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Sale 480: Fine Literature - Fine Books in All Fields (#480) 05/24/2012 11:00 AM PDT Closed
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Lot #45The Naked Lunch

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Sale 480: Fine Literature - Fine Books in All Fields (#480) 05/24/2012 11:00 AM PDT Closed
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Description

Title:

The Naked Lunch

Author:

Burroughs, William S.

Place Published:

Paris

Publisher:

Olympia Press

Date Published:

[1959]

Description:

Original green wrappers with decorative border. First Edition, First Issue.

First issue with green border on title-page and price of "Francs 1500" printed on lower rear wrapper cover. Without the dust jacket. 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 supposed obscene nature, therefore it was first published in France. Maynard & Miles A2a.

Condition:

Lacking dust jacket, spine sunned, light wear to wrapper edges; the three leave comprising page 91-96 have been sliced from the book with a penciled 'X' on two of the pages (perhaps in attempt to expurgate the text), stain to two pages (30 & 31); good.

Item#:

227818

Headline:

The Naked Lunch 1st issue, without dj Burroughs
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