Nova Express
by Burroughs, William S
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/As New
- Seller
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
New York: Grove Press, 1964. Book. As New. Original Cloth. First Edition. First printing stated. Octavo, burnt orange cloth covered boards with black spine titles. 187pp. One of Burrough's most admired and sought after titles. A remarkably preserved copy. The cloth is brilliant as are the interior pages, bright, fresh, crisp, unmarked and apparently unread. The dust jacket is very tight, very bright, absolutely clean, crisp, sparkling and razor sharp. A really pristine colletor's copy. Fine in fine dust jacket. Virtually as new..
Synopsis
Nova Express is a 1964 novel by William Burroughs, whose plot cannot easily be described. It features Burroughs' cut-up method of enfolding snippets of different texts into the novel, including T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land", among others. It is the third in The Nova Trilogy formed by The Soft Machine, The Ticket That Exploded, and Nova Express. Naked Lunch is seen as a prequel to these. Nova Express was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1965.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Brillig Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 06924
- Title
- Nova Express
- Author
- Burroughs, William S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Grove Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1964
- Keywords
- BURROUGHS, SURREALISM, SURREALIST, BEAT, HIP, AMERICAN, MODERN, FIRST, EDITION, NOVEL, DRUGS, VIOLENCE SATIRE, COMMENTARY, SOCIAL, HOMOSEXUAL, GAY, SEX, DYSTOPIA , HORROR, NIHILISM
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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About the Seller
Brillig Books
Biblio member since 2006
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
About Brillig Books
An independent bookseller of uncommon, out-of-print, used and rare books since 1991.
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
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