The Ticket That Exploded
New York: Grove Press, Inc, 1967.
First U.S. Edition. 217 pp. 8vo. Original rust cloth with black spine titles. Original pictorial dust jacket. The dust jacket is unclipped, with only trivial toning to the spine and minor shelf rubbing.
The first expanded and definitive version of Burroughs' second "Nova" novel. A masterpiece of the cut-up method developed alongside Brion Gysin, the narrative follows Inspector Lee in his battle against the "Nova Mob," extraterrestrial entities who use language and imagery to control human biological processes. It is a dense, psychedelic, and profoundly influential critique of mass media and social control. A superlative collector's copy of a Beat Generation high-spot.
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