BURGESS, Anthony.

£3,750 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

A Clockwork Orange. First edition, first issue, bound in black boards and with the wide-flapped dust jacket priced 16s. Among the most significant and startling works of post-war British literature, the novel was the basis for the equally controversial 1971 Stanley Kubrick film, which led both author and director to fear they had "opened a Pandora's box" (ODNB).In the second issue, the jacket flaps were trimmed and re-priced 18s. The third issue was published in purple boards with a decimal price sticker.

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