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The Naked Lunch William Burroughs
Science Fiction
Countercultural
Beat Generation
Novel
Modernist Literature
1959 First Edition
Hardcover
Signed
USD$2,000

Description

New York: Grove Press, 1959. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition, first printing. Signed by William S. Burroughs and inscribed to a former owner on the title page. Very Good with soiling and light wear to binding. Pages toned with light soiling to several early pages. In a Very Good first issue dust jacket with original $6.00 price present and without publisher's zip code on the rear panel, which is edge worn with tears and small chips, fading to spine and a small stain at the foot. A nice copy, signed by the author.

About The Naked Lunch

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.