BURROUGHS WILLIAM The Naked Lunch

Sale 2355 - Lot 16

Price Realized: $ 3,750

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,000

"MOTEL...MOTEL...MOTEL...BROKEN NEON ARABESQUE" BURROUGHS, WILLIAM. The Naked Lunch. 8vo, original green wrappers, trace of rubbing to spine foot; pictorial dust jacket after a design by Brion Gysin, spine panel slightly sunned. Paris: The Olympia Press, (1959)

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first edition, first issue, inscribed by burroughs on the title-page to Nelson Lyon. Originally priced wrappers and dust jacket, title-page with green typographic border. A near fine copy of Burroughs's enduring and provocative Beat anti-classic. True first editions of Naked Lunch in the jacket infrequently found inscribed. One of 5000 copies. Maynard & Miles A2a.