Numbered Chapbook Edition of "William Burroughs" by Alan Ansen (1986)

Sudbury, Massachusetts, US: Water Row Books (chapbook, book), 1986.
8.625" x 5.625", 46 pages, stapled wraps, numbered, ISBN 0-934953-09-0.

William Burroughs by Alan Ansen, as published in a numbered chapbook edition by Water Row Books (Sudbury, Massachusetts, US) in 1986. This essay "draws upon material published in three earlier essays: 'Anyone Who Can Pick Up a Frying Pan Owns Death' (Big Table, Summer 1959); 'After THE NAKED LUNCH' (City Lights Journal, 1964); and 'William Burroughs: A Personal View' (Review of Contemporary Fiction, Spring 1984)." Allen Ginsberg photographed the frontispiece image of William S. Burroughs and Alan Ansen in Tangier, 1957. Produced by Jeffrey Weinberg with Steven Moore. Designed and printed letterpress by Tabula Rasa Press (Morro Bay, California, US) in August 1986.

This stapled wraps edition was released in a run of 500 numbered copies; the pictured copy is #265. There is additionally a Deluxe Signed edition of 50 numbered copies.

This book was republished in 2022 as A Burroughs Triptych, with an introduction by Oliver Harris.