BURROUGHS WILLIAM Junkie

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BURROUGHS, WILLIAM. Junkie. 8vo, pictorial perfect-bound wrappers, mild edgewear, otherwise bright and square; bound dos-a-dos with Maurice Helbrant's Narcotic Agent; card slipcase. New York: Ace Books, (1953)

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first edition of burroughs' first book. ex-collection nelson lyon, inscribed to him on title-page "For Nelson Lyon from William Burroughs for William Lee 12/14/88." Presentation copy to a fellow counterculture traveller, the television and film writer Nelson Lyon, notorious for sharing John Belushi's ill-fated last night at the Chateau Marmont Hotel. Maynard & Miles A1a.