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Junky burroughs6/30/2023 ![]() It's not a book that seems likely to gain a wide audience anytime soon. There are no notes or other apparatus and the pages are falling out. It has an austere red, faux-leather cover with the title picked out in gold on the front. Back then, it was re-released in the scholarly series Addiction in America, alongside such intriguing sounding titles as Inebriety (1888), Drugs That Enslave (1881), Morbid Craving For Morphia (1878) and Japan and the Opium Menace (1942). I don't have that kind of money, but I did manage to get hold of an Arno Press edition from 1981. ![]() Still, if you've got a spare few thousand pounds, you can pick up a copy of the Ace Original paperback and read Narcotic Agent alongside the original Junky. Junky remains in print as a Penguin Classic, lovingly adorned with appendices, and with a superb scholarly introduction by Oliver Harris. ![]() They only had to turn the book over and start reading Narcotic Agent, the account of former policeman Maurice Helbrant that came 69'd with Junky. Readers of the first printed version of the novel didn't have far to look if their curiosity about Burroughs' adversaries was aroused. ![]()
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