Ken Kesey – One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest – SIGNED First Edition 1962
£2,450.00
A first edition, first printing of ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’ published by Methuen in 1962. Maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt with blue-stamped illustration. Copyright page with the usual line blacked out. Near fine in very good unclipped wrapper. SIGNED to the front free endpaper by Kesey without dedication
8vo. 311 pp. A bright, sharp and highly collectible copy, preserved in the original Kenneth Farnhill dust jacket, lightly toned.
The unexpurgated edition of Burgess’s first major novel, and the basis for Stanley Kubrick’s Academy Award-nominated film. Farnhill’s striking jacket illustration remains one of the most recognisable designs in post-war British fiction. Signed copies of the American edition are plentiful – this is the first occasion we have seen a signed UK first edition.
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A first edition, first printing of ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’ published by Methuen in 1962. Maroon cloth, spine lettered in gilt with blue-stamped illustration. Copyright page with the usual line blacked out. Near fine in very good unclipped wrapper. SIGNED to the front free endpaper by Kesey without dedication
8vo. 311 pp. A bright, sharp and highly collectible copy, preserved in the original Kenneth Farnhill dust jacket, lightly toned.
The unexpurgated edition of Burgess’s first major novel, and the basis for Stanley Kubrick’s Academy Award-nominated film. Farnhill’s striking jacket illustration remains one of the most recognisable designs in post-war British fiction. Signed copies of the American edition are plentiful – this is the first occasion we have seen a signed UK first edition.
