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In this complete and unexpurgated edition of this book about drug addiction, William S. Burroughs depicts the addict's life: his hallucinations, his ghostly nocturnal wanderings, his strange sexuality, and his hunger for the needle.
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9781568495378 | Buccaneer Books, December 1, 1994, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In this complete and unexpurgated edition of this book about drug addiction, William S.
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9780802120427 | Grove Pr, October 2, 2012, cover price $15.00
9780140282696 | New edition (Gardners Books, February 25, 1999), cover price $16.20 | About this edition: In this novel about drug addiction, William S.
9780140043518 | 1 edition (Penguin USA, November 1, 1985), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: In this complete and unexpurgated edition of this book about drug addiction, William S.
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9780140864458 | Penguin/Highbridge, May 1, 1997, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A drug addict describes his unwillingness to reject narcotics and the lifestyle his habit has created for him.
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9780061711428 | Ecco Pr, February 7, 2012, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: William S.
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9780062088864 | Lgr edition (Harpercollins, February 7, 2012), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: A long anticipated collection of over 300 of Burroughs’s letters from the early ’60s through the mid ’70s, written to such recipients as Allen Ginsberg, Paul Bowles, and the surrealist artist Brion Gysin, these letters shed remarkable light on the writer’s artistic process and literary experimentation, as well as his complex personal life, in this formative period.
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9780143117834, titled "Queer: 25th Anniversary Edition" | 25 anv edition (Penguin USA, August 31, 2010), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The definitive 25th-anniversay edition of Burroughs's legendary second novel.
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9780912652467 | Blue Wind Pr, June 1, 1979, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: (the movie got its title from this earlier book)
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9781847491008 | Trafalgar Square, November 1, 2009, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: First published in 1972, this verse collection ranges over multiple years and includes the lyricism of early love poetry along with reflections on drug culture and penetrating comments on contemporary figures and events.
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9781433259647, titled "Naked Lunch: The Restored Text: Library Edition" | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, February 1, 2009), cover price $54.95
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9781433249129 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, November 11, 2008), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Now, for the first time, this legendary collaboration between two of the twentieth century's most influential writers is being released.
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9781433249112 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, November 11, 2008), cover price $60.00 | About this edition: This unique collaboration between two of the twentieth century's most influential writers is based on a true event in their lives.
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9780814210802 | 1 edition (Ohio State Univ Pr, December 17, 2007), cover price $129.95 | About this edition: In late summer 1953, as he returned to Mexico City after a seven-month expedition through the jungles of Ecuador, Colombia, and Peru, William Burroughs began a notebook of final reflections on his four years in Latin America.
9780814291597 | 2 cdr edition (Ohio State Univ Pr, December 17, 2007), cover price $9.95
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9781889307152 | 3 edition (Re-Search Pubns, January 10, 2008), cover price $20.00
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9780670813513 | Viking Pr, August 30, 2010, cover price $19.95
9780140094558 | Penguin USA, May 31, 2008, cover price $11.00
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9781933368382, titled "Cursed from Birth: The Short, Unhappy Life of William S. Burroughs Jr." | Soft Skull Pr, August 30, 2006, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: An intimate portrait of the son of the best-selling counterculture author draws on his final journals, poems, and correspondence to offer insight into the factors that challenged his life, from his relationship with his father to his tragic personal losses.
9780802137791 | Grove Pr, June 1, 2003, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: The late son of famed writer William S.
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9780802116390 | 1 edition (Grove Pr, April 1, 2003), cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Bill Lee, an addict and hustler, travels to Mexico and then Tangier in order to find easy access to drugs, and ends up in the Interzone, a bizarre fantasy world, in an edition that features restored text, archival material, and an essay on psychoactive drugs.
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9780007204441 | New edition (Harpercollins Pub Ltd, May 3, 2005), cover price $14.30 | also contains Naked Lunch: The Restored Text | About this edition: The anarchic, phenomenally strong-selling classic from the godfather of the Beats, featuring for the first time the restored text, all the accompanying essays, and newly discovered material from the original manuscript.
9780802140180 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, February 1, 2004), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Bill Lee, an addict and hustler, travels to Mexico and then Tangier in order to find easy access to drugs, and ends up in the Interzone, a bizarre fantasy world, in a commemorative edition that features restored text, archival material, Burroughs's own later introduction to the book, and his essay on psychoactive drugs.
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9781433259685 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, February 1, 2009), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Naked Lunch is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century, a book that redefined not just literature but American culture.
9781433259654 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, February 1, 2009), cover price $70.00 | About this edition: Naked Lunch is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century, a book that redefined not just literature but American culture.
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9780140094534 | Penguin USA, December 1, 2004, cover price $11.95
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9780802119261 | 50 anv edition (Grove Pr, November 1, 2009), cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Naked Lunch is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century, a book that redefined not just literature but American culture.
9781568495385 | Buccaneer Books, February 1, 1992, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Bill Lee, an addict-hustler, travels to Mexico and Tangiers in order to find easy access to drugs and ends up in the Interzone, a bizarre fantasy world.
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9780802132956 | Reissue edition (Grove Pr, January 1, 1992), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Bill Lee, an addict-hustler, travels to Mexico and then Tangier in order to find easy access to drugs, and ends up in the Interzone, a bizarre fantasy world
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9781433259678 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, February 1, 2009), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Naked Lunch is one of the most important novels of the twentieth century, a book that redefined not just literature but American culture.
9781570423802 | Hachette Audio, December 1, 1995, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Amazon.
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9781570422201 | Baker & Taylor Video, December 1, 1995, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: Bill Lee, a drug addict and hustler, travels to Mexico and then Tangiers in order to find easy access to drugs, and ends up in the Interzone, a bizarre fantasy world.
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9780613706186 | Turtleback Books, December 1, 2003, cover price $22.55 | About this edition: Bill Lee, an addict-hustler, travels to Mexico and then Tangier in order to find easy access to drugs, and ends up in the Interzone, a bizarre fantasy world
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9780142003169 | 50 anv edition (Penguin USA, April 1, 2003), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Before his 1959 breakthrough, Naked Lunch, an unknown William S.
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9781852424060 | Reprint edition (Serpents Tail, September 1, 1995), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Tells the story of Captain Mission who set up a 'free pirate' settlement on the west coast of Madagascar and attempted to protect the gentle lemurs that also lived there
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9781852424572 | Serpents Tail, September 1, 2002, cover price $11.00 | About this edition: Ghost of Chance is an adventure story set in the jungle of Madagascar and filled with the obsessions that mark the work of the man who Norman Mailer once called, ‘the only American writer possessed by genius.
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9780614149654 | Semiotext, April 1, 2002, cover price $14.00
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9780670813490 | Viking Pr, February 1, 2002, cover price $24.95
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9780670844654 | Viking Pr, October 1, 1992, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: A meditation on the long and mysterious relationship between cats and their human hosts tracing back to the Egyptian cult of the 'animal other' and includes anecdotes about the author's own cats
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9780142000250 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, January 1, 2002), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: A meditation on the long and mysterious relationship between cats and their human hosts by one of America's leading literary outlaws traces back to the Egyptian cult of the 'animal other' and includes anecdotes about the author's own cats.
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9781584350101 | Semiotext, December 1, 2000, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Burroughs Live gathers all the interviews, both published and unpublished, given by William Burroughs, as well as conversations with well-known writers, artists, and musicians such as Tenessee Williams, Timothy Leary, Patti Smith, Keith Richards, Allen Ginsberg, Brion Gysin, and Gregory Corso.
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9780030589980 | Limited edition (Henry Holt & Co, April 1, 1981), cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Several familiar Burroughs characters--Dr.
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9780312278465 | 1 edition (Picador USA, May 1, 2001), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: While young men wage war against an evil empire of zealous mutants, the population of this modern inferno is afflicted with the epidemic of a radioactive virus.
9780805039559 | Reissue edition (Henry Holt & Co, March 1, 1995), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: While young men wage war against an evil empire of zealous mutants, the population of this modern inferno is afflicted with the epidemic of a radioactive virus.
9780805017632 | Owl Books, March 15, 1982, cover price $11.00 | About this edition: While young men wage war against an evil empire of zealous mutants, the population of this modern inferno is afflicted with the epidemic of a radioactive virus.
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9781568495392 | Buccaneer Books, December 1, 1994, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A good old-fashion shoot-out in the American West of the frontier days serves as the springboard for this hyperkinetic adventure in which gunslingers, led by Kim Carson, fight for galactic freedom.
9780030704161 | Limited edition (Henry Holt & Co, February 1, 1984), cover price $100.00 | About this edition: William Seward Hall, who writes westerns under the name of Kim Carsons--a man with a mission to reorganize Earth into a more meaningful world--takes part in a shoot-out in the Boulder, Colorado, cemetery
9780030632563 | Henry Holt & Co, January 1, 1984, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: William Seward Hall, who writes westerns under the name of Kim Carsons--a man with a mission to reorganize Earth into a more meaningful world--takes part in a shoot-out in the Boulder, Colorado, cemetery
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9780312278656 | Picador USA, May 1, 2001, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A good old-fashion shoot-out in the American West of the frontier days serves as the springboard for this hyperkinetic adventure in which gunslingers, led by Kim Carson, fight for galactic freedom.
9780805039542 | Reissue edition (Henry Holt & Co, March 1, 1995), cover price $12.00
9780805015416, titled "Place of Dead Roads" | Owl Books, September 15, 1985, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Holt Owl Books Trade Paperback with 306 pages.
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9780802116574 | Grove Pr, February 1, 2000, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Documenting the final months of this literary and countercultural icon, personal reflections confront the state of the human race and a host of political and social ills, while meditating on his own aproaching death.
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9780802137784 | Reprint edition (Grove Pr, February 1, 2001), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Documenting the final months of this literary and countercultural icon, these extremely personal reflections confront U.
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9780802116291 | Har/com edition (Grove Pr, December 1, 1998), cover price $27.50 | About this edition: A collection of the American literary innovator's essential writings
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9780802136947 | Grove Pr, June 1, 2000, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: With the publication of Naked Lunch in 1959, William Burroughs abruptly brought international letters into the postmodern age.
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