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NAKED LUNCH
by William S. Burroughs
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good plus
- Seller
-
Chamblee, Georgia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
US: Grove Press, 1959. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good plus. First Edition. First Printing. First State dust jacket. Signed by Burroughs on a pasted in bookplate on first free end paper. Pages are unmarked by previous owners, though end papers are very lightly soiled. Binding is tight. Spine has slight lean. Boards are clean, light rubbing, minor edgewear. Text block is lightly soiled. Dust jacket has some slight edgewear, creases and closed tears at spine ends and corners. Dust jacket covers are scuffed and rubbed, back cover is browned, faint discoloration due to moisture stain on back cover and spine end. Dust jacket is in a protective mylar cover.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Atlanta Vintage Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20844
- Title
- NAKED LUNCH
- Author
- William S. Burroughs
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good plus
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Place of Publication
- US
- Date Published
- 1959
- Keywords
- Literature, Drug addicts--Fiction, Recovering addicts--Fiction, Alienation (Social psychology)--Fiction, Drug withdrawal symptoms--Fiction
Terms of Sale
Atlanta Vintage Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Atlanta Vintage Books
Biblio member since 2007
Chamblee, Georgia
About Atlanta Vintage Books
Welcome to Atlanta Vintage Books, serving book lovers locally and worldwide for over 30 years. Our 5,000 square foot book store houses over 70,000 vintage, rare and out of print books. You'll be greeted with a smile when you enter but left alone as you browse. Our staff is friendly, helpful and knowledgeable. Special orders are happily accommodated, as hard-to-find and out-of-print editions are a specialty. Our store is light and airy with plate glass windows letting in plenty of natural light and wonderfully decorated with antique display cases, old barrister bookcases, and wood book shelves. The wide aisles and scattered seating make browsing a joy. You'll wonder where the time went.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First State
- used in book collecting to refer to a book from the earliest run of a first edition, generally distinguished by a change in some...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
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