{"product_id":"the-last-museum-brion-gysin-1st-edition","title":"The Last Museum, Brion Gysin — 1st Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication\u003c\/strong\u003e: London, Faber and Faber, 1986\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormatting\u003c\/strong\u003e: 8vo, pp. 186.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition Report\u003c\/strong\u003e: Very Good. The original black pictorial wrappers remain bright and entirely structurally sound, retaining a firm, square spine that heavily suggests the book has remained unopened and unread. There is some minor but characteristic curling to the leading edges of the front wrapper, alongside light shelf-wear and slight rubbing to the joints and extremities which subtly reveals the underlying white card. Internally, the text block is pristine and free from any previous ownership markings or inscriptions. There is expected age-related tanning to the page margins, a typical and unavoidable trait of the paper stock used by the publisher during this period, as well as light, sporadic foxing primarily confined to the text block edges and extreme preliminaries. Overall, a highly presentable, tightly bound survivor of a notoriously fragile paperback.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Note\u003c\/strong\u003e: First UK Edition. Published simultaneously with the American hardcover edition, this Faber and Faber paperback original presents Brion Gysin's final novel. It is notably striking for its front cover illustration, specially commissioned and executed by the renowned American pop artist Keith Haring, marking a brilliant visual intersection between the aging Beat generation and the vibrant 1980s downtown New York art scene. The rear panel further features an atmospheric photographic portrait of Gysin captured by Jane Atwood.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGiven the inherent fragility of the black wrappers, which heavily attract rubbing and edge wear, and the acidic nature of the 1980s paper stock, surviving copies that remain this tight, unread, and entirely uncreased along the spine are becoming increasingly uncommon on the open market.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Last Museum\u003c\/i\u003e is Brion Gysin's final, freewheeling masterwork, a loose and hallucinatory post-mortem adventure told within the Bardo, the intermediate death state of Tibetan Buddhism. Serving as a dizzying remembrance of the famous Beat Hotel in Paris, the narrative follows our protagonist through forty-nine rooms across seven floors before the entire structure is dismantled by the Interdead International Movers and shipped to the San Andreas fault. Packed with thinly veiled references to Gysin’s close contemporaries like William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, the novel is a hilarious, raunchy, and profound summation of a Rabelaisian life, confirming Gysin as one of the most unpredictable and visionary forces of the twentieth-century avant-garde.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadhursts Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54618416185683,"sku":"5129","price":35.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0960\/1469\/6787\/files\/20260811_131118.jpg?v=1787041344","url":"https:\/\/broadhurstsbooks.com\/products\/the-last-museum-brion-gysin-1st-edition","provider":"Broadhursts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}