The Streets of Chance (Signed)
New York: The Red Ozier Press, 1981.
Limited Edition. Hardcover.
#106 of a Limited Edition of 160 copies. Signed by William S. Burroughs and Howard Buchwald on p.21 of the book.
The Soft Machine was published in 1961 by Olympia Press in Paris; in 1967 by Grove Press in New York; and in 1968 by Calder Boyars in London. Each successive edition contained revisions and additional material and the 1968 version contained sections employing the newly-perfected cut-up technique. The Streets of Chance is a complete story found in the 1968 version and nowhere else. On 30 January 1981, Mr. Burroughs oversaw revision of the text by James Grauerholz and Steve Miller, that version is printed here.
The cover and text illustrations were created by Howard Buchwald. Alice Koeth designed and drew the title page. Out of Sort Foundry produced the Optima type on a Thompson typecaster from Linotype matrices; it was hand-set on Frankfurt paper and hand-bound at the Twelfth Night Bindery in Buckram with serigraphy by Springraphics, featuring a screen-printed drawing from the book. The project was imagined and produced at Red Ozier's Chelsea workshop by Ken Botnick and Steve Miller. Prospectus laid in.
Item #9024835-7/8 x 9-1/4", gray buckram with screen-printed design from the fold-out plate by Howard Buchwald in the book, embossed spine title, 21pp.
Clean, square, bright, crisp, fine with original prospectus laid in - prospectus has 3 coffee drips on front panel.
Price: $1,200.00