1st Grove Press (Black Cat) Softcover Printing of "The Soft Machine" (1967)

New York City: Grove Press (book, primary), 1967.
7" x 4.125" x 0.5", 182 pages plus ads, softcover, trade paperback, "BC-131".

The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs as published as a trade paperback by Grove Press under their Black Cat imprint (New York City) in 1967.  Cover photo by Charles Henri Ford.

In addition to the book's text, Burroughs is quoted at the end of a leading series of blurbs: "In this work I am attempting to create a new mythology for the space age."

Maynard & Miles A5.c.
Shoaf I.5c.
Schottlaender v4.A5.C.

Contents: 

• "Dead on Arrival"
• "Who Am I to Be Critical"
• "Public Agent"
• "Trak Trak Trak"
• "Early Answer"
• "Case of the Celluloid Kali"
• "The Mayan Caper"
• "I Sekuin"
• "Pretend an Interest"
• "Last Hints"
• "Where the Awning Flaps"
• "1920 Movies"
• "Where You Belong"
• "Uranian Willy"
• "Gongs of Violence"
• "Cross the Wounded Galaxies"