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Lot #505
Ken Kesey

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Description

Unsigned first edition book: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey. First edition. NY: The Viking Press, 1962. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.25, 311 pages. Book condition: VG+/VG, with some nicks and creasing to edges of the jacket. Bound in light green cloth with orange spine lettering, and faded orange top stain. Contains "that fool Red Cross woman" on page 9, lines 12-13; and "Red Cross woman named Gwen-doe-lin, with the blond hair the patients are always arguing about" on the top of page 86. The first-issue dust jacket has the price of "$4.95" and a five-word Jack Kerouac blurb on the bottom of the front flap. A highly desirable first edition volume of an iconic work, named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels published since 1923.

Auction Info

  • Auction Title: Fine Autographs and Artifacts
  • Dates: #568 - Ended October 10, 2019