NOVA EXPRESS [First UK edition]

William S. Burroughs

Published by Jonathan Cape, Thirty Bedford Square, London, 1966

About this Item

First impression of the first UK edition. The book was originally published in the US by Grove Press in 1964. ***Very good in black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The gilt is still nice and bright, having been protected by the dustwrapper. Boards clean and unmarked. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. Corners sharp. Top edge of page block stained red by the publisher, still nice and clean. Fore-edge of page block lightly foxed. Spine tight. Internally also very good with no inscriptions. Pages clean, but please note that some of the pages are creased at the bottom corner tips. ***In a very good colour illustrated price-clipped dustwrapper. The dustwrapper is complete, with just some slight rubbing and wear to the top of the spine. Extremities of the dustwrapper just slightly creased and rubbed. No significant creases or tears. Dustwrapper bright, with absolutely no fading to the light-sensitive red colour even on the spine. ***204mm x 135mm. 217 pages. ***'"The Naked Lunch", hailed as a masterpiece by some, discarded as esoteric sensationalism by others, is one of the most discussed novels of the twentieth century. Burroughs is considered either a charlatan or a writer whose importance is to be measured with that of Kafka and Joyce. Norman Mailer calls him "the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed by genius". "Nova Express" is the second of his novels to be published in this country. It concerns the war against Hell - an hallucinatory interplanetary cops-and-robbers game with the Nova Police on one side and the Nova Mob on the other. ---As in "The Naked Lunch", the seriousness is partially cloaked and partially illuminated by the riotous Burroughs humour.' [Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper] ***First impression of the first UK edition, complete in its original 1966 dustwrapper in nice condition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: NOVA EXPRESS [First UK edition]
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape, Thirty Bedford Square, London
• Publication Date: 1966
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First UK Edition
• Printing: First Impression
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
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