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INSCRIBED COPY BURROUGHS, WILLIAM. The Naked Lunch. 8vo, original green wrappers, trace of rubbing to spine foot; pictorial dust jacket after a design by Brion Gysin, small nicks or short splits to fold corners. Paris: The Olympia Press, (1959)
first edition, first issue, inscribed by burroughs on the title-page to fellow writer John Seelye. Originally priced wrappers and dust jacket, title-page with green typographic border. A very well preserved copy in jacket of Burroughs's enduring and provocative Beat anti-classic. True first editions of Naked Lunch infrequently found inscribed. One of 5000 copies. Maynard & Miles A2a.
