Uncorrected Proof of the Seaver Edition of "The Adding Machine: Collected Essays" (1985)

New York City: Seaver Books and Henry Holt and Company (book, proof), 1985.
8.5" x 5.5" x 0.5", 201 pages, softcover.

The uncorrected proof of William S. Burroughs' The Adding Machine: Collected Essays, as created for Seaver Books (New York City) in 1985. The final book was published in the United States in 1986 as The Adding Machine: Selected Essays, and included "Bugger the Queen", an essay that was appended after this proof. The copyright page for this proof is taken from the 1985 Calder Books edition (England).

Not in Shoaf.
Not in Schottlaender.

Contents: 

• "The Name Is Burroughs"
• "My Own Business"
• "Les Voleurs"
• "Beauty and the Bestseller"
• "A Word to the Wise Guy"
• "Technology of Writing"
• "Creative Reading"
• "Ten Years and a Billion Dollars"
• "It Belongs to the Cucumbers"
• "The Fall of Art"
• "Hemingway"
• "The Great Gatsby"
• "The Johnson Family"
• "Civilian Defence"
• "Sexual Conditioning"
• "On Freud and the Unconscious"
• "On Coincidence"
• "Paris Please Stay the Same"
• "God's Own Medicine"
• "The Last Junky"
• "The Limits of Control"
• "The Hundred Year Plan"
• "Women: A Biological Mistake"
• "Immortality"
• "It Is Necessary to Travel..."
• "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse"
• "The Great Glut"
• "Pop and the Heroids"
• "Mind War"
• "In the Interests of National Security"
• "Notes from Class Transcript"
• "Who Did What Where and When?"
• "An Epitaph"
• "My Experiences with Wilhelm Reich's Orgone Box"
• "How You Stop Smoking"
• "The Maugham Curse"
• "Remembering Jack Kerouac"
• "Beckett and Proust"
• "Graham Greene"
• "Cutting Up Characters"
• "A Review of the Reviewers"
• "Light Reading"