8vo. Publisher's green printed wrappers ("New Price NF 18" stamped on lower cover); original lacquered dust-jacket with design by Brion Gysin (small chip to top edge of front panel).

FIRST EDITION, second issue, "Francs: 1500" on lower wrapper and title with green typographic border, but with "New Price" inkstamp on lower wrapper. Five-thousand copies of The Naked Lunch were published by Olympia in Paris, but the dust jacket was not issued until some months after the work was first published; due to obscenity laws, Burroughs' work would not be published in the United States until 1962. Maynard & Miles A2a.