Item 199Naked Lunch
The first printing with a first state jacket of the American edition of Burroughs's most famed (and infamous) work. The true first edition was an Olympia Press edition issued in Paris.
New York: Grove Press, [1959]. Dust jacket is first issue (without publisher's ZIP code on rear panel, and with $6.00 price on front flap). Publisher's black cloth and boards, spine lettered in gilt, top edge stained black, dust jacket. Dust jacket is first issue (without publisher's ZIP code on rear panel, and with $6.00 price on front flap).