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Auction archive: Lot number 45

The Naked Lunch

Estimate
US$400 - US$700
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 45

The Naked Lunch

Estimate
US$400 - US$700
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

Title: The Naked Lunch Author: Burroughs, William S. Place: Paris Publisher: Olympia Press Date: [1959] Description: Original green wrappers with decorative border. First Edition, First Issue. First issue with green border on title-page and price of "Francs 1500" printed on lower rear wrapper cover. Without the dust jacket. Number 76 in The Traveller's Companion Series. The true first printing with only 5,000 copies produced. "Naked Lunch" was banned in the United States due to its supposed obscene nature, therefore it was first published in France. Maynard & Miles A2a. Lot Amendments Condition: Lacking dust jacket, spine sunned, light wear to wrapper edges; the three leave comprising page 91-96 have been sliced from the book with a penciled 'X' on two of the pages (perhaps in attempt to expurgate the text), stain to two pages (30 & 31); good. Item number: 227818

Auction archive: Lot number 45
Auction:
Datum:
24 May 2012
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

Title: The Naked Lunch Author: Burroughs, William S. Place: Paris Publisher: Olympia Press Date: [1959] Description: Original green wrappers with decorative border. First Edition, First Issue. First issue with green border on title-page and price of "Francs 1500" printed on lower rear wrapper cover. Without the dust jacket. Number 76 in The Traveller's Companion Series. The true first printing with only 5,000 copies produced. "Naked Lunch" was banned in the United States due to its supposed obscene nature, therefore it was first published in France. Maynard & Miles A2a. Lot Amendments Condition: Lacking dust jacket, spine sunned, light wear to wrapper edges; the three leave comprising page 91-96 have been sliced from the book with a penciled 'X' on two of the pages (perhaps in attempt to expurgate the text), stain to two pages (30 & 31); good. Item number: 227818

Auction archive: Lot number 45
Auction:
Datum:
24 May 2012
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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