THE LAST MUSEUM

NY: The Grove Press, 1986. Very scarce first edition, first printing. Brion Gysin [1916–1986] was a British-Canadian painter, writer, sound poet, performance artist and inventor of experimental devices. “The Last Museum” is a fantastical and nearly inaccessible last novel from Gysin, who was a friend of and collaborator with William S. Burroughs, and who here appears to be re-writing Naked Lunch. Derivative, obscure, and filled with in-jokes from another era, Burroughs said that Gysin “was the only man I ever respected." A very scarce book!. 8vo., black boards in dust jacket; 186 pages. Introduction by William S. Burroughs. A fine copy in an equally fine d/j. (Inventory #: 58449)