8vo, half black cloth over black paper boards, gilt titles, black top stain, 255pp. Fourth printing. Unclipped dust jacket (6.00) with light fading to panel edges, rubbing to rear panel. Ownership signature, toning to front endpapers. Contents clean, binding sharp and square. A handsome early printing of Burroughs’ oneiric narcotic odyssey, in the original Grove Press dust jacket comparable to the first state. Author photo, quotations from Norman Mailer, Robert Lowell, Jack Kerouac printed at rear panel. A very good copy in mylar.