Almost thirty-five years after it was written, the publication of a legendary novel - at first due to the reluctance of publishers to touch a book with such a candid homosexual content, and later due to its author's own reluctance to make public the painful events it recounts. Queer is a love story - the account of William Lee's painfully circular seduction of Eugene Allerton in the Mexico City of the 1940's. In his introduction Burroughs discussed frankly and courageously the shattering event that happened after the occurrences described in Queer, and how this event has haunted his life and affected his work

1st Picador edition, 1986.

Hardcover in dustjacket which has signs on inside of previous tape from protective plastic cover. Free endpapers cut out for unknown reason. One library stamp to verso title page appears to be only other sign of provenance. Slight yellowing edge of pages, 122 pages.