William S. Burroughs’ Bookshelf

A close look from a 1986 photograph of one of William S. Burroughs’ bookshelves. Includes edition level information for a good number of books. Could make a mini-collection.

https://realitystudio.org/publications/road-to-interzone/chris-steins-photograph...

Emory supposedly has about 100 Burroughs books, but on quick search I didn't find them in the OPAC (I didn't look closely though, so maybe somebody else can).

And just to note explicitly here what's mentioned at the site linked in >1 benjclark:, the Stein book evidently includes additional titles from WSB's library. So another source for the project, should anyone start it.

So how do we do this? Is there a help page on how to create a Legacy Library?

>4 eqx: You can start by reading the group page.

There isn't really enough information to do much with this collection - if we could get some more data and/or locate the books at Emory, it might be doable.

>6 JBD1: There isn't really enough information to do much with this collection

Could we not start with the list on https://realitystudio.org/publications/road-to-interzone/chris-steins-photograph... ?

Or is that not sufficiently authoritative?

That was my first thought, yes, but after looking more carefully at the linked site, I see that Michael Stevens—who wrote that analysis of the photograph in question—has published a quite thorough study of Burroughs' reading and his library (https://realitystudio.org/publications/road-to-interzone/), first in 2009 (305 pages) and then with a large addendum in 2022 (149 pages). These sources would be the logical source for a Burroughs LL; but we would need to get Stevens' permission to use his material in LT.

Given that, my inclination would be to mark Burroughs' library as "Cataloged Elsewhere," since the information is available in Stevens' works.