Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1959. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Like New/Dust Jacket Missing. 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): 7¾" x 9¾" tall. 255 pp. Clean, fresh copy with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text. No dj, missing. Previous owner's name inscribed on first front-end page. NAKED LUNCH by William Burroughs Although known in this country only through excerpts in a number of quarterlies, NAKED LUNCH already has the underground reputation of an authentic literary masterpiece of the twentieth century. It has been more widely discussed and written about than almost any other book before its full publication. John Ciardi in The Saturday Review described it as follows: "[NAKED LUNCH] is writing of an order that may be cleanly defended not only as a masterpiece of its own genre, but as a monumentally moral descent into the hell of narcotic addiction. . . . What Burroughs has written is a many-leveled vision of horror. At times the surfaces of the writing… Read More