Item #40019 The Naked Lunch. William S. BURROUGHS.
The Naked Lunch.
The Naked Lunch.
The Naked Lunch.
The Naked Lunch.
The Naked Lunch.
The Naked Lunch.
The Naked Lunch.
The Naked Lunch.

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The Naked Lunch.

London: John Calder in association with Olympia Press, November 1964. First UK edition. 8vo. 252pp. SIGNED by William Burroughs on the title page.

Dustwrapper cover photograph of the author by Ian Sommerville.

Calder used the Olympia version of the book’s title rather than that of the American Grove Press edition of 1962, re-instating the definite article (in his letters Burroughs usually referred to the novel as “Naked Lunch”, but “The Naked Lunch” is how it is known in the UK). The contents are the same as those in the American edition, which differ quite extensively from the Olympia Press edition by incorporating excised material and adding “Deposition: Testimony Concerning a Sickness” and “Letter From a Master Addict to Dangerous Drugs”.

Small mark to fore-edges, o/w Very Good plus in slightly rubbed, marked and edge-worn dw. (not price-clipped), with small loss at crown of spine panel and a 2cm. closed tear to upper edge of lower panel (a pristine dustwrapper from a later impression is also included).

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