Faint extra stamp on top page block. Tight and almost square with flat spine.

A "fix-up" by Brian Aldiss. From an acknowledgement on the credits page: "This novel, shorn of some of its pop songs and poems, has been appearing - differently fashioned - in chunks in New Worlds over two years... ...(Just Passing Through) in Impulse" Without listing those several dozen songs, here are the stories:

Book One: Northwards:
Just Passing Through
The Serpent of Kundalini
Drake-Man Route

Book Two: Southwards:
Multi-Value Motorway
Still Trajectories
Auto-Ancestral Fracture

Book Three: Homewards:
Ouspenski's Astrabahn

First published by Faber and Faber (hardcover / in Britain) in 1969. Original appearances of the source material from 1967 to 1969 - in Impulse and New Worlds - not necessarily in the above order. Some stories appeared as "in collaboration" with C. C. Shackleton (a pseudonym of Brian W. Aldiss.)