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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Dons Book Store.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston - An Owl Book, 1985. 306 Pages. Minor wear on the front/spine cover. No other defects noted and the interior text pages are flawless. First published 1983 under the title The Johnson Family which was a then a term denoting good bum and thieves with moral codes of honor. This 1985 Edtion is the First Owl book. Novelist, poet, essayist and painter William S. Burroughs (1914 - 1997) also wrote under the pen name William Lee. A major figure of the Beat Generation, he affected popular culture as well as literature. Long expatriated in Paris and elsewhere, he is known for frank accounts of his life as a drug addict as in The Naked Lunch (Paris, 1959). This present book, one of some 18, was written in London and is the second volume of a trilogy sandwiched between Cities of the Red Night, 1981, and, The Western Lands, 1987. Unlike Burroughs' earlier works distinguished by accidental episodes, the trilogy was first composed as a straight narrative, then cut-up and re-assembled to erase the straight linear form. In this series of time-travel adventures, Burroughs's narrators are able to rewrite episodes in history and thus reform mankind. In this case, to allow gunslinging Kit Carson to organize Earth into a saner world with the help of scoundrels, bums, and theives . that is to say, his own Johnson Family.. First Owl Book. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 6" x 9".

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, 100 POCKETS.
New York, NY: Owl Books/Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1985. Text/BRAND NEW & Bright. First Edition, First Printing. Softcover/NF w/trace shelfwear. First published 1983 as "The Johnson Family" (turn-of-the-century term denoting good bums & thieves w/moral codes); this is the re-titled 1985 printing. Novelist, poet, essayist & painter William Seward Burroughs II (1914 - 1997) also used the pen name William Lee. Major figure of the Beat Generation, known for his autobiography as a drug addict in The Naked Lunch (Paris, 1959). This novel, one of 18, was written while he was in London. It is the 2nd in a triology ... between Cities of the Red Night (1981), and The Western Lands (1987). The Place of Dead Roads is the story of a surreal 19th century American gunslinger. Beginning with the gunfighter's death in 1899, non-linear in construction, it incorporates contrasting themes & time travel episodes while showing off Burroughs´ extensive knowledge of firearms. A refreshing perspectives in finding fault in and simplistically condeming others. The format, via narrators, to voice themselves --- in this case, for gunslinger Kim Carsons to tried to fashion Earth into a saner world aided by those who popular thoughts condemmed as scoundrels, bums, and theives ... that is to say, in the real world of his very own 'Johnson Farmily.'. First Edition, First Printing. Soft Cover. NEAR FINE/None as Issued. First Edition, First Printing.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Rob Warren Books.
A good old-fashioned shoot-out in the American West of the frontier days serves as the springboard for this hyperkinetic adventure in which gunslingers lead by Kim Carson fight for galactic freedom.AUTHORBIO: William S. Burroughs was born in St. Louis in 1914.His many other works include NAKED LUNCH and JUNKY.Described by Norman Mailer as one of America’s few writers genuinely “possessed by genius,“ he died in 1997., Paperback, Label: Henry Holt & Company, Henry Holt & Company, Produktgruppe: Book, Publiziert: 1985-09, Studio: Henry Holt & Company, Verkaufsrang: 6733301.

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adventure,contemporary,genre fiction,literary,literature and fiction,science fiction,science fiction and fantasy,westerns, Place of Dead Roads, A good old-fashioned shoot-out in the American West of the frontier days serves as the springboard for this hyperkinetic adventure in which gunslingers lead by Kim Carson fight for galactic freedom.AUTHORBIO: William S. Burroughs was born in St. Louis in 1914.His many other works include NAKED LUNCH and JUNKY.Described by Norman Mailer as one of America's few writers genuinely "possessed by genius," he died in 1997.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Nearfine.
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Von Händler/Antiquariat, atlantabookcompany.
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