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Item Details
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| Author: |
Burroughs, William S. |
| Title: |
The Naked Lunch |
| Place: |
Paris |
| Publisher: |
Olympia Press |
| Date: |
[1959] |
| Item # : |
189034 |
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| Sale Number |
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377 |
| Lot Number |
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224 |
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| Fine Literature; Beats, Bukowski & the Counter Culture; Sci-Fi & Detective Fiction |
| Sale Date |
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04/03/2008 |
| Price realized |
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$ 1920 |
| includes 20% buyer's premium |
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| Description: |
| Original green wrappers with decorative border, original laminated jacket. First Edition, First Issue. |
| First issue with green border on title-page and price of "Francs 1500" printed on the rear dust jacket flap and on lower rear wrapper cover. Number 76 in The Traveller's Companion Series. The true first printing with only 5,000 copies produced. "Naked Lunch" was banned in the United States due to its supposed obscene nature, therefore it was first published in France. Maynard & Miles A2a. |
| Condition: |
| Two miniscule tear to jacket spine head, still fine in fine jacket, very rare thus, in custom silk-covered folding box. |
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