{"product_id":"burroughs-wiliam-s-the-place-of-dead-roads","title":"BURROUGHS, Wiliam S. The Place of Dead Roads.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBURROUGHS, Wiliam S. \u003cem\u003eThe Place\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eof \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eDead Roads\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNew York: Grove Press, 1984\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e8vo (240 x 160 mm). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSigned\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e on the limitation statement. Publisher’s beige cloth, in slipcase and without dustjacket, as issued, and with the printed cardboard box, hand-numbered; box opened, book and slipcase still sealed. Fine.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFIRST, limited edition, with the book and slipcase still sealed; number 122 or only 300 copies hand-numbered and signed by Burroughs.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe second work in Burroughs’ major later Red Night Trilogy, chronicling the life of a gay gunslinger. In these novels, the author abandoned his “cut-up” form by writing the novel narratively first and then disarticulating the chronology after the fact.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis copy comes from the collection of Ira Silverberg. Burroughs and Silverberg maintained an intense, intimate friendship from their first meeting until the Beat giant’s death in 1997. Silverberg first encountered Burroughs’ work when someone “gave him a copy of \u003cem\u003eNaked Lunch\u003c\/em\u003e while he was on cocaine for the first time in the hallway of his Bronx high shcool,” but they first met when Silverberg began a relationship with James Grauerholz (Burroughs’ assistant). He woke up one morning in the Bunker at 222 Bowery, and before he knew it he was convinced to move to Lawrence, Kansas with the two of them. The “paterfamililas of his queer family” — made up of the likes of Grauerholz, John Giorno, Carl Apfelschnitt, and others — and his “maharishi,” Silverberg would go on to become literary agent and editor until the end of the end of the author’s life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eA rare and desirable edition\u003c\/span\u003e, with an intimate association.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePROVENANCE: Ira Silverberg\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eREFERENCES: Schottlaender A56a; Shoaf 49\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e#1091\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heavenacid","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47639585194068,"sku":"1091","price":750.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0675\/4811\/9124\/files\/1091.jpg?v=1788788350","url":"https:\/\/heavenacid.com\/products\/burroughs-wiliam-s-the-place-of-dead-roads","provider":"Heavenacid","version":"1.0","type":"link"}