Burroughs Willliam (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Printing.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Fine in fine dustjacket (mylar-protected).

Condition: Fine. First UK Edition, first impression, with printing line '987654321'. Publisher's black boards with silver lettering to spine. Clear, removable, archival protective sleeve fitted to dust-jacket. Octavo. pp. [xxiv], 200. Cover illustration by Volker Sträter. A book in Fine condition in a Fine dust-jacket which is not price-clipped.

Condition: Fine. S. Clay Wilson (illustrator). First Edition, first impression. Publisher's black cloth with silver lettering to front board. No dust wrapper, as published. Octavo. pp. 56. Now protected in a removable Lyfjacket. A book in Fine condition. Only 500 copies were printed in hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First UK Edition, first impression. Publisher's black boards with gilt lettering to spine. Previous owner name in pen to f.f.e.p. Internally pages clean and bright, no markings. Dust jacket unclipped with light edgewear. Top edge stained red. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Condition: Fine. First Edition, first impression. Publisher's black boards with gilt lettering to spine. Top edge stained red. Clear, removable, archival protective cover fitted to dust-jacket. Octavo. pp. 188. A book in Fine condition in a Near Fine dust-jacket which is not price-clipped.

First Edition, first impression, in Great Britain. Publisher's beige paper-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine. Clear, removable, archival protective cover fitted to the illustrated dust-jacket, lettered in red and black. Octavo. pp. [4], 252. Originally published in English by Olympia Press in 1959, and subsequently by Grove Press, New York in 1962, Sugar Editore, Milan, 1963 and Editions Gallimard, Paris in 1964. A book in Near Fine condition with a slight lean and odd speckle to top edge, in a Very Good dust-jacket with one tiny nick to rear top edge, slight edge creasing and a little rubbing, but which is not price-clipped (showing '42s'). 'The Naked Lunch is a book of beauty, great difficulty and maniacally exquisite insight' - Norman Mailer. Naked Lunch is considered Burroughs' seminal work, and one of the landmark publications in the history of American literature. Extremely controversial in both its subject matter and its use of obscene language (something Burroughs recognised and intended), the book was banned in Boston and Los Angeles in the United States,and several European publishers were harassed. It was one of the more recent American books over which an obscenity trial was held. The book was banned in Boston in 1962 due to obscenity (notably child murder and acts of pedophilia), making it among the last works to be banned in that city, but that decision was reversed in 1966 by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. The Appeals Court found the book did not violate obscenity statutes, as it was found to have some social value. The hearing included testimony in support of the work by Allen Ginsberg and Norman Mailer.