ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST
by KEN KESEY
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- Seller
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Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
SIGNED COPY. FIRST EDITION, FIRST IMPRESSION. HARDBACK BOUND IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH BINDING, ORIGINAL UNPRICE CLIPPED DUST JACKET, HALF TITLE PRESENT, HAND SIGNED BY KEN KESEY TO CARD PASTED TO INNER FRONT BOARD WITH A PRINTED SKELETON DESIGN. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 8 x 5 INCHES. VERY MINOR EDGE WEAR TO TOP FRONT EDGE OF JACKET WITH A VERY MINOR STAIN TO TOP FRONT EDGE & TOP REAR CORNER OF JACKET, MINOR BUMP TO CLOTH AT TOP OF SPINE, FAINT BROWNING TO FRONT ENDPAPER WITH A FEW SPOTS OF FOXING TO PAGE FORE-EDGES. OVERALL A LOVELY COPY IN VERY GOOD PLUS CONDITION WITH NO LOSS TO JACKET & INTERNALLY FREE FROM FOXING. PLEASE NOTE: DUST JACKET HAS A CLEAR REMOVABLE COVERING THAT MAY SHOW SOME WRINKLES OR REFLECTIONS IN IMAGES. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS POSTED IN STURDY BOOK BOX.
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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- Bookseller
- Elder Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 0062909-S2
- Title
- ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST
- Author
- KEN KESEY
- Format/Binding
- Hardback with Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition, Signed Copy
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- METHUEN & CO
- Place of Publication
- LONDON
- Date Published
- 1962
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Novel;
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