Naked Lunch

Paris: Olympia Press, 1965. Softcover. Near Fine. Reprint (originally published in 1959). Printed green wrappers. Modest edgewear, slight tear at base of the spine, very good or better, without dustwrapper. Inscribed by Burroughs to poet and publisher Charles Plymell: "for Codeine Charlie, All the best medications. William S. Burroughs RX."

[With]: the program for the Memorial Service held for Burroughs in Lawrence, Kansas in 1997. One leaf folded to make four pages, photo illustration of Burroughs on first page. Fine. Plymell has written a brief poem in the program.

[With]: a small business card sized poem (different from the one above) printed by the Bottle of Smoke Press: *Cut Praises: At William Burroughs' funeral service Lawrence, KS, Aug. 6, 1997*. Fine. Signed by Plymell.

One of the most influential novels of the post-WWII era with a notable association. Aside from his own poetry, the Kansas-born Plymell was an early 1960s confident of the Beat Generation. Burroughs praised Plymell thusly: "Plymell has as much to say about death as Hemingway did and a lot more to say about it in terms of the present generation stillborn into a world that can offer nothing." In the foreword to Plymell's *Apocalypse Rose* Allen Ginsberg described Plymell and his friends inventing the Wichita Vortex, a movement of creativity inspired by Kansas which had nevertheless "... driven a host of prophetic youths out of heartland Kansas." Plymell and his wife later founded Cherry Valley Editions, which published work by Burroughs and many others. Plymell also published *Zap Comix* #1 in 1968. A significant association.