Signed book: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. First edition. NY: The Viking Press, 1962. Hardcover with later-issue dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.25, 311 pages. Impressively signed and inscribed on the first free end page in green ink, "For Dave, Ken Kesey." Kesey enthusiastically embellishes the area surrounding his signature in orange, pink, yellow, and blue. Autographic condition: fine. Book condition: VG/VG, with minor sunning and wear to spine, and light staining to pastedowns. 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 later-issue dust jacket has a price of "$12.95." 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.
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