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Paris: The Olympia Press, 1959 First edition, first issue, with original price listed as "Francs 1.500" to rear wrapper (later issues have "18NF" price sticker). Original publisher's stiff green wrappers; original pictorial dust jacket designed by Burroughs. About near fine with some slight sunning, small bookseller stamp to front endpaper; dust jacket lightly nicked with minor wear, some shallow loss to the upper spine, otherwise clean and bright. A very good copy. The Naked Lunch was first published in Paris as part of The Olympia Press's The Traveller's Companion series, which included other literary classics like Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita (1955) and Henry Miller's Quiet Days in Clichy (1956), among others. The Olympia Press was well known for its liberal selection of literature; many English-speaking authors published their books with Olympia in Paris after being rejected by other publishing houses. Even so, Olympia's publisher Maurice Girdoias did not…

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.