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BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S. Junkie. 8vo, pictorial perfect-bound wrappers, mild edgewear, few soft creases; first two leaves loose with chips to edges; contents browned as usual; bound dos-a-dos with Maurice Helbrant's Narcotic Agent. New York: Ace Books, (1953)
first edition of burroughs's first book, inscribed by both burroughs and allen ginsberg. Ginsberg notes on the inside of the front cover that he "nego[c]iated a poor contract between WSB and Ace Books for this text - fortunately- since they stopped reporting royalties the contract had lapsed by the time Burroughs's prose's worth was realized" and has signed it 2/7/84 at the Dalton's booksigning of Burroughs's The Place of Dead Roads.
