Big Table 1-5

Chicago: Big Table, Inc, 1959-1960.

Price: $250.00

Softcover. First edition, complete in 5 volumes. Perfectbound wrappers. The issues are moderately soiled with a modestly toned spine on Volume 1, light foxing on the cover of Volume 2, and a small tear on the spine of Volume 4, overall very good. Included is the notorious first issue which reprints the complete contents of the suppressed *Winter 1959 Chicago Review*, which consisted of "Ten Episodes from *Naked Lunch*" by William S. Burroughs, "Old Angel Midnight" by Jack Kerouac, two pieces by Edward Dahlberg and three poems from Gregory Corso. *Maynard and Miles* C6. The remaining issues feature contributions from Allen Ginsberg, Antonin Artaud, Paul Bowles, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Robert Duncan, John Ashbery, Norman Mailer, Robert Creeley, Jack Spicer, Jack Kerouac, LoRoi Jones, Charles Olson, John Updike, and others.

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Item #541905 Big Table 1-5. William S. BURROUGHS, John Updik, Charles Olson, LoRoi Jones, Jack Kerouac, Jack Spicer, Robert Creeley, Norman Mailer, John Ashbery, Robert Duncan, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Paul Bowles, Antonin Artaud, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Edward Dahlberg, Jack Kerouac, Irving ROSENTHAL.

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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