The Adding Machine Selected Essays by Burroughs, William S - 1986

Seaver Books, 1986. Hardcover. Good. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Holt & Company, Henry. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Seaver Books, 1986. Hardcover. Good.

Seaver Books, January 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition, first printing. Owner name present, sharp & clean inside and out. Jacket VG, slight age discoloration on spine & back.

Seaver Books, 1986. Book. VG+. Hardcover. First American Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dark blue 1/4 cloth, slate blue paper-covered boards, lettered in silver foil. Mild tanning to portions of both boards, former owner's initials inked on upper front flyleaf. Dust jacket quite tanned, with mild dampstaining to portions of front panel and along top rear edge, rubbed extremities, now in mylar. 1st American ed., 1st ptg. thus. [vi],205 pp..

New York, New York, U.S.A. : Seaver Books, 1986, First Edition,. Very Good/Unknown. Octavo, hardcove, VG in lightly fading light blue pictorial dj. Previous labels removed. Burroughs, in these essays, writes about himself, his interests, his influences, his friends and foes, and offers candid not always flattering assessments of Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Samuel Beckett, and Marcel Proust. He also comments on science and the often dubious paths into which it seems intent on leading us, whether into outer or inner space. His comments on genetics and mind control are as prescient as they are probing. He reviews his reviewers, explains his famous "cut-up" method, discusses the role coincidence has played in his life and work. As satirist and parodist, he has no peer, as these varied works, written over three decades, amply reveal. 205 pp.

H. Fine.

New York: Seaver Books, 1986. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo.,205pp. Sharp Stated First American Edition, First Printing with full number sequence. Bound in 1/4 black cloth over gray paper-covered boards with titles in silver on spine. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Previous owner's name has been crossed out with a marker on the front end-paper. Very attractive unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, ($16.95), has fairly minor edge-wear and a small abrasion and residue from a sticker removed on the rear panel. Still fresh and bright with no creases, tears or chipping. A very pretty collectable copy at a great price.

Seaver Books, January 1986. Hardcover. USED Good.

New York: Seaver Books, 1986. First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Book condition is Very Good+, with a Very Good dust jacket. Foxing and minor edge wear to dust jacket. Minor toning to boards. Text is clean and unmarked. "In these scintillating essays he . . . Offers candid and not always flattering assessments of such diverse writers as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Samuel Beckett, and Marcel Proust." - dust jacket. First American Edition is stated. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 205 pages.