Item #5986 ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST: A NOVEL. Ken Kesey.
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST: A NOVEL

ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST: A NOVEL

New York: The Viking Press, 1962. First Edition. Kesey's first published novel, one of the defining works of the 1960's, set in an Oregon psychiatric ward. Basis for Miloš Forman's Oscar-winning 1975 film, starring Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher. Item #5986

First Printing, with the textual errors on pages 9 and 85-86. Octavo (20.75cm); emerald green cloth, with titles stamped in yellow on spine; orange topstain; dustjacket; [viii],[2],3-311,[1]pp. Gentle sunnning to spine and upper board edges, topstain a little dulled, but fresh internally; Near Fine. In the first state dustjacket, with the Kerouac quote at lower front flap; unclipped (priced $4.95), a bit spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn, with a few tiny nicks and tears to extremities, and a 1.5cm tear at base of spine neatly tape-mended on verso; Very Good+.

Price: $3,500.00

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