Junkie by William Burroughs
The first edition, first impression of William Burroughs’ semi-autobiographical novel about heroin users and dealers in New York in the 1950s. Published under the pseudonym William Lee, the book was initially considered unpublishable until after many rejections he was connected with Ace Books through Carl Solomon (to whom Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’ is dedicated), a printer of cheap, subway pulp fictions among which this literary classic took its place. It is printed ‘dos-à-dos’ with the largely forgotten ‘Narcotic Agent’ by Maurice Helbrant.
The first edition, first impression of William Burroughs’ semi-autobiographical novel about heroin users and dealers in New York in the 1950s. Published under the pseudonym William Lee, the book was initially considered unpublishable until after many rejections he was connected with Ace Books through Carl Solomon (to whom Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’ is dedicated), a printer of cheap, subway pulp fictions among which this literary classic took its place. It is printed ‘dos-à-dos’ with the largely forgotten ‘Narcotic Agent’ by Maurice Helbrant.
The first edition, first impression of William Burroughs’ semi-autobiographical novel about heroin users and dealers in New York in the 1950s. Published under the pseudonym William Lee, the book was initially considered unpublishable until after many rejections he was connected with Ace Books through Carl Solomon (to whom Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’ is dedicated), a printer of cheap, subway pulp fictions among which this literary classic took its place. It is printed ‘dos-à-dos’ with the largely forgotten ‘Narcotic Agent’ by Maurice Helbrant.