One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

by Kesey, Ken

$1,020 · Offered by Biblio · No longer available

First edition · In dust jacket

New York: Viking Press, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. A first edition of Kesey's classic 1960s novel, filmed by Milos Forman with Jack Nicholson in the lead. This copy is in a married later printing jacket, without the Kerouac blurb at the bottom of the front flap. First edition (first printing, stating "Published in 1962" with no later printings noted). "That fool Red Cross woman" on page 9 is not a point of issue. All copies of the first three printings have it. This copy has some light stains on the cloth. The book is in a very good early printing dust jacket still priced at $4.95 but without the Kerouac blurb on the front flap. The jacket is chipped at the spine ends and has wear at the corners. This copy comes in a black-cloth clamshell box, faded to gray at the spine. The spine label identifies the book as a signed copy; it is not signed.

• Publisher: Viking Press
• Year: 1962
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: first
• Binding: hardcover

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