And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks by Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs (1st Edition, Warren Siebrits' Copy)

Author: Burroughs, William S. & Kerouac, Jack 
Title: And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks 
Publisher: Penguin Classics 
Date: 2008 
Place: London 
Dimensions: 8vo. 22.5cm x 14.5cm 

[4]+214pp.
1st edition

Black cloth boards, white titles to spine. Fine in Fine jacket.
Ex-libris of Warren Siebrits with notes on how, when and where the book was acquired to half title.

Originally written in 1945 with alternating chapters by Burroughs and Kerouac, the book is a fictionalised account of the killing of David Kammerer by Lucien Carr, a crime for which Kerouac was jailed as an accessory after the fact for not reporting the killing to the police. Burroughs was also arrested, but released on bail. The book was withheld from publication until the death of Lucien Carr, although quotations and excerpts appeared in places before this edition.