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Burroughs, William (e.a.). The ticket that exploded. The Olympia Press, Paris, 1962.
Price: US$159.80 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Traveller's companion serie - 18 N.F. imprinted on the back - 182 pag
Seller: Von Meyenfeldt, Slaats & Sons, Breda, Netherlands
William Burroughs. The Ticket That Exploded. The Olympia Press, Paris, 1962.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Traveller's Companion Series. Original green wraps with black lettering and white border. Back Cover: 18 N.F. Not to be Sold in U.S.A. & U.K. Calligraphic illustration by Brion Gysin on page 183. Light wear only. Small ink stamp from former owner on inside front cover.
Seller: A Book By Its Cover, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: 184pp. The design on pg. 183 is by Brion Gysin. No. 91 in the Traveller's Companion Series. Conforms to Kearney 5.91.1. Light shelfwear at the foot of spine and corners, slight crease to front cover; lacks the dust wrapper. A Very Good copy
Seller: Alta-Glamour Inc., Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
William Burroughs. The Ticket that Exploded. The olympia Press, Paris, 1962.
Price: US$230.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A first edition of this work by William Burroughs as part of the Nova Trilogy. First edition. Part of the Nova Trilogy. The novel is an anarchic tale concerning mind control by psychic, electronic, sexual, pharmaceutical, subliminal, and other means. Passages from the other two books and even from this book show up in rearranged form and are often repeated. Written by William Burroughs, an American writer and visual artist, widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodern author who influenced popular culture and literature. In the original green paper boards. Externally, smart with light rubbing to the extremities. Crease to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Burroughs, William. THE TICKET THAT EXPLODED. Olympia Press, Paris, 1962.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition / First Printing. Softcover. Originally publication and first printing by the Olympia Press in Paris of this second part in the "Noval Trilogy".Burroughs' unique cut-up technique creates a disorienting, mosaic-like story that mirrors the chaos of an information-saturated, dystopian world,presenting communication as a tool for manipulation. Small 8vo, green printed wrappers, with scarceoriginal dust wrapper. PLEASE NOTE that all our First Editions are also First Printings, unless we specifically note otherwise. All our dust jackets are protected in clear mylar covers. Solid good to very good copy, which has moderate signs of handling and reading, as well as a couple black marks on the top page edges. The original dust jacket is fully intact, with separation starting on the front flap, and some rubbing, soiling, and a corner crease on front cover. Increasingly hard to find copies with the original dj.
Seller: Bert Babcock - Bookseller, LLC, DERRY, NH, U.S.A.
Burroughs, William. The Ticket That Exploded. Olympia Press, Paris, 1962.
Price: US$275.52 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: green wraps, 182 pp, no 91 in the series, green borders on title page, Brion Gysin drawing last page, price 18 n.f. on rear cover (18 crossed out in pencil), lacks dust jacket, first edition Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.
Seller: San Francisco Book Company, Paris, France
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first issue. (Priced at 18 N.F. on back cover. Maynard and Miles A6a. ) 183 pp. Original green wrappers printed in black. A Near Fine copy, lacking dust jacket. Light shelf wear, two faint indents to back cover. A nice copy.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Burroughs, William. The Ticket That Exploded. The Olympia Press, 1962.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The true first edition of this early Burroughs work. Published in France in December, 1962 in a printing of 5,000 copies. Near fine in olive green wraps with a small, faint stain to the fore edge. No jacket. Ref: Maynard and Miles.
Seller: Paul Johnson Fine Books, IOBA, Temecula, CA, U.S.A.
William Burroughs. The Ticket That Exploded. The Traveler's Companion, Paris, 1962.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: "The Ticket that exploded" by William Burroughs. Olympia Press, the traveler's companion, Paris. 1962 first edition first issue. Comes with good first issue printed wrappers with NF18 price, minor wear to edges. . Together with The Soft Machine and Nova Express it is part of a trilogy, referred to as The Nova Trilogy, created using the cut-up technique, although for this book Burroughs used a variant called 'the fold-in' method. The novel is an anarchic tale concerning mind control by psychic, electronic, sexual, pharmaceutical, subliminal, and other means
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
William Burroughs. The ticket that exploded Special Collection. The Olympia Press, 1962.
Price: US$523.48 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition thus, fine condition. The ticket that exploded Special Collection by William Burroughs. Published by The Olympia Press in 1962. Hardcover. Eerste uitgave verschenen als nr. 91 in de roemruchte Traveller's Companion Series van The Olympia Press. Stofomslag met de fotocollage van Ian Sommerville. Collectible item in excellent condition.
Seller: Collectors' Bookstore, Deurne, Belgium
Burroughs, William S. The Ticket That Exploded.. The Olympia Press, London, 1962.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Octavo, original green wrappers. Signed by William Burroughs on the title page. In fine condition. A superior example. âIt is in books like The Ticket that Exploded that Burroughs seems to revel in a new medium for its own sakeâ"a medium totally fantastic, spaceless, timeless, in which the normal sentence is fractured, the cosmic tries to push its way through bawdry, and the author shakes the reader as a dog shakes a rat" (Anthony Burgess).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Burroughs, William S.. THE TICKET THAT EXPLODED.. THE OLYMPIA PRESS., PARIS, 1962.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: INSCRIBED by William S. Burroughs on the half-title page. Fine in the 'first' issue green paperback binding with "18 N.F."printed on rear cover, in the pictorial dj. (Faint trace of shelfwear to edges of dj.)
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
BURROUGHS, William S.. The Ticket That Exploded.. Paris: The Olympia Press, 1962, 1962.
Price: US$3208.16 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For David Snell, William Burroughs". Snell (1921-87) was one of two reporters for Life magazine, the other Loomis Dean (1917-2005), who were present when Burroughs and Brion Gysin invented the cut-up technique on 1 October 1959, and whose subsequent interview outed Burroughs as a heroin user to Life readers, among them Burroughs's own mother. Snell's opening line upon meeting his interviewee was "Have an Old Gold, Mr Burroughs", a direct reference to Naked Lunch, in which two cops, O'Brien and Hauser, let themselves into Bill's flat; Snell's reference draws an excellent and knowing parallel between the two Life reporters and the cops, positioning himself as O'Brien: "they weren't bad as laws go. At least O'Brien wasn't. O'Brien was the con man, and Hauser the tough guy. A vaudeville team. Hauser had a way of hitting you before he said anything just to break the ice. Then O'Brien gives you an Old Gold - just like a cop to smoke Old Golds somehow. and starts putting down a cop con that was really bottled in bond. Not a bad guy" (Burroughs, p. 190). Burroughs valued Snell's reference, writing to Allen Ginsberg that Snell and Dean were "2 far out cats with real appreciation for my work that can't be faked" (quoted in Roach, p. 164). Burroughs had no love for Life magazine, but he liked Snell and Dean, and exonerated them for their parts in the final piece, a vitriolic repudiation of the Beats penned by a staff writer. The Life article, a long list of character assassinations that targets Kerouac, Ginsberg, Corso, and various others, characterizes "The bulk of Beat writers [as] undisciplined and slovenly amateurs who have deluded themselves into believing their lugubrious absurdities are art simply because they have rejected the form, style, and attitudes of previous generations and have seized upon obscenity as an expression of 'total personality'". Burroughs is painted with broad brush strokes: "for sheer horror no member of the Beat Generation has achieved effects to compare with William S. Burroughs. a pale, cadaverous and bespectacled being who has devoted most of his adult life to a lonely pursuit of drugs and debauchery. He has, first in Mexico and then in Tangier, dosed himself with alcohol, heroin, marijuana, kif, majoun and a hashish candy". Burroughs's mother was understandably horrified by the piece, while his response was more dismissive: "In order to earn my reputation I may have to start drinking my tea from a skull since this is the only vice remaining to me. I hope I am not ludicrously miscast as the wickedest man alive, a title vacated by the late Aleister Crowley" (quoted Roach, p. 24). This title, number 91 in The Traveller's Companion series, contains two pieces written in collaboration with Michael Portman; "In a Strange Bed" and "The Black Fruit". Together with The Soft Machine (1961) and Nova Express (1964), The Ticket That Exploded forms part of the Nova trilogy. It describes Burroughs's idea of language as a virus and lays the groundwork for many of the ideas detailed in The Electronic Revolution (1970). Kearney 166; Maynard and Miles A6. William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, 1992; Paul O'Neil, "The Only Rebellion Around", Life Magazine, 30 November 1959; Rebecca Roach, Literature and the Rise of the Interview, 2018. Octavo. Original green and white wrappers, printed in black. With Ian Sommerville dust jacket. Green border on title page, monochrome design on p. 183 by Brion Gysin. Trivial creases to front wrapper and spine, light offsetting to rear pastedown. A fine copy in jacket, a few marks to panels, folds lightly rubbed, crease to head of front panel, a few nicks to head of spine, two short closed tears to head of front panel and one to front flap, a very sharp example.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom