JUNKIE / NARCOTIC AGENT

by William Lee, Maurice Helbrant, pseud. of William S.

$3,250 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

New York: Ace Books, Inc., 1953. First Edition. Burroughs's first book, a semi-autobiographical field report from the seedy underbelly of post-war America, chronicling his experiences using and selling drugs and vacillating between addiction and recovery. A cornerstone work of the Beat Generation and a high-point of drug literature, always plentiful in the marketplace, but less so in anything approaching collector's

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