Books

Paris, The Olympia Press, 1959. . First edition, first impression; 8vo; one or two small marks to text block, else unmarked internally; publisher's green wrappers printed in black, slight creasing to spine, with the Gysin-designed dust-jacket, slightly tanned and marked, some rubbing to head and foot of spine, light edge-wear, else very good. First edition of Burroughs masterpiece, one of the triumphs of the Beat movement.

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.