The Naked Lunch

by William S. Burroughs

$250 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

London: John Calder in association with Olympia Press, 1964. Modern literature FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo 21 x 15cm , pp. 4 ; 251; 1 . Publisher's cream cloth, gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket, priced at 42s. Lightly handled, jacket mildly toned to extremities with a few small nicks. The 'Beat' writer's most controversial work, being subject to a court case after it was challenged as being in violation of the American sodomy laws. Described by

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