Big Table 1

by Irving Rosenthal

$50 · Offered by Riverrun Books & Manuscripts

First edition

Chicago: Big Table Inc., Spring 1959. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. Slightly leaned, some pale staining to wrappers. Item #410204 First edition of this infamous first issue of Big Table – founded after editors Irving Rosenthal and Paul Carroll resigned from The Chicago Review in protest to harsh criticisms of their printing portions of the then-unpublished novel Naked Lunch by William S. Burrough. This first issue

• Binding: Wrappers

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