BURROUGHS, William S. The Last Words of Dutch Schultz. 1st ED. PRESENTATION COPY. -- And 1 other.
Sale 1262 - Summer Reading: 20th Century Literature and Biography from a Private Collection
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BURROUGHS, William S. (1914-1997). The Last Words of Dutch Schultz: A Fiction in the Form of a Film Script. New York: The Viking Press, 1975.
8vo. Original cloth; publisher’s dust jacket (some rubbing).
FIRST EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY BURROUGHS: “To Bernie Powers William S. Burroughs June 24, 1993.” The Last Words of Dutch Schultz is based on the death of notorious gangster Schultz, who was shot to death in the bathroom of the Palace Chop Restaurant in Newark on October 23, 1935.
[With:] BURROUGHS. Cities of the Red Night. New York: Holt, Rinehart, & Winston, 1981. 8vo. Original cloth; publisher’s dust jacket. FIRST EDITION. Cities of the Night is the first in Burroughs’s Red Night Trilogy.
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