William S. Burroughs: MAYFAIR ACADEMY SERIES
nd 1970s 104pp Urgency Rip Off Press A5 stapled booklet. Printed on orange, green, and blue paper. VG.
From the library of Spydeee Gasmantell, with his signature on prelims.This one is from a run of 500. A bootlegged collection of WSB’s articles in Mayfair magazine. Published in the early 1970s by Roy Pennington and his brother. This mimeo’d production is a forerunner of what was to become quite shortly zines. Roy Pennington noticed the articles in Mayfair magazine and began collecting them. The ten articles were copied onto platens and printed from stencils. Pennington has publicly stated he thinks there are less than 1000 copies. At that time WSB was investigating Scientology. (on a personal note so was I - through reading WSB. I was invited into the Scientology brainwashing building in B’ham as I walked past. They measured my engram and results were so impressive I was offered a life with them. Yeah right. I declined being even then averse to cults).