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BURROUGHS, WILLIAM. Naked Lunch. 8vo, gilt-lettered black cloth and boards; dust jacket, short clean tear on rear panel, some overall moderate rubbing with some light surface loss at joints and tips. New York: Grove Press, 1959 [i.e. 1962]
first american edition, first printing. Published three years after the first French edition in a small run of 3500 copies; a result of its initial censorship and subsequent difficult publishing history. [Maynard and Miles, A2b].
