Junkie / Narcotic Agent
- New York: Ace Books, 1953
New York: Ace Books, 1953. Very Good. New York: Ace Books, 1953. First Edition. 12mo; two volumes bound tête-bêche in publisher's pictorial card wrappers; 149,[2],169pp. Moderate wear to wrapper margins, light dust soil, textblock significantly browned; overall Very Good and sound. Issued as Ace Double Books D-15.
First edition of William S. Burrough's first book, a fictionalized account of his own experiences with morphine and heroin addiction. "Not since De Quincey's The Confessions of an English Opium Eater has the finger of light shone so glaringly on the wasteland of the drug addict" (publisher's note). Bound with an abridged edition of Maurice Helbrant's 1941 memoir Narcotic Agent.
Maynard & Miles A1a.
First edition of William S. Burrough's first book, a fictionalized account of his own experiences with morphine and heroin addiction. "Not since De Quincey's The Confessions of an English Opium Eater has the finger of light shone so glaringly on the wasteland of the drug addict" (publisher's note). Bound with an abridged edition of Maurice Helbrant's 1941 memoir Narcotic Agent.
Maynard & Miles A1a.