Minutes to Go by William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Brion Gysin and Sinclair Beiles - 1968

Beach Books Texts and Documents, 1968. Soft cover. Fine. Illustrated tan wraps, small octavo. 63 pages. Claude Pelieu on page two. Fine copy. Rear wrap illustrated by Gysin. All books shipped in boxes.

Good copy with torn spine and separating pages. Black stains on back cover. Inscribed on first page by previous owner.

Paris: The English Bookshop, 1960. Paperback. First edition. Edgeworn and sunned cover; the front of the cover has a 6-7cm slit, affecting the opening two pages. Small tear on the spine foot. The binding is visible on the rear hinge and is a little weak at certain points; pages 3-14 are starting to come loose from the binding. Text is clear throughout. CM. 1st Edition. Paperback. Good. Used.

Two Cities Editions, 1960. 1st Edition. . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. Two Cities Editions: Paris, 1960. First edition. Thin 8vo; 32 leaves. Early work by Burroughs. Contributions by Brion Gysin, Gregory Corso, and Sinclair Beiles. Signed by Burroughs on the title page. Perfect bound in stiff light blue pictorial wraps. Rear cover is a calligraph in white and blue by Brion Gysin. One of 1,000 copies published on April 13, 1960. There was also a printing of 10 copies on fine paper, numbered 1-10. Spine and edges of the front panel are toned. Very good. Rare signed in any condition. Ref: Maynard and Miles.

Paris: Two Cities Editions. 1960. F First Edition Collectible. Paperback. Near Fine. SIGNED by co-author Brion Gysin on title page (exceptionally rare thus). A virtual snapshot of Gysin's experiments with the cutup method of composition, which he exposed Burroughs, Corso, and Beiles to at the Beat Hotel. Original blue wraps (spine slightly faded, slight traces of wear). A truly exceptional copy of this fugitive Beat icon. Signed: I Signed by Co-Author

Paris: Two Cities Editions,, 1960. Signed by Gysin First edition, first printing, signed on the title page by Brion Gysin, next to his printed name. This was the first book of cut-up poetry published by Burroughs, Gysin, and their collaborators: "the original manifesto and manual of the method" (Harris), and marks the first of Burroughs and Gysin's many collaborations. Burroughs and Gysin had met at the Beat Hotel in Paris, in October 1959, where Burroughs was first introduced to Gysin's cut-up paintings, which influenced much of his later writing. By the time they had met, Gysin had already contributed the notorious marijuana fudge recipe to Alice B. Toklas's Cookbook, and the pair's time in Paris together was dominated by "mirror-gazing, scrying, trance and telepathy, all fuelled by a wide variety of mind-altering drugs" (Stevens, p. 50). It was from this febrile atmosphere that the present book emerged. Burroughs contributes eleven pieces to the volume, and Gysin five, including "First Cut-Ups"… Read More

Paris: Two Cities Editions, 1960. Book. Very Good. Card Wrappers. Signed by Author(s). First Edition. 63pp + colophon. Signed by both Brion Gysin & William Burroughs on title page. Covers a little rubbed & faded..