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Stated first printing half bound in black cloth and black boards with gold spine lettering. 8vo size, 255pp. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good dust jacket. The book has a faint soil mark to the outer edge of the page block. The front fly leaf, half-title page, and title page each h ave a faint diagonal, 3" crease at their lower edges. The first issue dust jacket has no Zip Code and no Roman Numeral on the rear panel. It has a $6.00 price on the inner front flap. The jacket has a couple of tiny frays at the head of the spine and a tiny rub mark at the top ri ght corner of the front panel. Small rubs to the corners. A clean, bri ght and attractive copy of this Literary Masterpiece.

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.