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Item Details
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| Author: |
Burroughs, William S. |
| Title: |
Cities of the Red Night: A Boy's Book |
| Place: |
New York |
| Publisher: |
Holt, Rinehart & Winston |
| Date: |
[1981] |
| Item # : |
182326 |
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| Sale Number |
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364 |
| Lot Number |
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319 |
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| Fine Literature of the 19th & 20th Centuries, with the David Oakey Collection of Gary Snyder |
| Sale Date |
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09/27/2007 |
| Price realized |
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$ 172 |
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| Description: |
| 10¾x5½, violet-colored wrappers, printed in black. Uncorrected Galley Proof. |
| Inscribed presentation copy, signed in the year of publication on the title page: “For Larry Lee, all the best, William S. Burroughs, May 17, 1891” [presumably 1981]. Larry Lee was a long-time friend of Jimi Hendrix and joined his Gypsy Sun and Rainbows group as rhythm guitar. He joined the newly formed band one week before Woodstock. |
| Condition: |
| Fading to spine and portions of covers, 1" split to spine foot, leaning; front hinge tender, else good or better. |
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