NMLP P-033711 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-04
Dead Fingers Talk
William S. Burroughs · John Calder / Olympia Press (London) · 1963
True first is the 1963 John Calder in association with Olympia Press, London hardcover, a UK-only original never issued or translated outside the UK; it was out of print for nearly fifty years until the 2020 Restored edition, which first identified the previously unpublished material Calder had claimed.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-033711 for "Dead Fingers Talk" by William S. Burroughs (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-033711, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).