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Sale 345: Fine Modern Literature (#345) 12/14/2006 1:00 PM PST Closed
Starts Ending 12/14/2006 1:00 PM PST

Lot #29 Naked Lunch

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Estimate: $1,500 - $2,000

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Description

Title:

Naked Lunch

Author:

Burroughs, William S.

Place Published:

New York

Publisher:

Grove Press

Date Published:

[1959]

Description:

Half black cloth and boards, gilt-lettered spine, top edge stained black, jacket. First American Edition.

Signed by Burroughs on the title page. First issue jacket with no zip code on rear panel and no roman numerals on lower spine near back panel. Only 3500 copies printed. Maynard & Miles A2b. Bookplate of Alvin M. Scher(?) on the front pastedown.

Condition:

Short tears and creases to jacket edges, a few short impressions, rubs, occasional faint and tiny stains to verso; volume leaning a bit, clear spots to spine, rubbing, otherwise clean, scarce; very good or better in like jacket.

Item#:

173958

Headline:

William Burroughs Beat Literature Modern Firsts
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