Signed True First Edition The Naked Lunch
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Author: Burroughs, William S.
Title: The Naked Lunch
Place Published: Paris
Publisher:The Olympia Press
Date Published: 1959
Description:
Author: Burroughs, William S.
Title: The Naked Lunch
Place Published: Paris
Publisher:The Olympia Press
Date Published: 1959
Description:
Original green wrappers with decorative border, original laminated jacket. First Edition, First Issue.
Signed by William S. Burroughs directly on the title page in black ink. First issue with green border on title-page and price of "Francs 1500" printed on the rear dust jacket flap and on lower rear wrapper cover. Number 76 in The Traveller's Companion Series. The true first printing with only 5,000 copies produced. "Naked Lunch" was banned in the United States due to its obscene nature, therefore it was first published in France. Maynard & Miles A2a. Former owner's name on front free end paper.
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Some wear to jacket spine ends, inside had been reinforced with panels from a separate French paperback, front panel still reinforced as such, with glue residue remaining, bleeding through to front panel in a few places; volume lightly rubbed at spine ends, short splits at top and bottom of front wrappers' joint, faint glue residue on inside of wrappers where the jacket had been affixed. Very good in very good jacket.
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Signed True First Edition The Naked Lunch
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