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1959 1st edition. A very good copy in the rare original dust jacket designed by Burroughs. With green decorative border round title page. One of 5000 copies printed thus. One of the big three novels of the Beat Generation. First edition with 1500 francs on DJ and NF 18 stamped on back cover. Condition: Dj in removable plastic film. A couple of chips to edges, wear along front edge of spine where the glossy coating is delaminating slightly. 1 inch tear at bottom of dj spine along rear fold. Darkening to spine. Front card cover offset from text block 1/8 inch / 2mm. pp17-32 pulling away from spine but holding. Pages clean and bright. Size: 7 x 4.5 inches / 18 x 11 cm. 226 pages. Weight: 210g.

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.