Hamri's copy of the Calder & Boyars "The Naked Lunch" (1964)

London, England: John Calder (book, primary, inscribed, association), 1964.
8.25" x 5.75" x 1", 252 pages, hardcover with dust-jacket.

The Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs, as published by Calder & Boyars (London, England) in a hardcover edition in 1964.  This includes the introductory essay "Deposition: Testimony Concerning a Sickness", and includes, as an appendix, the "Letter from a Master Addict to Dangerous Drugs", as published in The British Journal of Addiction, volume 53, number 2, January 1957.

This specific copy, which is a later impression (6th, 1970) of the Calder & Boyars edition, belonged to Hamri of The Master Musicians of Joujouka. It is inscribed to Hamri on the title page: "For Hamri amigo / de muchos anos / all the best / William Burroughs."  This was acquired from writer Will Lasky (Brooklyn, New York) from his late father's collection.

Maynard & Miles A2c.
Shoaf I.2t.
Schottlaender v4.A2.D.

Contents: 

• "Introduction: deposition: testimony concerning a sickness"
• "I can feel the heat closing in..."
• "Benway"
• "Joselito"
• "the black meat"
• "hospital"
• "lazarus go home"
• "hassan's rumpus room"
• "campus of interzone university"
• "a. j.'s annual party"
• "meeting of international conference of technological psychiatry"
• "the market"
• "ordinary men and women"
• "islam incorporated and the parties of interzone"
• "the county clerk"
• "interzone"
• "the examination"
• "have you seen pantopon rose"
• "coke bugs"
• "the exterminator does a good job"
• "the algebra of need"
• "hauser and o'brien"
• "atrophied preface"
• Appendix: "Letter from a Master Addict to Dangerous Drugs"