The Process
London: Jonathan Cape, 1970.
First British edition, first printing. Signed by Brion Gysin to Stanley Bard, owner and manager of the notorious Chelsea Hotel in New York, with a second inscription to Richard Aaron reading "For Stanley Bard of The Chelsea Hotel in present time, [signed] Brion," "And now for Richard Aaron, Paris, 31 March 1979." At the time of publication, Gysin was living at the Chelsea Hotel on the 7th floor near William S. Burroughs. Bard often accepted works of literature of art in lieu of rent.
Bound in publisher's black cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Fine, in a Near Fine dust jacket, lightly edge-worn and lightly soiled, with fading and light staining to spine panel. The painter and composer's first novel. Gysin is best known for his discovery of the cut-up technique, which was famously used by his friend and collaborator, William S. Burroughs.
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