The Naked Lunch
- Paris: The Olympia Press, 1959
Paris: The Olympia Press, 1959. Very Good/Very Good. Paris: The Olympia Press, 1959. First Edition, Second State. Mass market paperback; 226pp. Publisher’s white and purple dust jacket with revised price on rear cover; Olympia’s usual olive green wrappers and green ornamental border on title page. Dust jacket toned and bumped, especially at spine ends. Dampstain at spine tail touches publisher name and book title but does not obstruct text. Wrappers faded along edges and spine; spine creased and slightly bowed. Dampstain permeates. Binding sound. Textblock toned; endsheets and interior pages clean. A Very Good overall copy.
5000 copies printed, a number of which were later stamped over with a new price. The now-somewhat-uncommon dust jackets were issued a few months after the book’s initial release, but not used on subsequent printings. Issued as the Traveller's Companion Series No. 76
Kearney 5.76.1.
5000 copies printed, a number of which were later stamped over with a new price. The now-somewhat-uncommon dust jackets were issued a few months after the book’s initial release, but not used on subsequent printings. Issued as the Traveller's Companion Series No. 76
Kearney 5.76.1.