BURROUGHS, William S. Nova Express. London: Jonathan Cape. 1966. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Leigh Taylor. Publisher’s review copy with a slip noting such loosely inserted, together with a Birmingham Post letterhead note directed to Michael Billington, long-time film critic for the paper and Harold Pinter’s biographer. An about fine copy, the cloth clean, the binding tight and square, the contents clean and fine with one or two very minor marks to the textblock edges. The dust jacket unclipped (25s net) and fine. Uncommon so.
The second of Burroughs’ novels to be published in the UK, concerning the war against Hell—an hallucinatory interplanetary cops-and-robbers game with the Nova Police. Third in the author’s loose Nova Trilogy, itself a sort of a spiritual and stylistic continuation of Naked Lunch.
BURROUGHS, William S. Nova Express. London: Jonathan Cape. 1966. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Leigh Taylor. Publisher’s review copy with a slip noting such loosely inserted, together with a Birmingham Post letterhead note directed to Michael Billington, long-time film critic for the paper and Harold Pinter’s biographer. An about fine copy, the cloth clean, the binding tight and square, the contents clean and fine with one or two very minor marks to the textblock edges. The dust jacket unclipped (25s net) and fine. Uncommon so.
The second of Burroughs’ novels to be published in the UK, concerning the war against Hell—an hallucinatory interplanetary cops-and-robbers game with the Nova Police. Third in the author’s loose Nova Trilogy, itself a sort of a spiritual and stylistic continuation of Naked Lunch.
