BURROUGHS WILLIAM The Soft Machine

Sale 2295 - Lot 35

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Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200

BURROUGHS, WILLIAM. The Soft Machine. 8vo, original wrappers, tiny dog-ear to upper corner of rear wrapper; pictorial dust jacket after a design by Brion Gysin, light rubbing to folds. Paris: The Olympia Press, (1961).

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first edition, first issue, with printed price "15 N.F." inked out on rear cover. A very nice copy of early Burroughs Cut-Ups, his experimental collage and fold-in aleatory compositional technique partly inspired by his friend and sometime collaborator Gysin, as well as earlier Dadaist efforts. Maynard & Miles A5a.