William s burroughs novel (5 risultati)

Vintage studio still photograph of director Gus Van Sant and actor Matt Dillon on the set of the 1989 film. Noted director Gus Van Sant's first feature film, and a breakthrough film for actors Matt Dillon and Kelly Lynch. A nihilistic answer to the onslaught of coming-of-age movies in the 1980s, appropriately released at the end of that decade. The unsentimental exploits of a group of young people driven by nothing other than boredom and an obsessive need for more drugs, leading inevitably to confusion and rampant lawlessness. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Spicer US Neo-Noir. …

Three vintage borderless reference photographs from the 1991 film. Annotations in manuscript ink on the versos, noting the film's French title. Based on William S. Burroughs' 1959 novel. Poorly received upon release, but today considered a cult film, faithful to the spirit of the author's Beat classic, if not the actual text. Set in Interzone and Annexia, shot on location in Ontario. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. Near Fine to Fine. Criterion Collection 220. Rosenbaum 1000.…

Vintage studio still photograph of Matt Dillon and William Burroughs from the 1989 film. From the archive of film historian and author Joel Finler. Director Gus Van Sant's first feature film, and a breakthrough film for actors Matt Dillon and Kelly Lynch. A nihilistic answer to the onslaught of coming-of-age movies in the 1980s, appropriately released at the end of that decade. The unsentimental exploits of a group of young people driven by nothing other than boredom and an obsessive need for more drugs, leading inevitably to confusion and rampant lawlessness. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine. Spicer US Neo-Noir.…

First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in metallic red and orange on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-156,[2]pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Small ink price at upper front endpaper, one tiny spot to upper edge of textblock, else a clean, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $5.95), showing light wear to extremities, hint of sunning to spine, with two small closed tears, and a shallow stain at base of spine panel (visible only on verso); Very Good+ or better. First American edition of Ballard's most incendiary work, originally released under the title The Atrocity Exhibition by Doubleday (1970), who pulped virtually the entire run. The book is a "series of "condensed novels" collages of images presenting a kaleidoscopic pattern of twentieth-century myths and motifs, particularly those that dominated the 1960s. Political assassinations, customized cars, the space program, the arms race, the media as brokers of celebrity - all are juxtaposed here in a nightmarish panorama of a culture out of control, subject to cancerous malaise" (Barron, Anatomy of Wonder 4-33). This edition contains a 2pp introduction by William S. Burroughs that did not appear in either the Doubleday edition or the UK edition published by Jonathan Cape. Maynard & Miles B68a. 8962.…

Vintage window card poster for the premiere of the 1987 play, which ran from May 8-12, 1987, at the Lawrence Community Theatre in Lawrence, Kansas-where Burroughs resided the last 16 years of his life. SIGNED and dated "William S Burroughs / 12/18/87." With the encouragement of Burroughs and Burroughs' personal assistant James Grauerholz, playwright Paul Stephen Lim adapted the play from both Burroughs' early novel "Queer" (published in 1985 but written between 1951 and 1953), and the author's unpublished correspondence from the 1950s. An experimental portrait of the author and his wife (here as Lee and Jane) living on the fringe as expatriates in Mexico City, as Lee fruitlessly pursues a young American boy, with the play's two female characters portrayed by life-sized ragdolls. The title of the play was inspired by Marlene Dietrich's performance of the song "The Boys in the Back Room" in the 1939 film "Destry Rides Again." OCLC locates two holdings, both at the University of Kansas. Scarce. 10.5 x 16.5 inches on satin-finish card stock. Light edgewear with faint rubbing and creasing at the corners, else Near Fine. Signed.…