Burroughs, Willliam
												
							
								| Title | The Naked Lunch | 
														
								| Date | London 1964 | 
																					
								| Publisher | John Calder (Publishers) Ltd in association with Olympia Press | 
													
												Description
						First Edition, first impression, in Great Britain. Publisher's beige paper-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Clear, removable, archival protective cover fitted to the illustrated dust-jacket, lettered in red and black. Octavo. pp. [4], 252. Originally published in English by Olympia Press in 1959, and subsequently  by Grove Press, New York in 1962, Sugar Editore, Milan, 1963 and Editions Gallimard, Paris in 1964.
												Condition
						A book in Near Fine condition with a slight lean and odd speckle to top edge, in a Very Good dust-jacket with one tiny nick to rear top edge, slight edge creasing and a little rubbing, but which is not price-clipped (showing '42s').