NMLP P-033800 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-04

The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead

William S. Burroughs · Grove Press · 1971

First edition, first printing: black cloth-covered boards stamped in gilt on the spine, issued in the pictorial dust jacket with the printed price present (surviving jackets are frequently price-clipped, which does not affect the first-issue identification)

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-033800 for "The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead" by William S. Burroughs (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-033800, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).