Almuerzo Desnudo [Naked Lunch]
Buenos Aires: Ediciones Siglo Veinte, [circa 1962]. Softcover. First Argentine edition. Translated by Anibal Leal. Tiny hole in the front fly, else fine in self-wrappers. More
Buenos Aires: Ediciones Siglo Veinte, [circa 1962]. Softcover. First Argentine edition. Translated by Anibal Leal. Tiny hole in the front fly, else fine in self-wrappers. More
Louisville, Kentucky: White Fields Press, 1992. Unbound. Pictorial broadside. Illustrated with a portrait of Burroughs by Allen Ginsberg. Single sheet printed on glossy stock paper, measuring 10" x 22". Fine. One of 500 numbered copies. Published in Heaven Poster Series #10. More
San Francisco: City Lights Books, (1984). Softcover. First edition. Illustrated. Slightly age-toned else fine in glossy wrappers. More
[New York]: Viking, (1992). Softcover. Uncorrected proof. 94pp. Glossy pictorial wrappers. Very faint discoloration on front cover, a couple tiny bumps on rear wrap near the crown, near fine. Burroughs' discourse on cats with an account of his unexpected friendship with an orphaned cat named Ruski. More
Santa Barbara: Bradford Morrow, 1979. Softcover. First edition, wrappered issue., With a New Introduction by the Author. Octavo. [42]pp. Frontispiece by K. Anders. Light blue pictorial wrappers printed in red. Light age-toning, else about fine. One of 324 numbered copies (of a total edition of 500 copies), this is copy..... More
New York: Tony Shafrazi Gallery, 1987. Unbound. Illustrated program. Single printed cream-colored card leaf folded to make ten pages. Illustrated with photograph of Burroughs by Kate Simon, and images of some of the works on offer, essentially painted plywood with gunshot holes. More
New York: The Viking Press, (1973). Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 168pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. More
Tokyo: Kawade Shobo Shinsha, (1965). Hardcover. First Japanese edition. Translated by Nobuo Ayukawa. Illustrated with five drawings by “Y.K.” 12mo. 349pp. Fine in crimson cloth with publisher's device stamped in gilt on the boards and spine, silk bookmark and a couple tiny splashmarks on the text block with fine printed..... More
(New York): Viking, (1989). Hardcover. First edition. Edited and with an introduction by James Grauerholz. Remainder mark on bottom edge else fine in fine dust jacket. A section of *The Naked Lunch,* discovered among Allen Ginsberg's papers, that had largely been eliminated from the finished manuscript. More
(New York): Viking, (1993). Hardcover. First edition. Edited and with an introduction by Oliver Harris. Foxing on the page edges, near fine in near fine dustwrapper with a little sunning at the edges of the spine. More
(New York): Viking, (1993). Hardcover. First edition. Edited and with an introduction by Oliver Harris. 472pp. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with slight toning, and modest wear at the spine ends. More
(New York): Viking, (1993). Softcover. First edition. Edited and with an introduction by Oliver Harris. 386pp. Printed wrappers. Spine sunned with uneven sunning on front cover, near fine. More
New York: Grove Press, (1984). Hardcover. Twenty-Fifth Anniversary edition. Introduction by Jennie Skerl. Fine copy in fine dust jacket. Signed by William S. Burroughs on the title page. First published by the Olympia Press in 1959, this twenty-fifth anniversary edition contains a nineteen-page introduction by Jennie Skerl. More
New York: Grove Press, (1966). Softcover. First American paperback edition. Covers are unevenly dust soiled, with creases on both covers, else very good. Signed by William S. Burroughs on the titlepage. The first American paperback edition, with new material added about the 1965 Boston obscenity trial of the book, "Naked..... More
New York: Grove Press, (1964). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a couple of tiny tears. Publisher's File Copy stamped on the front and rear fly leaves, and the foredge: "Production Dept. Working Copy Do Not Remove – Grove Press Inc. Production Department." More
New York: Grove Press, (1964). Hardcover. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. More
New York: Grove Press, (1964). Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 187pp. Miniscule ink number on first page else fine in very good or better rubbed dust jacket with light edgewear, most notably two small tears but with accompanying long crease at the bottom of the rear panel. More
New York: Grove Press, Inc., (1967). Hardcover. Second Printing. Fine in a very slightly age-toned, else fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by Burroughs to Ruth Ford: "For Ruth Ford, William S. Burroughs." Ford, the Mississippi-born sister of surrealist author Charles Henri Ford, was a beautiful model and actress, first in Orson Welles's..... More
New York: Grove Press, 1962. Softcover. Promotional brochure. 16pp. Stapled wrappers. Fine. An excerpt from *Naked Lunch*, distributed by Grove Press, along with comments from various writers including Terry Southern, E.S. Selden, John Ciardi, Norman Mailer, Robert Lowell, and Jack Kerouac. This copy Signed by Burroughs on the front wrap..... More
New York: Ace Books, (1953). Softcover. First edition. Paperback original. Light edgewear, creases to the upper front corner, and light reading crease on the spine exactly lining up with the black and red title boarders, very good or better. An attractive copy of Burroughs' fragile and uncommon first book, bound..... More
New York: Giorno Poetry Systems / Limelight, [1983]. Unbound. Single sheet folded in half to make four pages. Illustrated with two color photographs of Burroughs. A bit of rubbing at the fold, else near fine. Scarce. More
Paris: Olympia Press, 1962. Softcover. First edition. Small quarto. 80pp. About near fine in rubbed illustrated wraps. The first issues of this avant-garde literary periodical with contributions from William S. Burroughs ("Ten Episodes from The Soft Machine"), J.P. Donleavy ("One Suppressed Chapter from The Ginger Man"), Lawrence Durrell, and Terry..... More
Paris: Olympia Press, 1962. Softcover. First edition. Small quarto. 80pp. Wraps lightly rubbed and soiled, very good. The first issue of this avant-garde literary periodical with contributions from William S. Burroughs ("Ten Episodes from The Soft Machine"), J.P. Donleavy ("One Suppressed Chapter from The Ginger Man"), Lawrence Durrell, and Terry..... More
Charlottesville: Published for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia by the University Press of Virginia, (1978). Hardcover. First edition. 242pp. Light rubbing and edgewear, near fine, without a dust jacket as issued. More
Dickerson, MD: Quill & Brush, 2004. Hardcover. 2004 (current) edition. 23 page bibliography and price-guide. A thorough guide to identifying and collecting first editions, advance copies, limited editions, etc. The AUTHOR PRICE GUIDES (APGs) include a facsimile of the author's signature; a brief biographical sketch; an up-to-date list of the..... More