Burroughs, Willliam
Title |
The Naked Lunch |
Date |
London 1964 |
Publisher |
John Calder (Publishers) Ltd in association with Olympia Press |
Description
First Edition, first impression, in Great Britain. Publisher's beige paper-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Clear, removable, archival protective cover fitted to the illustrated dust-jacket, lettered in red and black. Octavo. pp. [4], 252. Originally published in English by Olympia Press in 1959, and subsequently by Grove Press, New York in 1962, Sugar Editore, Milan, 1963 and Editions Gallimard, Paris in 1964.
Condition
A book in Near Fine condition with a slight lean and odd speckle to top edge, in a Very Good dust-jacket with one tiny nick to rear top edge, slight edge creasing and a little rubbing, but which is not price-clipped (showing '42s').