The Naked Lunch. London: John Calder, 1964. First U.K Edition. Plain cloth boards, in original pictorial dust jacket. Light toning to jacket & fore-edges, otherwise a nice bright copy.

The first British edition of Burroughs’ seminal and controversial masterpiece, published two years after the Olympia Press edition in Paris and preceding the American edition.

This edition is significant for containing an Appendix by Burroughs written specifically for this printing, “Letter from a Master Addict to Dangerous Drugs,” which served as both a defence and a framing device for the book’s notorious content.