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Book Description Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: 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]. Seller Inventory # 29581
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First American Edition; First Printing. 157pp.; HB blk.w/red&gilt; slight rub w/clean,tight pgs. DJ red w/white-pic.cover; slight rub w/lt.wear on edges. " .an apocalyptic novel about the irrational violence of the modern world." lgiht stain to last page. Seller Inventory # 051466
Book Description Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Fine in Fine dj, US First Edition, First Printing Hardcover Protected in clear Mylar cover. Bubble wrapped and shipped in a box. We do not stock or sell ex-library or Book Club editions. We are always looking to buy hardcover Mysteries and Thrillers. Seller Inventory # 90384
Book Description Hardcover with Dust Jacket. VG+ in a near fine dj. Stated First Printing. Black cloth 156pps. Seller Inventory # 48033
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First American edition (and first with this title, published in the U.K. as *The Atrocity Exhibition*). Preface by William S. Burroughs. A little foxing on the endpapers still fine in fine dustwrapper, a lovely copy. A scarce novel about the nature of violence and sex. Seller Inventory # 459119