SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION - TWO-VOLUME UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY

by Ken Kesey

$7,500 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

New York & Barnstable: The Viking Press / Cranes Duplicating Service, Inc., 1964 . First Edition. Proof copy of Kesey's second novel, centered around a hard-headed logging family in a lumber town in coastal Oregon. Conflict ensues when they are brought in to cut trees for a local mill in opposition to striking union workers. Basis for Paul Newman's Oscar-nominated 1971 adaptation, starring Newman, Henry Fonda, and Lee

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