Nov 20, 2012 - Sale 2295

Sale 2295 - Lot 33

Price Realized: $ 1,200
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
"SLOW AS OPAL CHIPS THROUGH GLYCERINE" BURROUGHS, WILLIAM. The Naked Lunch. 8vo, original green wrappers; pictorial dust jacket after a design by Brion Gysin, 5-mm abrasion to upper front panel, else bright and crisp. Paris: The Olympia Press, (1959)
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first edition, first issue in originally priced wrappers and clean dust jacket, and title with green typographic border. A very well preserved copy in jacket of Burroughs's enduring and provocative Beat anti-classic. Maynard & Miles A2a.