PBA Galleries - Auctioneers & Appraisers

Item Details


Click to enlarge


Additional detail images: 
1   2   3  
Heading:
Author: Burroughs, William S.
Title: Naked Lunch
Place: New York
Publisher: Grove
Date: [1959]
Item # : 182376
Sale Number   364
Lot Number   320
Sale Name    
Fine Literature of the 19th & 20th Centuries, with the David Oakey Collection of Gary Snyder
Sale Date   09/27/2007
Sale Time   1pm PST
Low Estimate   $ 1,200
High Estimate   $ 1,800
* No Lots sell for less than half the Low Estimate. Some Lots may have Reserves.

This book is no longer available, but if another copy or a similar item comes up for auction, we can let you know. Please visit our Category Watch to add this title to your Want List.

Description:
Half black cloth and boards, gilt-lettered spine, top page edge black, jacket. First American Edition, first printing.
Signed by the author on the title page. Penciled note: signed at City Lights (San Francisco) on 10/20/88. First issue jacket with no zip code on rear panel and no roman numerals on lower spine near back panel. Maynard & Miles A2b. Bookplate of Alvin M. Scher.
Condition:
Short tears and creases to jacket edges, minor rubs; light shelf wear to book, a few faint stains; very good or better in like jacket.
 Bookmark and Share
previous lot   next lot