Love & Napalm: Export U.S.A. [U.K. title: The Atrocity Exhibition]

New York: Grove Press, 1972. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Grove Press, 1972. Stated First American Edition, First Printing. Octavo (21cm); [157]pp. Illustrated dust jacket with $5.95 price intact; boards in black cloth with red and copper lettering to spine. Jacket clipped at lower corner of front flap with no loss to text; rubbed along edges with some shallow brown staining along bottom edge of rear panel and flap. Boards are square with a bit of fading along edges. Light foxing to endpapers and pages edges, with interior unmarked. Binding is sound.

First published in the Germany as Gruweltentoonstelling (1969) and Liebe + Napalm (1970), and in the U.K. as The Atrocity Exhibition (1970), a 1970 Doubleday edition was printed but then Nelson Doubleday, Jr personally cancelled the publication and had (most of) the copies destroyed, leaving this Grove Press edition, with a new preface by William S. Burroughs, to stand as the First American issue. An experimental novel in linked short-stories, including "Plan for the Assassination of Jacqueline Kennedy," "Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan," "The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy Considered as a Downhill Motor Race," "Crash!," and others. Adapted to film as The Atrocity Exhibition in 1998, directed by Jonathan Weiss and starring Victor Slezak and Anna Juvander.

[Currey p. 22].