An Inscribed Atrocity
BALLARD, J.G. Love & Napalm: Export U.S.A. New York:Grove Press.1972
8vo. Original black cloth with red lettering to spine, pictorial dust jacket designed by Kay Susmann, pp. [iv], 157, [i]; slight bumping to head of spine and water staining to lower portion of dust jacket, also lightly affecting the cloth, with some loss to the lower portion of lettering to spine; a very good copy.
First US edition, signed by the author
The jacket describes Love & Napalm: Export U. S. A. as “a unique and disturbing newsreel of our unconscious minds told in fifteen different sections".
~b~Described by William Burroughs in the preface to this edition as "a profound and disquieting book", Love & Napalm was first published in the UK in 1970 by Jonathan Cape with the title The Atrocity Exhibition. A 1970 US edition was already printed before Nelson Doubleday Jr. made a personal decision to cancel the publication, anticipating legal action from those portrayed in the book. Ballard later explained that Doubleday “actually opened a copy and saw the Ronald Reagan story ['Why I Want to F*** Ronald Reagan'] and […] sent the order to destroy the entire edition."
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