-  FIRST US PAPERBACK EDITION -

 NAKED LUNCH 
By William S. Burroughs 



[FIRST EDITION] New York: Grove Press, Inc, New York, 1966. Softcover in boldly lettered wraps. Stated First Evergreen Black Cat Edition / First Printing with BC-115 and $1.25 price on front cover. Measures 7 x 4-1/4 inches; xlviii (the Massachusetts Supreme Court decision plus excerpts from the Boston Trial) + 255 pages. With original Grove Press postcard still bound in and red edge stain strong.

This book was initially banned in the US on obscenity charges and banned in England as well and thus first published in English in France. During the year of this edition's printing the US courts finally removed the obscenity charges. 

Some soiling, spotting on covers, light toning to text and one shallow crease on the spine, otherwise tight and clean. No owner marking, NOT EX-LIBRARY.




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