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Naked Lunch
by Burroughs, William S
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- Seller
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La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, New York, U.S.A.: Grove Press, 1959. First Edition Later Printing 4th Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. Published in 1959 to much outrage, but deemed "a masterpiece. A cry from hell, a brutal, terrifying, & savagely funny book that swings between uncontrolled hallucination & fierce, exact satire." This is the Fourth Printing of that First Edition from the leading publisher of Beat & avant-garde fiction at the time, Grove Press in Greenwich Village. In 255 pages, including an excerpt from the British Journal of Addiction, to which Burroughs sent a letter to the editor detailing his own drug use & current abstinence. Hardcover 8v has half black cloth covered boards & black matte paper over the remaining half, with spine lettered in gilt. Condition is VG+: very clean inside & out save for some light spotting to lower outside edges of the text block. Binding strong & straight, corners crisp. Mild offsetting to endpapers & tanning to outer page edges, else unmarked. The unclipped DJ is also VG+, with a tad of rubbing & slight chipping to both ends of spine; nicely protected in new clear mylar cover Free! Our photos depict the exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Gargoyle Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022894
- Title
- Naked Lunch
- Author
- Burroughs, William S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition Later Printing 4th Printing
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Place of Publication
- New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1959
- Keywords
- beat underground drug addiction fiction sixties fifties novel
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature/Literary Criticism/Poetry/Short Stories; Addictions/Eating Disorders/Recreational Drugs;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Gargoyle Books
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La Mesa, California
About Gargoyle Books
On-line booksellers since 1996
Glossary
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- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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