Ghost of Chance Signed Rare William S. Burroughs

Published by the Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1991., 1991. Tall folio; 15 x 101/4 in., (26)ff., Illustrated with three black and white etchings. One black and white drawing and 10 colored lithographs, tipped in. The eighth book in the Artists and Writer's Series published by the Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art. One of 160 copies signed by Burroughs and Condo. This edition was designed by Leslie Miller and organized by May Castleberry. Edited by Burroughs longtime assistant James Grauerholz. George Condo made the etchings with Aldo Crommelynck, who printed the edition in Paris. The text was sent in Monotype Walbaum by Michael Bixler and printed by hand on Hahnemahle etching paper by Leslie Miller at the Grenfell Press. Sue Medlicot printed the lithographs at Allethaire Press. Hand bound by Claudia Cohen in a full silk-surfaced black cloth with golden tan fibers interwoven. Black leather spine label with title stamped in gold, vertically. Full color pictorial end papers. In a matching cloth covered slipcase.The book is in very fine condition.