Original Handbill for ‘An Evening With William Burroughs’, Friday, February 25, 1983, in San Francisco at the Kabuki Nightclub
1983 · San Francisco, CA
by BURROUGHS, WILLIAM
San Francisco, CA: 8 1/2” x 11”, 1983. Original handbill for ‘An Evening With William Burroughs’, Friday, February 25, 1983, in San Francisco at the Kabuki Nightclub. 8 1/2” x 11” on tan paper with black lettering. Fine. The text in full, reading from top to bottom: “An Evening with William Burroughs [with a 2 1/4” x 2 3/4” photo of Burroughs just below] / Special Guest Debora Iyall (Romeo Void) with accompaniment / Premier showing of Robert Frank’s Energy And How To Get It, Starring...Wm Burroughs / Friday Feb. 25, 9pm / Kabuki Nightclub, 1881 post, SF”. At the time of this event, Burroughs was on a promotional tour for his novel ‘The Place of Dead Roads’, the second volume in his trilogy that begins with ‘Cities of the Red Night’ (1981) and concludes with ‘The Western Lands’ (1987) - chronicling the story of a gay gunfighter in the American West. (Inventory #: 21906E)