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Burroughs, William
Estimate
600 - 800 GBP
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Description
- Burroughs, William
- The Ticket that Exploded. Paris: Olympia Press, 1962
- Paper
8vo (174 x 110mm.), FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (with "18 N. F." on the rear cover), PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY BURROUGHS ("For Roger Richards | with season's | greetings | all the best | William Burroughs") on the title page AND BY MAURICE GIRODIAS ("For Roger Richards | A bookseller after | my heart | Maurice Girodias") on the front free endpaper, original printed green wrappers, dust-jacket, spine creased, jacket slightly worn at extremities
Provenance
Sale, Bloomsbury London, 7 November 2003, lot 634
Literature
Maynard and Miles A6a
Condition
Condition is as described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate.
"In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective, qualified opinion. Prospective buyers should also refer to any Important Notices regarding this sale, which are printed in the Sale Catalogue.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE SALE CATALOGUE."
"In response to your inquiry, we are pleased to provide you with a general report of the condition of the property described above. Since we are not professional conservators or restorers, we urge you to consult with a restorer or conservator of your choice who will be better able to provide a detailed, professional report. Prospective buyers should inspect each lot to satisfy themselves as to condition and must understand that any statement made by Sotheby's is merely a subjective, qualified opinion. Prospective buyers should also refer to any Important Notices regarding this sale, which are printed in the Sale Catalogue.
NOTWITHSTANDING THIS REPORT OR ANY DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING A LOT, ALL LOTS ARE OFFERED AND SOLD AS IS" IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CONDITIONS OF BUSINESS PRINTED IN THE SALE CATALOGUE."
Catalogue Note
Inscribed by both Burroughs and the founder of the Olympia Press, Maurice Girodias, to the New York book dealer Roger Richards. Richards moved to New York in the 1950s where he quickly found himself at the centre of first the Warhol factory scene and then the Beat Movement. His bookshop 'Greenwich Books' was frequented by Ginsberg, Huncke, Corso and Burroughs himself.
The Ticket that Exploded was numbered 91 in Girodias' "Traveller's Companion Series" which also included Nabokov's Lolita, Beckett's Molloy, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable, and Burroughs' own Naked Lunch.