BURROUGHS, WILLIAM

The Traveller´s Companion series published by the Olympia Press. 1959 226p.Sider. Soft cover in dust jacket. Nice copy. But 1,8 x 1 cm missing in the back of dust jacket Printed in France. First edition, first issue of this rare and important book. No. 76 in the Traveller's Companion Series. With all first impression points. Price of 1500 francs on inside rear flap of the dust jacket and same price quoted on back af cover. Green border around the title page.
This is a really fine copy with bright green wraps. No markings or inscriptions or bumping. Complete with original first issue dust jacket. --- Naked Lunch (sometimes The Naked Lunch) isa 1959 novel by American writer William S. Burroughs. The book is structured as a series of loosely connected vignettes, intended by Burroughs to be read in any order. The novel follows the junkie William Lee, who takes on various aliases, from the U.S. to Mexico, eventually to Tangier and the dreamlike Interzone. The novel was highly controversial, and its supposed obscenity led to a series of high-profile legal challenges. The novel remains divisive, but both admirers and critics recognize it as one of the defining works of the Beat generation. In 1957, Allen Ginsberg submitted the Naked Lunch manuscript to Olympia Press, which had a reputation for publishing controversial novels such as Tropic of Cancer and Lolita. Olympia rejected the manuscript, arguing that it was inaccessible and lacked structure.