The Soft Machine

First UK edition. 188pp. Hardback in dust jacket. A couple of small spots to tail-edge of text block. Jacket rubbed and slightly sunned to spine. Jacket design by Kaye Bellman.*** Burroughs’ “immediate successor to The Naked Lunch”. It was originally published by The Olympia Press in 1961. A second version (very different from the Olympia Press edition) was published in the USA by Grove Press in 1966. Burroughs reworked the novel again for this Calder edition, adding roughly 20 pages of new material and restoring some passages discarded from the Grove version, amongst other changes.