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Ace, New York, 1953. First edition. Condition: Very good plus; book has slight edge wear and creasing along spine, slight darkening on interior pages. Ace Double Books D-15.Burroughs' classic "confessions of an unredeemed drug addict". His first published book. A very nice copy of this famous example of "write what you know".

Ace D Series. New York: A.A. Wynn/Ace Book, Inc. , . D-15 very good - fine, crease 1953, PBO/. William Burrough's first book (William Lee). Cover by Al Rossi. , paperback,

NY: Ace Double, 1953. [1st printing](1953) #D-15. Cover art is uncredited [Al Rossi]. Paperback original for "Junkie". Creasing; edge and corner wear with minor nicks and dings; tanning; first page erasures. In nicer condition than is usually the case.. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good.

Ace, 1953. This Ace Double (D-15) is the first publication of this title (which is Burroughs' first book). Bound with Maurice Helbrant's Narcotic Agent, this is classic Drug/Beat literature. This book is square, with a hairline crease on the lower corner of the Junkie side. Covers are still bright with a classic illustration. Very collectible condition. Scan available on request.. First Edition, Paperback Original. Mass Market Paperback. vg/vg+.

Ace, 1953. This Ace Double (D-15) is the first publication of this title (which is Burroughs' first book). Bound with Maurice Helbrant's Narcotic Agent, this is classic Drug/Beat literature. This is a very nice copy of the book. With no major creases ( a few hairline creases), and very slight rubbing of the spine. Just a few very minor blemishes keep this from being a fine copy.. First Edition, Paperback Original. Mass Market Paperback. Strong Very Good+.

New York: Ace Books, 1953. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. 16mo, 149p.; 169pp. A crisp, clean, near fine copy of this notoriously fragile mass market paperback. Notable corner crease and a small inked letter "B" to the front wrap (of "Junkie"), and very mild rubbing to extremities, but no spine cracks, and no loose or torn pages. A very nice example of Burrough's first book, SIGNED and INSCRIBED by him on the title page to Matthew Monaghan, the one-tiime director of the Gotham Book Mart gallery: "For Matthew Monaghan, all the best, William Burroughs." Laid-in is a typed letter (dated October 3, 1974) from James Grauerholz, a close friend of Burroughs who became his business manager and eventual literary executor. In the letter, Grauerholz presents the inscribed copy to Monaghan, and also asks him, "By the way, do you know where [Gregory] Corso is these days? Nobody we know seems to be able to reach him--he may be travelling." Grauerholz had been introduced to Burroughs by Allen Ginsberg, and… Read More

USA: ACE Books, 1953. A first edition, first printing. SIGNED by the Author. In publisher's original pictorial card wrappers. A superb near fine copy, the binding is square and firm, minutely rubbed to the extremities. No creasing to the spine whatsoever. The spine is unusually bright and clear. Browning to the paper, as is usual given the low quality of the paper stock used. A really sharp copy of the semi-autobiographical debut novel. SIGNED on the title page, 'William Burroughs/ for William Lee'. Most copies found are inscribed and addressed to a dedicatee - the nature of the signing is unique. For the first two editions of 'Junkie', Burroughs employed the pseudonym of William Lee. During the period in which the novel was written, the author corresponded regularly with Allen Ginsberg, and it was Ginsberg, struck by the richness of the letters, who pressed him to write the novel. Ginsberg, acting as Burroughs' agent, was instrumental in the publication of… Read More

New York: Ace Books, Inc, 1953. First Edition. Burroughs's first book, a semi-autobiographical field report from the seedy underbelly of post-war America, chronicling his experiences using and selling drugs and vacillating between addiction and recovery. While undated, this copy was inscribed in 1964, the year Burroughs made contact with Ted Berrigan, "the bearded, overweight father figure of the Lower East Side poetry scene. He was the editor of C: A Journal of Poetry, and had published one of Bill's experimental texts, "Giver of Winds Is My Name," in the summer of 1964, the first of his texts to use Egyptian glyphs. Berrigan was enthusiastic about his work so Bill gave him another text, "Fits of Nerves with a Fix," which he published that February. Berrigan arranged to publish Bill's own thirty-two-page version of Time magazine, a three-column collaged text using the cover and title page of the November 30, 1962 issue of Time, which had contained the libelous review of Naked Lunch called "King of… Read More