The Soft Machine

First UK paperback edition. 188pp. Limps card wrapps; cover design by Kaye Bellman. Covers rubbed and faded; shallow crease to top- leading-corner of upper panel. Binding tight and square. A very good copy. Published simultaneously in hardback. (Also available.) *** 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 the Calder edition, adding roughly 20 pages of new material and restoring some passages discarded from the Grove version, amongst other changes.