Naked Lunch

Published in 1959 to much outrage, but deemed "a masterpiece. A cry from hell, a brutal, terrifying, & savagely funny book that swings between uncontrolled hallucination & fierce, exact satire." This is the Fourth Printing of that First Edition from the leading publisher of Beat & avant-garde fiction at the time, Grove Press in Greenwich Village. In 255 pages, including an excerpt from the British Journal of Addiction, to which Burroughs sent a letter to the editor detailing his own drug use & current abstinence. Hardcover 8v has half black cloth covered boards & black matte paper over the remaining half, with spine lettered in gilt. Condition is VG+: very clean inside & out save for some light spotting to lower outside edges of the text block. Binding strong & straight, corners crisp. Mild offsetting to endpapers & tanning to outer page edges, else unmarked. The unclipped DJ is also VG+, with a tad of rubbing & slight chipping to both ends of spine; nicely protected in new clear mylar cover Free! Our photos depict the exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.

Product Info

Publisher: Grove Press

Year: 1959

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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Country: United States