Softcover. 8vo. 183 pp. In the trademark green Olympia Press softcover wrappers  including "Traveller's Companion," no. 91 in the series, green borders on title page, Brion Gysin drawing last page, price 18 n.f. on rear cover. Very minor wear along spine. A very fine copy Burroughs's lesser-known story of which Anthony Burgess wrote, "It is in books like The Ticket that Exploded that Burroughs seems to revel in a new medium for its own sake–a medium totally fantastic, spaceless, timeless, in which the normal sentence is fractured, the cosmic tries to push its way through bawdry, and the author shakes the reader as a dog shakes a rat."

From the library of the important American poet Frank Bidart, who received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award, and the 2017 National Book Award for Poetry for his book Half-light: Collected Poems 1965–2016. His signature of ownership is on the ffe.