogue (1914–97)"
• Appendix A: Composition and Publication History (chart) [removed for the final book]
• Appendix B: Bibliography