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Manifestations, Multiple Versions, and Showstoppers: Collecting the Various Guises of
Naked Lunch
A BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHIC NARRATIVE
Brian E. C. SchottlaenderThe Audrey Geisel University Librarian
UC San Diego Libraries9 October 2009
The bibliography of William S. Burroughs
is as challenging as the man was himself.
He wrote voluminously and kaleidoscopically.
He rearranged, recycled, and reiterated obsessively.
He produced across five decades and four continents.
He was a novelist, a poet, an essayist, and a
correspondent
at home in all media. He never met a “little
magazine”
or an interviewer he wouldn’t share with.
The Naked Lunch
Paris: Olympia Press, 1959(The Traveller’s Companion
Series, No. 76)Softbound in dustjacket (no hardbound issued)
1ST EDITION1ST PRINTING
2 ISSUES
The Naked Lunch
Paris: Olympia Press, 1959(The Traveller’s Companion
Series, No. 76)Softbound
(no hardbound issued)
1ST EDITION2ND PRINTING
•Not to be confused with the “second issue” of the
first printing.
•Issued without dustjacket or decorative border
around title page, and with price of “18 francs”
printed on back cover.
Naked Lunch
New York: Grove Press, [1962], ©1959
Hardbound in dustjacket(no softbound issued)
1ST EDITION
Includes:• “Deposition: Testimony Concerning a Sickness” (originally published in
Evergreen Review)•“Letter from a Master
Addict to Dangerous Drugs”
(originally published in The British Journal of
Addiction)
1st Printing
•No zip code on rear panel of dustjacket
•No Roman numerals on rear panel of dustjacket,
near lower spine
Naked Lunch
New York: Grove Press, 1966, ©1959
(An Evergreen Black Cat Book, BC-115)
Softbound (no hardbound issued)
1ST EVERGREEN BLACK CAT ED.
Includes:• “Naked Lunch on Trial:
The Massachusetts Supreme Court Decision and Excerpts
from the Boston Trial”(an expansion of “The Boston
Trial of Naked Lunch,” originally published in
Evergreen Review)
• “Deposition: TestimonyConcerning a Sickness”
• “Letter from a Master Addictto Dangerous Drugs”
Naked Lunch
New York: Grove Press, 1984, ©1959.
Hardbound in dustjacket.
25TH ANNIVERSARY ED.
With an Introduction by Jennie Skerl.
Includes 500 numbered, signed copies issued without dustjacket in
slipcase.
Naked Lunch:
The Restored Text
New York: Grove Press, [2003?], ©2001.
Hardbound in dustjacket, and softbound.
1ST EDITION Edited by James Grauerholz
and Barry Miles.
Includes:•“Original Introductions
and Additions by the Author”
•“Burroughs Texts Annexed by the Editors”
Dead Fingers Talk
London: John Calder in association with
Olympia Press, 1963. Hardbound in dustjacket (no softbound issued).
“Dead Fingers Talk is not a book of selections but a
new novel constructed out of these three earlier books
[The Naked Lunch, The Soft Machine, and The
Ticket That Exploded] together with some new
material.”
Dustjacket reproduces an Ian Sommerville photo-collage of Burroughs’
Olympia Press editions.
Cobble Stone Gardens
Cherry Valley, N.Y.: Cherry Valley Editions,
1976.Hardbound (issued without dustjacket), and softbound.
A mixture of autobiographical fiction about the author’s youth
and family in St. Louis and material drawn from Naked
Lunch and The Wild Boys.
Doctor Benway: A [Variant]
Passage from The Naked Lunch
With a new introduction by Burroughs.
Santa Barbara, Calif.: Bradford Morrow, 1979.
Hardbound in dustjacket, and softbound.
“. . . published on the 20th anniversary of the original appearance of The Naked
Lunch . . .”
“… the first publication of the earliest known version
of the Doctor Benway chapter from
… The Naked Lunch …” [Publisher’s prospectus]
The Black Mountain Review, [No.] 7 (Autumn 1957)
“From Naked Lunch, Book III: In Search of Yage”
Published under the pseudonym William Lee
Chicago Review, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Spring 1958)
“Excerpt: Naked Lunch”
Chicago Review, Vol. 12, No. 3 (Autumn 1958)
“Chapter 2 of Naked Lunch”
Yugen, [No.] 3 (1958)
“Have You Seen Pantapon [sic] Rose?”
Excerpt from Naked Lunch
Big Table, No. 1 (Spring 1959)
“Ten Episodes from Naked Lunch”
Episodes 2 and 5 “reprinted from Chicago Review, Spring 1958”
Jabberwock, [No. 1] (1959)
“And Start West”Excerpt from Naked Lunch
New Departures, No. 1 (Summer 1959)
“The Exterminator Does a Good Job”
“Coke Bugs”Excerpts from Naked Lunch
Semina, No. 4 (1959)
“Excerpt from ‘[Have You Seen] Pantapon [sic] Rose[?]’”
Excerpt from Naked Lunch
Kulchur, [No. 1] (Spring 1960)
“The Conspiracy”“… a section from the original manuscript of
Naked Lunch. It was not available and does not appear in the otherwise complete
edition of Naked Lunch, published by Olympia Press, Paris, 1959.”
Evergreen Review, Vol. 5, No. 16 (JanuaryFebruary
1961)
“From Naked Lunch”
Swank, Vol. 8, No. 3 (July 1961)
“The Word.“ . . . first draft of a section of . . . [Naked
Lunch] . . . ”
Evergreen Review, Vol. 6, No. 22 (JanuaryFebruary 1962)
Also includes “The Cannibal Feast: [Review of] Naked Lunch by William
Burroughs” by E. S. Seldon.
“Introduction to Naked Lunch, The Soft Machine, Novia [sic; i.e.,
Nova] Express”
Avec, Vol. 1, No. 1 (1988)
“An Excerpt from ‘Word,’ the Lost Chapter of Naked
Lunch”
New Letters, Vol. 55, No. 1 (Fall 1988)
“From ‘WORD’”Excerpted from Interzone.
Includes “On Interzone by William S. Burroughs” by James Grauerholz.,
according to which “Word” “… is the direct precursor of Naked Lunch,
[although] very little of this text was used in that novel …”
Naked Lunch
Read by William S. Burroughs; produced by Hal Wilner and James Grauerholz; abridged by Nelson Lyon.
Original Score by Bill Frisell, Wayne Horvitz, and Eyvind Kang. Los Angeles: Warner Brothers Records, ©1995.
Two cassette tapes in cardboard box Three compact discs
Naked Lunch
Produced by Jeremy Thomas.
Written and directed by David Cronenberg.
(The Criterion Collection; 220) [N.p.]:
The Criterion Collection, 2003.
Two digital video discs with accompanying
booklet.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1991.