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Burroughs, William S.. Nova Express. Jonathan Cape, London, 1966.

Price: US$35.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: This novel written by the author of "Naked Lunch," concerns the war against Hell - an hallucinatory interplanetary cops-and-robbers game with the Nova Police." Book and dustjacket are in excellent condition - only defect is the previous owner's last name on front free endpaper. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 187 pages

Seller: Bookshelf of Maine, Franklin, ME, U.S.A.

BURROUGHS, William S.. Nova Express. Jonathan Cape, London, 1966.

Price: US$40.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Tight and tidy, faint foxing in top edges. Intact dust jacket, slight rubbing to 1 top corner and to crown of spine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Seller: Mainly Fiction, Auckland, New Zealand

BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S.. Nova Express. Jonathan Cape 1966, 1966.

Price: US$55.37 + shipping

Description: FIRST UK EDITION; Octavo, black cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, upper page edges stained red, 187pp, VG (light rubbing & soiling to boards, light-moderate foxing to page edges/eps/prelims/terminals, moderate fading to red staining of upper page edges, previous owner's name in blue ink to fep) in d/w, VG (light rubbing/creasing, moderately heavy sun-fading to spine, moderate browning/discolouration to flaps/reverse, all four corners of flaps price-clipped)

Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand

Burroughs, William. Nova Express. Jonathan Cape, UK, 1966.

Price: US$84.51 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: A UK first edition, first impression. THE WRAPPER : The wrapper on this copy is bright, clean, unfaded and complete. It is unclipped. The red spine panel is unfaded. Looks sharp. THE BOOK : The book is square and very tight. There are no previous ownership inscriptions. The boards are very clean. The corners are sharp. The pages are clean. No foxing. The closed page edges are slightly dulled and there is very faint ghosting to the ffep. The binding is tight, the hinges are solid. No remainder marks. A bright copy in a protected wrapper. Paypal accepted.

Seller: Cheltenham Rare Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom

William S. Burroughs. NOVA EXPRESS [First UK edition]. Jonathan Cape, Thirty Bedford Square, London, 1966.

Price: US$97.51 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 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.

Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom

William Burroughs. Nova Express. Jonathan Cape, 1966.

Price: US$104.01 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1966 first UK edition / 1st impression. Black cloth, gilt titles, top edge red, unclipped pictorial dustjacket. With 2 contemporaneous newspaper reviews laid of the book in, one by Anthony Burgess, one by Alex Comfort. Condition: Rear board with a little speckling to top edge, otherwise clean and tidy. Edge of text block and inside of dj with old damp staining, which shows only very faintly on outside of dj. Endpapers also have faint staining but the pages are clean and bright. Some pencil notes written to rear fep. 25s net on dj flap has been crossed through and '8/6' written above. Now in removable plastic sleeve. Size: 8x5.5in / 20x14cm. 187pp. Weight: 350g.

Seller: Paperworks, Plymouth, United Kingdom

BURROUGHS William. Nova Express. , 1966.

Price: US$210.63 + shipping

Description: First UK edition. 8vo. Original black paper covered boards, gilt lettering to spine, dust jacket. London, Jonathan Cape. A near fine copy. Slight sunning to spine.

Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom

Burroughs, William S.. Nova Express.. Jonathan Cape., London, 1966.

Price: US$375.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First British edition. (187pp. ) (5 1/2" X 8") Fine in fine dust jacket. Surprisingly elusive. ; 5 1/2" X 8"; 187 pages

Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.

BURROUGHS, William S.. Nova Express. Jonathan Cape, London, 1966.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: The first British edition. Inscribed by the author, again for Richard Aaron. Slight softening to the spine ends; faint foxing to the edge of the text block; very near fine in a fine dust jacket. Uncommon signed, and a good association. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.

Seller: Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA (Lopezbooks), Hadley, MA, U.S.A.

Burroughs, William S.. Nova Express.. Jonathan Cape Ltd, London, 1966.

Price: US$600.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First British Edition, First Impression. A Fine copy in black textured paper covered boards (spine-ends slightly pinched), in a Fine red dustwrapper, not price-clipped. 187pp. This copy SIGNED (no inscription), directly on the title page. Q15802

Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.

William Burroughs. Nova Express. Jonathan Cape, 1966.

Price: US$617.58 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: An advance proof copy and as such a scare item by any standard. This is the proof of the first UK edition that was published by Jonathan Cape in 1966 and has all the charm of the best early proofs. Spine faded but otherwise very good, clean and tight.

Seller: CASSIUS&Co., London, United Kingdom