Naked Lunch

New York: Grove Press, (1959/1962). First edition, 1st printing. 8vo. 255 pp. Original charcoal cloth covered boards, stamped in gold, in original partially, roughly, price-clipped ($6.50) dust-jacket. Moderate wear to corners, and edges in particular. A few chips loss to edges, some rubbing, handling wear. Sunning fade to spine, with some crossover to panels. Protected in archival mylar. Book is tight, square and firm. Mild wear to panels, edges. Some smudges and a few nicks and bumps to panels. Page edges lightly toned, foxed, top stain still mostly vibrant. Bottom text block with pencil markings. Some smudges to pages. Interior clean and unmarked.

Dust Jacket: Good

Hardcover: Good

“The novel does not follow a clear linear plot, but is instead structured as a series of non-chronological "routines". Many of these routines follow William Lee, an opioid addict who travels to the surreal city of Interzone and begins working for the organization "Islam Inc. Naked Lunch is considered a key influence on the cyberpunk genre. William Gibson has cited it as one of the novels that most influenced his own writing. The novel was included in Time 's "100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005".