Time by William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin (signed, limited)

This copy of Time is #40 of 100 copies signed and numbered by William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin, C Press, 1965, saddle stitched, Vg+ copy 8.5×11” with some tanning to a few pages at the center due to the insertion of a Berkeley Barb four page Burroughs subject insert (removed but on yellowed newsprint included with book and safely preserved in acrylic holder). This 1974 ephemera includes “Do Not Disturb the Mongrels” by Burroughs, a two page interview by Allen Ginsberg with John Tytell (all about Burroughs) and a one page S.Clay Wilson 12 panel comix: “The Boy Inside” inspired by Burroughs.

The Time booklet had its origin after a negative review of Naked Lunch appeard in a 1962 issue of Time, Burroughs and Gysin then proceded to cut-up the issue using Gysin’s cut-up experiments he developed after looking at Surrealist poet Tristan Tzara’s work esoecially “How to Write a Dadaist Poem” (1920). The Gysin-Burroughs cut-up collaborations would be discussed further in their joint book The Third Mind. Although Burroughs began using the technique in his novel The Soft Machine, Time was his first and most successful collaboration with Gysin.

$ 1,500.00