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Advance copy, Grove Press production copy. First printing stated. (Only 3,500 printed). Black cloth and boards and blue-black top stain. Other first edition indicators: No roman numerals to spine base, no zip code to publisher's address on DJ back, photo of Burroughs on the upper corner of DJ back credited to Martha Rocher, and with blurbs by Mailer, Lowell and Kerouac. Book Condition: Fine: Sharp tight bright copy with Groves's faint red "Production Dept. Working Copy" stamps to ffe. A faint spot of toning to fore edge. / DJ Condition: About Fine: Sharp bright dust jacket with minor rubbing to spine edges and a very small rubbed tear to bottom corner. Original $6.00 price unclipped. Fresh mylar.

The Naked Lunch (sometimes referred to as Naked Lunch) is a novel by American writer William S. Burroughs. The book is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes, following the shifting and hallucinatory perspectives of a junkie protagonist.