Research Catalog

Title

The electric banana / Mary Beach ; introduction by William Burroughs.

Author

Beach, Mary, 1919-2006.

Publication

Cherry Valley, N.Y. : Cherry Valley Editions, c1975.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hubaut, Joël.
• Weissner, Carl.

Description

36 p.; 21 cm.

Subject

Young gay men > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Erotic fiction.
• Literature, Experimental.

Note

• "Printed in an edition of 500 copies."--From statement on last page.
• "Twenty-six copies are lettered A-Z by the author and William Burroughs who was kind enough to present The Electric Banana."--From the dedication page.
• "Dedicated with gratitude to my friend Carl Weissner."
• "Publication of this book has been made possible by a grant from the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines which it has made through frunds [sic] received from the New York State Council on the Arts. This project is supported by a grant from the N.E.A. [...]."--From t.p. verso.
• "These scannings from The Electric Banana show the musical use of repetition--the words go round and round and come back where they started from and start again as we glimpse language seen in spatial perspective as an immense organism talking through throats of the world [...]."--From the introduction.

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Binding (note)

• Issued in printed paper wrappers; front cover with reproduction in black and white of bespectacled nun, with chain around her waist, eating a half-peeled banana. Cover by Joel Hubaut.

Call Number

Berg Coll Burroughs ZC6 B43 1975

ISBN

• 0916156079
• 9780916156077

LCCN

75033678

OCLC

1735542

Author

Beach, Mary, 1919-2006.

Title

The electric banana / Mary Beach ; introduction by William Burroughs.

Imprint

Cherry Valley, N.Y. : Cherry Valley Editions, c1975.

Access

Restricted access; request permission from holding division.

Local Note

Berg Collection copy is "M," hand penned by Mary Beach; signed by Mary Beach and William S. Burroughs on dedication page.

Binding

Issued in printed paper wrappers; front cover with reproduction in black and white of bespectacled nun, with chain around her waist, eating a half-peeled banana. Cover by Joel Hubaut.

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Added Author

Hubaut, Joël. Cover designer

Weissner, Carl. Dedicatee

Beach, Mary, 1919- Signer

Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997. Contributor. Signer

Research Call Number

Berg Coll Burroughs ZC6 B43 1975