Junky: The Definitive Text of "Junk"

Overview:

  • Title: Junky: The Definitive Text of "Junk"
  • Author: William S. Burroughs
  • Year: 2012
  • ISBN-10: 9780802120427
  • Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
  • Price: £8.85
  • Pages: 197
  • Binding: Trade Paperback
  • Type: Novel
  • Title Reference: Junky
  • Notes: Data from Amazon UK as of 2014-05-29 and 2018-10-26, the Contents below, which apparently match that of the Penguin edition with the same full title.

    As of 2018-10-26, Amazon UK gives publ date 2012-11-13 (no price); US gives -10-18 "Buy New $14.04".
    • Both sites provide "Look inside", 1st printing per numberline, which shows:
    • Title page [iii], -- "Edited and with an introduction by Oliver Harris" -- 3-line footer: [logo] // Grove Press // New York
    • Copyright page -- "This edition with material by Allen Ginsberg and edited with an introduction by Oliver Harris published by arrangement with Penguin Classics, an imprint of Penguin Books" -- ISBN above and "e-Book ISBN: 978-0-8021-9405-3" -- "Grove Press // an imprint of Grove/Atlantic, Inc. // [street address]" -- numberline: 12 to 15; 10 to 1
    • Contents list, p[v] Those below (11) include seven "Appendices" numbered 1 to 7, from p151. Other listings: -- Acknowledgments, p.vii -- Notes, p187
    • Three sections provided with occasional omitted pages, whose selection may vary: -- Introduction, p[ix]-xxxvii Closing, "Oliver Harris" over "September 2002". Quotations from letters by Burroughs are primarily from The Letters of William S. Burroughs: 1945–1959, ed. Oliver Harris (Penguin, 1993). -- Prologue, p[1]-6 -- Notes, p[187]-97