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Burroughs, William. Naked Lunch. John Calder, London, 1964.
Price: US$25.62 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original green cloth. Slight foxing to spine. Slight wear and slight soiling to spine, covers and corners. ; 13.5x21x2.3 cm; 251 pages
Seller: Literary Cat Books, Machynlleth, Powys, WALES, United Kingdom
William Burroughs.. The Naked Lunch.. John Calder Ltd, London. 1964.1st impression/ 1st ed., 1964.
Price: US$39.70 + shipping
Description: H/C with D/J, 21x14.5cm, 251 pages, 1st impression, ledges showing foxing, d/j has foxing, ripped and torn edges to entire cover, taped edges, d/j well worn, price reflective on condition.
Seller: Page After Page, Box Hill, VIC, Australia
William Burroughs. The Naked Lunch - Half leather binding. John Calder, 1964.
Price: US$192.13 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First UK edition and impression half leather binding in fine condition, no internal markings, pages clean, binding firm, please see pics, PayPal accepted, any questions please get in touch.
Seller: Setanta Books, Richmond, SURRE, United Kingdom
Burroughs, William. The Naked Lunch. Calder, 1964.
Price: US$249.77 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1964 John Calder Hardback 1st UK Edition 1st 1mpression. Very good+ clean tight binding in very good Restored Dustjacket. Brion Gysin designed dust-jacket with some later embellishments by former owner. Wonderful decorative red poppy end papers as shown.
Seller: MacKellar Art & Books, Bournemouth, United Kingdom
Burroughs, William. The Naked Lunch. John Calder in Association with Olympia Press, London, 1964.
Price: US$256.17 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: DJ very lightly rubbed with light edgewear. The very lightest bump to head of spine, else fine. Size: 8vo
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Price: US$297.76 + shipping
Description: First UK edition: octavo; hardcover, with gilt spine-titling; 251pp. Mild wear; somewhat rolled; text block edges lightly toned with some spotting and very slight insect damage; board top edges very faintly sunned and spotted; top corner of the half-title page clipped; signed in ink on the half-title. Dustwrapper is very lightly sunned along the spine panel and top edges; a small hole on the hinge near the spine panel head; minor edgewear; now backed by archival-quality white paper and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive film. Very good. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. Inscription on the half-title page reads: "With love to Jasper [Johns?] in The Round House Chalk Farm, love for ever, Bill."
Seller: lamdha books, Wentworth Falls, NSW, Australia
Burroughs (William).. The Naked Lunch. John Calder in association with Olympia Press,, 1964.
Price: US$302.61 + shipping
Description: Fine copy in very slightly sunned but exceptionally nice dust-wrapper
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
BURROUGHS, William.. The Naked Lunch.. John Calder, London., 1964.
Price: US$320.22 + shipping
Description: First U.K. edition. Octavo. pp [iv], 251. The dustwrapper design by Brion Gysin looks unnervingly like the fright-poster of Tony Blair (''New Labour New Danger'') used by the Tories in the run-up to the 1997 general election.Head of spine slightly bumped, otherwise fine in near-fine dustwrapper with a small stain at top of fold to front flap. Unusually, there is no fading to the red of the spine.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Burroughs, William. The Naked Lunch. John Calder, 1964.
Price: US$320.22 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: John Calder, 1964 8vo., original camel-coloured publisher's boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, with publisher's device to foot; together in the original unclipped dust jacket (42s.), featuring a photograph of the author with red eyes to the upper panel; pp. [v], 2-251, [i]; a little pushing to spine tips; with a couple of small spots and slight lean to the text block; a crisp copy, otherwise; the dust jacket toned and a little shelf worn, with small nicks to edges, particularly affecting head of spine; and one small closed tear (2.5cm approx) neatly repaired internally with archival tape; very good. First UK edition, originally published in Paris by the Olympia Press in 1959. The Naked Lunch can reasonably be described as Burrough's best-known work. The drug-and-sex-fuelled narrative, written in a series of vignettes, was designed to be read in any order, and became incredibly popular during the beatnik period of the 1960s. Unsurprisingly, it was subjected to a series of obscenity trials, most famously in Boston, when both Allen Ginsberg and Norman Mailer testified in its defence. In his introduction, Burroughs writes: "The title means exactly what the words say: NAKED lunch - a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork." A nice example of the UK edition, with the jacket arguably more arresting than its American counterpart.
Seller: The Plantagenet King ABA / ILAB, Birchington, KENT, United Kingdom
William Burroughs. The Naked Lunch. John Calder, 1964.
Price: US$384.26 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG FirstUK Edition, first Printing in a VG unclipped DJ.with publisher's review slip and anonymous typescript reply refusing to review the book with reasons laid in.rubbed and a little worn to DJ edges, DJ spine toned, book edges a bit stained but generally a nice square & tight copy The first UK edition of William S. Burrough's seminal and experimental work of fiction. The first UK impression, first edition. One of four-thousand copies produced. In the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.First published in Paris in July 1959 by Olympia Press, the work was not published in the US in 1962 - due to its flouting of obscenity laws - with this UK edition not appearing until two years later
Seller: Westmoor Books, Leyburn, United Kingdom
Burroughs, William. Naked Lunch. John Calder, 1964.
Price: US$1445.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: London: John Calder, 1964. First Edition. 251pp. Hardcover: NEAR FINE. Dust Wrapper: NEAR FINE. Book has a slight bow to the spine, and a few bumps to the boards. Wrapper has modest toning. Price of 42s Present on inside front flap. INSCRIBED by the author. The first UK edition of this classic novel of the Beat generation, following the Paris and U.S. issues. Basis for the 1991 David Cronenberg film featuring Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands, and Roy Scheider.
Seller: Bynx, LLC, Orlando, FL, U.S.A.
William Burroughs. The Naked Lunch (signed by author). John Calder, 1964.
Price: US$1475.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "THe Naked Lunch" by William Burroughs. John Calder, 1964 first UK edition first pinting. Book in very good condition, with first issue dust jacket in good condition with minor wear housed in mylar cover. Signed by author on title page. Signed copies of the first UK edition are rare.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
William Burroughs. The Naked Lunch - signed UK 1st. John Calder, 1964.
Price: US$1537.04 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First UK edition first impression in near fine condition, signed by william Burroughs to title page. there is minor marking to the endpages, no other internal markings, pages clean, binding firm, The jacket has some general wear, please see pics. Now in removable protective sleeve.
Seller: Setanta Books, Richmond, SURRE, United Kingdom
BURROUGHS, William S.. Naked Lunch. John Calder in association with Olympia Press, London, 1964.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First English edition. Octavo. About fine in near fine dust jacket with a little tanning and and slight creasing on spine and with few tiny edge tears. One of 4000 copies of the UK edition. Signed by Burroughs on the title page, beneath his printed name, and scarce thus.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.