Exterminator!

William S. Burroughs. First edition, stated first printing. New York: The Viking Press, 1973. Both unclipped dust jacket and hardcover are in Very Good condition. There is a stain on front hardcover and residue on inside flap of dust jacket. No writing or markings found inside the book and all pages clean, 168 pp. 

Exterminator! is a collection of interconnected short fiction by William S. Burroughs, first published in 1973 and often described by early reviewers as a novel due to its unified, cut-up style narrative threads. The stories range across satirical science fiction, dark comedy, and surreal horror, skewering authority, bureaucracy, addiction, and control systems with Burroughs' signature paranoid wit. Recurring pieces include "The Discipline of D.E.," "Ali's Smile," and "The Coming of the Purple Better One," each showcasing his fragmented, hallucinatory prose style and his career-long fascination with extermination as both literal pest control and metaphor for societal control. A key work from Burroughs' most experimental period, it remains a favorite among readers and collectors of Beat Generation literature.

A key title from the Beat Generation canon, prized by collectors of postwar American literature and Burroughs first editions.