William S. Burroughs: THE FRISCO KID
2023 32pp Tangerine Press. Illustrated. Quarter orange cloth, orange boards with titling embossed in black. Fine.
Ltd. ed. 49/50, signed by Iain Sinclair. Includes an extra envelope containing a photographic portrait of Burroughs, a facsimile of Burroughs original cover letter and an uncropped version of Beat Hotel with Mirror.
Sixty years ago, a 20-year old Iain Sinclair, then studying in Dublin, Ireland, received a surprise submission for Albatross, a fledgling literary magazine he and two friends had started. This trio of ambitious editors sent out requests for new work to literary heroes of the day: Djuna Barnes, Paul Bowles, Jane Bowles, Jean Genet, Ezra Pound, et al. Only one replied: William S. Burroughs of Tangier, Morocco . . .
This edition aims to recreate a more accurate version of the three column/three row 'experiment' Mr Burroughs submitted.

