One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Kesey, Ken
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Collectible - Like New/Very Good
- Seller
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San Francisco, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York, NY: The Viking Press, Inc., 1962. Book. Collectible - Like New. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. 311 pages, 8vo. Jacket unclipped: $4.95. First Edition, First Issue, with the earliest state of the text featuring "fool Red Cross woman" on page 9, lines 12-13; and "It's the plump Red Cross woman named Gwen-doe-lin, with the blond hair the patients are always arguing about." on pages 85-86. Bright green cloth boards with bright yellow-stamped lettering along spine. Light peach stain along top page edge, a bit faded. Printed on copyright page: "Published in 1962 by The Viking Press, Inc." First Issue dust-jacket designed by Paul Bacon with unclipped price at $4.95, and five word Jack Kerouac blurb on front panel. Shelfwear to DJ: light scuffing along edges and covers, a few small tears and light creasing at edges of spine, 1/4-inch missing piece at upper right corner near spine of back cover, moderate spine fade, some light scrathes and creases at upper right corner of front cover. DJ in mylar. Very light rubbing along cloth board edges, previous seller's small bookplate adhered to inside back cover, very light tanning on inside covers. Otherwise, volume is tightly bound, no marks. Volume is in Near Fine condition. DJ in Very Good-minus condition..
Synopsis
An international bestseller and the basis for a hugely successful film, Ken Kesey 's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was one of the defining works of the 1960s. This version of the novel is bound with the traditional cover. A mordant, wickedly subversive parable set in a mental ward, the novel chronicles the head-on collision between its hell-raising, life-affirming hero Randle Patrick McMurphy and the totalitarian rule of Big Nurse. McMurphy swaggers into the mental ward like a blast of fresh air and turns the place upside down, starting a gambling operation, smuggling in wine and women, and egging on the other patients to join him in open rebellion. But McMurphy's revolution against Big Nurse and everything she stands for quickly turns from sport to a fierce power struggle with shattering results. With One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest , Kesey created a work without precedent in American literature, a novel at once comic and tragic that probes the nature of madness and sanity, authority and vitality. Greeted by unanimous acclaim when it was first published, the book has become and enduring favorite of readers.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Russian Hill Bookstore
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 52769
- Title
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Author
- Kesey, Ken
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New Collectible - Like New
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- Publisher
- The Viking Press, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1962
- Keywords
- KESEY CUCKOO'S NEST
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Russian Hill Bookstore
Biblio member since 2017
San Francisco, California
About Russian Hill Bookstore
Russian Hill Bookstore, established in 1974, is one of the last family-owned used and new bookstores in San Francisco. We began as Sunset Bookstore in 1974, a small used bookshop servicing the Sunset District west of 19th Avenue, and have been in continual operation for the past 43 years. Over the years Sunset Bookstore has since closed and merged with Russian Hill Bookstore, which has grown to become also the best note card shop in the city, and a favorite place for toys and games for children of all ages.
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