Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
BURROUGHS, William S.. NOVA EXPRESS. Grove Press, New York, 1964.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: 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.
Seller: Brian Cassidy Books at Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Small 8vo. Pp. [11], 12-187, [2]. Bound in red-orange cloth with black lettering stamped on spine. Slight offsetting to front free endpaper due to jacket flap; light dust soiling to top edge. In the two-color illustrated dust jacket that's particularly clean, price of $5.00 intact on the front flap. Signed in full by Burroughs in black ink on the title page. A bright, fresh first edition, first printing of Burrough's sixth novel. MAYNARD & MILES, A10a; GOODMAN, 27. Dust jacket is now housed in a removable, clear archival sleeve.
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Burroughs, William S.. Nova Express. Grove Press, 1964.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 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.
Seller: Paul Johnson Fine Books, IOBA, Temecula, CA, U.S.A.
Burroughs, William. Nova Express. Grove Press, New York, 1964.
Price: US$351.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 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.
Seller: Mare Booksellers ABAA, IOBA, Dover, NH, U.S.A.
William S Burroughs. Nova Express. Grove press, 1964.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed by Burroughs. A very good plus copy in a very good dust jacket. See photos.
Seller: Rob Warren Books, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.
Burroughs, William S.. Nova Express. Grove Press, 1964.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. A fine book in a fine jacket, which is not price-clipped.Signed by WSB on the title page. Outstanding copy.
Seller: Paul Johnson Fine Books, IOBA, Temecula, CA, U.S.A.
BURROUGHS, William S.. Nova Express [Signed]. Grove Press, Inc, New York, 1964.
Price: US$412.50 + shipping
Description: 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 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.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.