{"id":40126,"date":"2020-06-10T11:27:22","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T15:27:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=40126"},"modified":"2020-06-10T12:56:17","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T16:56:17","slug":"latest-find-thrills-collector-of-rare-burroughs-gysin-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2020\/06\/latest-find-thrills-collector-of-rare-burroughs-gysin-books.html","title":{"rendered":"Latest Find Thrills Collector of Rare Burroughs\/Gysin Books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jed Birmingham, who writes the Bibliographic Bunker, an extraordinary column about books by William S. Burroughs and related mimeo magazines, calls The Exterminator<\/em> “one of the forgotten texts of Burroughs\u2019 bibliography.”<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Published by The Auerhahn Press in San Francisco, in 1960, the book had a first-edition printing of “roughly 1000 copies,” he writes, and is so little known he guesses that “few of even the most dedicated Burroughs fans have ever read it.” Furthermore, he also feels that “as an object” the book “is one of Burroughs\u2019 most beautiful publications.” And finding one in fine condition, he adds, “is a challenge.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So you can understand why Jeff Ball is thrilled by his latest acquisition\u2014a copy that is not only signed by both Burroughs and Gysin but has original artwork that Gysin drew and signed on an inside page. “I\u2019m giddy!” says Ball, whose collection of rare first editions by Burroughs and associated writers, includes some of the most hard-to-find materials anywhere. Have a look at what thrills him: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Signed title page.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Calligraphy drawn on blank inside page.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Jeff Ball’s latest acquisition\u2014a first-edition copy of “The Exterminator”\u2014 is not only signed by both William Burroughs and Brion Gysin but has original artwork that Gysin drew and signed on an inside page. “I\u2019m giddy!” says Ball, whose collection of rare first editions by Burroughs and associated writers, includes some of the most hard-to-find materials anywhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":40123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,26,18,4,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-40126","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"category-books","9":"category-literature","10":"category-main","11":"category-news","12":"category-political-culture","13":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/THE-EXTERMINATOR-COVER-1960.front-brdr-365.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-arc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40126"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40169,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40126\/revisions\/40169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}