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Burroughs,William S.. The Ticket That Exploded. Grove Press, New York, 1967.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: first printing
Seller: Always Superior Books, marietta, GA, U.S.A.
BURROUGHS, William S.. THE TICKET THAT EXPLODED. Grove Press, New York, 1967.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: Signed first US edition of Burroughs' second book in the Nova trilogy. Orange cloth with black lettering to spine, in original pictorial dust jacket. Very good plus, in a very good DJ. SIGNED by Burroughs under his name on title page. Jacket with a dampstain in the middle of front panel, to verso, causing visible creasing to front; moderate rubbing, soil, and hints of edgewear; price intact. Pages edges a bit soiled with light surface dents. Interior clean throughout. 217pp. Very good plus in a very good jacket.
Seller: Brian Cassidy Books at Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Burroughs, William S.. The Ticket That Exploded. Grove Press, 1967.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Grove Press: New York, 1964. First edition after the Olympia Press edition of 1962. Fine book in a very good plus book with some rubbing to the front panel and three small holes to the jacket at the flap folds. Signed by WSB on the title page. Ref: Maynard and Miles.
Seller: Paul Johnson Fine Books, IOBA, Temecula, CA, U.S.A.
Burroughs, William S.. THE TICKET THAT EXPLODED. Grove Evergreen, NY, 1967.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First US edition, first prnt. Originally published in softcovers in Paris in 1962 by the Olympia Press. Signed & dated "July 30, 1995" by Burroughs on the title page. Minimal shelfwear. Orange boards and white dustjacket clean. Tiny wrinkles at dustjacket spine top edge. Near Fine condition in a Near Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Second book in Burroughs' Nova trilogy
Seller: REVERE BOOKS, abaa/ilab & ioba, Fernandina Beach, FL, U.S.A.
BURROUGHS, William S.. The Ticket That Exploded. Grove Press, Inc, New York, 1967.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Second Printing. Fine in a very slightly age-toned, else fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by Burroughs to Ruth Ford: "For Ruth Ford, William S. Burroughs." Ford, the Mississippi-born sister of surrealist author Charles Henri Ford, was a beautiful model and actress, first in Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre, and later in films and theater. Notably, she starred on Broadway in Jean Paul Sartre's *No Exit* in 1946, under the direction of John Huston (the last of five Broadway plays he directed). Her apartment in the Dakota became a salon for authors such as Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Terrence McNally, and Truman Capote. A chance encounter between Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents in her Manhattan living room led to their collaboration, with her Dakota-neighbor Leonard Bernstein, on *West Side Story*. Similarly, she brought together Kay Thompson and Hilary Knight to create the celebrated stories of *Eloise*, the little girl who lived at the Plaza. Ford is well known also for her long friendship with William Faulkner, which began with her dating his brother Dean in the early 1930s. Faulkner was openly smitten with Ford for many years. He wrote his experimental 1951 title *Requiem for a Nun*, a sequel to his early and controversial novel *Sanctuary*, with her in mind. He further declared, to the consternation of his agent and publisher, that it was her dramatic property (*Requiem for a Nun* was a mixture of stage play and novel). Stage production of the title stalled for years, partly because Faulkner's experimental drama did not lend itself to live theatre, and partly because the producers were unsure of Ford's suitability. Faulkner was adamant that it was her dramatic property, and in 1959 she adapted the play herself and starred in its London production opposite her second husband, Zachary Scott. Her stage version received enthusiastic reviews in both London and New York, but did not fare so well with audiences and closed after a short run on Broadway. Ford continued to act on both stage and screen well into the 1980s. She passed away in 2009 at the age of 98. A nice association.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
BURROUGHS, William S.. The Ticket That Exploded.. New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1967, 1967.
Price: US$1615.43 + shipping
Description: First US edition, first printing, signed by the author on the title page. The Ticket That Exploded was originally published in Paris by the Olympia Press in 1962. The novel is one of Burroughs's works from the early 1960s which utilises "'cut-ups', a technique that Burroughs learned from [collaborator and artist Brion] Gysin. After texts are literally cut up, unrelated lines are joined, resulting in hybrid passages that Burroughs sometimes found poetic" (ANB). Maynard & Miles A6. Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine in black. With dust jacket. Minor rubbing to board edges, cloth bright, book block square, foxing to book block edges, light foxing and offsetting to endpapers, an attractive copy in very good condition in the lightly soiled jacket, unclipped, short closed tear to foot of spine and front panel joint.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Burroughs, William S.. The Ticket that Exploded. Grove Press, New York, 1967.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: First American edition, revised and expanded from the Olympia Press edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed. Inscribed on the title page: "for Bob Wilson | William S. Burroughs". Maynard & Miles A6b Original orange cloth. Fine in near fine, unclipped dust jacket with very slight soiling visible on white upper panel. Review copy, with slip laid in First American edition, revised and expanded from the Olympia Press edition.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.