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Fine Literature
1:00 PM PT - Oct 9th, 2008

 

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 1st Edition

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Title: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Author: Kesey, Ken
Description: Bright green cloth, spine lettered in yellow, dust jacket. First Edition, First Issue.First issue, with "that fool Red Cross woman" on p. 9, lines 12-13; and with "It's the plump Red Cross woman named Gwen-doe-lin, with the blond hair the patients are always arguing about...." on pp. 85-86. First issue jacket with the publisher's printed "$4.95" price and with the five-word Kerouac "blurb" on the front flap. A classic of late twentieth century literature, this is Kesey's masterpiece and his first published book.
Heading: Place Published: New York
Publisher: Viking
Date Published: [1962]

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Minor wear to jacket edges, pencil notation at top of front flap; else fine in a like jacket, rarely encountered as such.

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