Book Collecting & Library Monthly, Issue 5, September 1968






This issue contains “Notes on Compiling a Bibliography of William S. Burroughs” by Miles, pp. 26-27. This was published years before the book's completion and offers an interesting set of insights into the complexity of aggregating Burroughs' materials.

There are also advertisements for Miles’ Indica Books and Bill Butler’s Unicorn Books in this issue.

Published in London by Book Collecting & Library Monthly in September 1968.

Bibliographic Information:

  • Not in Maynard & Miles
  • Not in Shoaf
  • Not in Schottlaender
  • Raven 19680900BCLM.0.5
Contents:

note: unstated authorship is likely the editor's work.
  • B. Hutcison: editorial
  • unstated: "Dangerous Books. Stepniak. 1852-95" 
  • unstated: "Books in Bottles"
  • unstated: "Changes in New Inland Post"
  • unstated: "Publishers' Information Cards"
  • unstated: "Catalogues Received"
  • unstated: "Book Received"
  • "For Sale" listings
  • J. R. Rees: "Concerning Books and Lovers of Books"
  • unstated: "A Bookseller Produces an Unusual Book"
  • unstated: "The Adventures of Romney Pringle"
  • unstated: "Kingsley Amis"
  • unstated: "Middlemarch"
  • unstated: "Another Undervalued Author Robert Southey 1774-1843"
  • unstated: "Booth's Theory"
  • unstated: "Books by and about Wilkie Collins 1824-89"
  • unstated: "Oscar Wilde"
  • unstated: "Southeby & Co." (auction returns)
  • Miles: "Notes on Compiling a Bibliography of William S. Burroughs" 
  • unstated: "Marriage Proposition"
  • unstated: "Free Book"
  • "Books for Sale" listings
  • "Books Wanted" listings
Publishing Information: 
  • Editor: B. Hutchison

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