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NOVA EXPRESS
by BURROUGHS, William S
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near fine in a near fine jacket.
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Grove Press, 1964. First Edition. Near fine in a near fine jacket.. First printing of the third installment in Burroughs' Nova Trilogy. [Maynard & Miles A10]. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth with black lettering to spine, in original illustrated dust jacket. About very good plus in a very good DJ. SIGNED by Burroughs under his printed name on title page. Jacket a bit edgeworn with moderate toning, small chips at spine edges, light soil; some dampstaining to bottom of spine on verso. Price intact. Book shows a bit of rubbing to cloth; trivial corner bumps; light toning to endpapers and pages; bookseller sticker to rear pastedown. Text block clean and unmarred throughout. 187pp.
Synopsis
Nova Express is a 1964 novel by William Burroughs, whose plot cannot easily be described. It features Burroughs' cut-up method of enfolding snippets of different texts into the novel, including T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land", among others. It is the third in The Nova Trilogy formed by The Soft Machine, The Ticket That Exploded, and Nova Express. Naked Lunch is seen as a prequel to these. Nova Express was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1965.
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- Bookseller
- Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 43266
- Title
- NOVA EXPRESS
- Author
- BURROUGHS, William S
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine in a near fine jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1964
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix
Biblio member since 2004
Silver Spring, Maryland
About Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix
Brian Cassidy Bookseller is the counterculture department of Type Punch Matrix, a rare book firm founded in 2019 by Rebecca Romney and Brian Cassidy. BCB @ TPM specializes in the avant garde in all its various guises, including: The Beats; artists' books; poetry; small journals and magazines (especially those associated with the Mimeo Revolution); modern and contemprary art; photography; music; archives and appraisals; as well as vernacular, folk, and outsider books of all kinds. We are always looking to purchase books within my areas of interest, from single titles to collections. Please inquire. We are open by appointment and are easily accessible by public transit.
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