{"product_id":"burroughs-wiliam-s-naked-lunch-twenty-fifth-anniversary-edition","title":"BURROUGHS, Wiliam S. Naked Lunch: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBURROUGHS, Wiliam S. \u003cem\u003eNaked Lunch: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNew York: Grove Press, 1984\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e8vo (208 x 137 mm). [*], [i-iv], xix, [xxx], 235, [236] pp. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eSigned\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e on the limitation statement, half-title, title. Quarter black cloth over black boards, spine lettered in red, red endpapers, no dustjacket as issued, in matching black cloth slipcase. Fine.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe limited, twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Burroughs’ seminal novel, number 147 of 500 hand-numbered copies signed by the author.\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis copy comes from the collection of Ira Silverberg. Burroughs and Silverberg maintained an intense, intimate friendship from their first meeting until the Beat giant’s death in 1997. Silverberg encountered Burroughs’ work when someone “gave him a copy of \u003cem\u003eNaked Lunch\u003c\/em\u003e while [he] was on cocaine for the first time in the hallway of his Bronx high school,” but they first met when Silverberg began a relationship with James Grauerholz (Burroughs’ assistant). He woke up one morning in the Bunker at 222 Bowery, and before he knew it he was convinced to move to Lawrence, Kansas with the two of them. The “paterfamilias of [his] queer family” — made up of the likes of Grauerholz, John Giorno, Carl Apfelschnitt, and others — and his “maharishi,” Silverberg would go on to become literary agent and editor until the end of the end of the author’s life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eA rare and desirable edition\u003c\/span\u003e, with an intimate association.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePROVENANCE: Ira \u003c\/span\u003eSilverberg\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eREFERENCES: Schottlaender A2j; Shoaf 2u\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e#1012\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heavenacid","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47639608000596,"sku":"1012","price":1250.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0675\/4811\/9124\/files\/1012.jpg?v=1788788729","url":"https:\/\/heavenacid.com\/products\/burroughs-wiliam-s-naked-lunch-twenty-fifth-anniversary-edition","provider":"Heavenacid","version":"1.0","type":"link"}