{"product_id":"the-cat-inside-by-william-s-burroughs","title":"'The Cat Inside' by William S. Burroughs","description":"\u003cp\u003eWilliam S. Burroughs turns, improbably and perfectly, to cats.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Cat Inside\u003c\/em\u003e is a short book about animals, dreams, memory, death, affection, possession, and the psychic contracts humans make with the creatures who tolerate them. It is not “Burroughs goes cute”; the sweetness here is still edged with hauntings, missing cats, old crimes, telepathy and dream logic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginally published in a limited illustrated edition in 1986, this later Viking\/Penguin edition brings together Burroughs’ cat writing with a clean, spare design and Brion Gysin illustrations. A literary oddity, Beat-adjacent, animal metaphysics, it's for readers of Burroughs, cult American literature, artists’ books, cat people with unusual tolerance for existential weather.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRare. Viking \/ Penguin Books hardback edition, first edition thus, first published in this edition in 1992. Fourth printing. Originally published in a limited edition of 133 copies by The Grenfell Press in 1986, with illustrations by Brion Gysin. Good second-hand condition, with light shelfwear to boards, mild rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, and light age-toning to pages. Binding sound.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45713899159635,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/thebowerbooker-2026-06-18T190734.395.png?v=1781773667","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/the-cat-inside-by-william-s-burroughs","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}