Nova Express by Burroughs, Signed (10 results)

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 187 pages. In Good condition with a Good condition dust jacket. White spine with black and orange lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, price is uncut "$5.00", mild wear along the extremities, bending wear along the rear head edge, a small tear along the rear head edge, a stain on the spine, and mild age-toning along the edges. Boards have mild age-toning along the head and tail edges, and mild wear along the extremities. Textblock has adhesive wear along the front end-page and front and rear pastedowns, moderate age-toning along the edges, and mild wear along the edges. Inscription on title page reading "For Dick Gabler all best", signed William S. Burroughs, dated '6/12/1992'. DL consignment. Shelved in Case 6. 1387230. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Original Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. First Evergreen Black Cat Edition. First Evergreen Black Cat Edition, sixth printing. Signed by Burroughs in black pen on title page. Publisher's white wrappers, with black and orange design to front wrapper, lettered in white, orange, and black. Near fine, with light spotting to spine, and light toning to page margins. Overall, a firm and clean copy. Nova Express is the third and final installment in Burrough's The Nova Trilogy, which also includes The Soft Machine (1961) and The Ticket that Exploded (1962). Together, the series represents Burroughs' follow-up to his 1959 The Naked Lunch. Interestingly, Nova Express is considered the best novel in the trilogy, winning more individual praise than its predecessors. In this text, Burroughs describes the perpetual battle between the "Nova mob," and "Nova police" that forms a "hallucinatory interplanetary cops-and-robbers game." Adding to its bizarre nature, Nova Express was written using Brion Gysin's cut-up method, in which authors slice up paragraphs of text and then combine unrelated words and phrases to create a new text. As Burroughs explains in his forward note, the cut-up method, which has its origins in Dadaism, had the consequential effect of rendering Nova Express "a composite of many writers living and dead.". Signed by Author.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. 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. Near fine in a near fine jacket. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Signed by WSB on the half-title. Near fine in a near fine jacket. Not price-clipped. Full orange cloth in a jacket designed by Roy Kuhlman. A couple of chips to the top of the spine; light rubbing to the front panel of the jacket. Black and white photo of WSB on the rear panel. There were 10,000 copies in this edition. Ref: Maynard and Miles. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Signed by Burroughs. A very good plus copy in a very good dust jacket. See photos. Signed by Author(s).

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition, so stated. Orange cloth in unclipped jacket. SIGNED, with a short inscription, by William Burroughs. Dated May, 1997. A novel by William Burroughs utilizing a version of his cut-up method to depict a struggle in a future world between the Nova Police and viruses that inhabit human bodies. GOOD+ condition. Minor toning, soiling and wrinkling to the jacket. Minor fading and edgewear to the book. Light toning to the text block.

Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Condition: NEAR FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by author on title to 'Ralph.' Ralph Sylvester was half of the fine-press publishing duo Sylvester and Orphanos. First printing. 187pp. Orange cloth black-stamped spine lettering. Some trivial toning to endpapers, trivial and miniscule damp stain to top edge, otherwise clean and sharp. Dust jacket has minor rips to head of front and back covers, some minor shelf wear. Now in mylar. Signed By Author.

Hardcover, 187 pages. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good +. First Edition. Signed and inscribed, "to Joan" on title page by William S. Burroughs.First Edition. Cloth bound. Text lightly chipped ands faded on outer spine. Light bumping to top and bottom of outer spine.Light bumping to top right corners of front and back boards. Light foxing to boards. Foxing and light soiling to text block. Foxing to front and back paste-downs. Light foxing to outer and inner dust jacket. Light chipping to front inner flap and to top of back inner flap. Very light chipping to top and bottom of spine. Small tear on back cover, upper left corner. Light soiling to inner dust jacket. Dust jacket housed in Brodart protector sleeve.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First Printing, one of 10,000 copies. Octavo (20.75cm); red-orange cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [ii],[11],12-187,[3]pp. Signed by Burroughs on the half-title page. Touch of softening to spine ends, hint of offsetting to endpapers; Near Fine. Dustjacket, designed by Roy Kuhlman, is price-clipped, gently spine-sunned, showing modest shelfwear and dust-soil, with a few tiny tears, and some faint foxing to extremities; Very Good+. "A novel of future violence and corruption, in which the anarchic Nova Mob descends like the Furies on hapless humankind, while the Nova police try to match them" (Barron, Anatomy of Wonder 4-100). Maynard & Miles A10.a. Signed.

First edition. First edition. 182, 155, 184, [7], [1, ad] pp. 1 vols. 12mo. INSCRIBED on the title page "For Robert A. Wilson with all best wishes and friendship William S. Burroughs September 15th, 1985" and also SIGNED by Allen Ginsberg. Robert A. Wilson was proprietor of the legendary Phoenix Book Shop in New York City. A choice association copy, documenting the long literary connection between Ginsberg and Burroughs: it was Ginsberg who helped Junkie find its way into print as an Ace double back in 1953. Maynard & Miles A5, A10, A20 (for first editions) Wrappers. Interior toned, else fine 182, 155, 184, [7], [1, ad] pp. 1 vols. 12mo.