Roosevelt After Inauguration

New York: Fuck You Press, January 1964.

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Softcover. First edition. Covers by Allen Ginsberg. 24mo. 12pp., printed on one side of various colored sheets. Stapled paper wraps. Fine. Signed by Burroughs. A mimeo from the Fuck You Press limited to 500 copies. It contains the missing section from the Ginsberg/Burroughs's book *The Yage Letters* originally printed in *Floating Bear* #9, which led to the arrest of LeRoi Jones and Diane di Prima for indecency (the charges were later dropped). It was intended to be published a second time in *City Lights* but the English printer refused. Publisher Ed Sanders happily took up the cause. *Maynard & Miles* A9.

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Item #368443 Roosevelt After Inauguration. William S. BURROUGHS, Willy Lee.
Roosevelt After Inauguration

William S. Burroughs
birth name: William Seward Burroughs
born: 2/5/1914
died: 9/2/1997

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American writer of experimental novels that evoke, in deliberately erratic prose, a nightmarish, sometimes wildly humorous world. His sexual expliciteness (he was an avowed and outspoken homosexual) and the frankness with which he dealt with his own experiences as a drug addict won him a following among writers of the Beat Movement. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore

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