Books

Tokyo: Kawade Shobo Shinsha, 1965. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First Japanese edition. Translated by Nobuo Ayukawa. Illustrated with five drawings by “Y.K.” 12mo. 349pp. Fine in crimson cloth with publisher's device stamped in gilt on the boards and spine, silk bookmark and a couple tiny splashmarks on the text block with fine printed wraparound band (obi) and in near fine printed plastic dustwrapper light rubbed. Laid in is a double-sided publisher's promotional insert wtih featuring photo of the author and brief biography. The first book by Burroughs translated into Japanese, though heavily censored. Copies are surprisingly uncommon with *OCLC* locating five copies, with one in Japan.

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.