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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good-
- ISBN 10
- 0670526045
- ISBN 13
- 9780670526048
- Seller
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Carrollton, Texas, United States
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About This Item
Neon green and black boards with gold writing on spine; edges of boards very slightly discolored. Top and bottom of book spine slightly rumpled; slight chipping on top edge of front dust jacket. Very slight dings on edges of dust jacket where dust jacket flaps fold; top of dust jacket spine missing small piece and pushed back. Small crease at top edge of front dust jacket flap; cover price of $10.00 on front dust jacket flap. Tight binding and pages, though slightly yellow with age, still look in excellent condition
Viking First Edition; Twenty-Sixth Printing as indicated by "TWENTY-SIXTH PRINTING JUNE 1976" on copyright page.
Kesey's ground-breaking novel about a man sentenced to an insane asylum and his struggle with the head nurse over control of his fellow inmates. Made into a movie starring Jack Nicholson. Hardcover and original unclipped dust jacket protected by archival Mylar cover.
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
- Sherlock Joe's Book Hunting
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- KESEY002
- Title
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Author
- Ken Kesey
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition; Later Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0670526045
- ISBN 13
- 9780670526048
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1962-02
- Pages
- 311
- Keywords
- ken kesey; one flew over the cuckoo's nest
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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The game is afoot!
I focus on modern first edition, first printings, but have been lately finding first editions, later printings of older novels in my inventory. I'm also highlighting a lot of signed books that I've found.
I will also gladly search for and offer well-priced books of all kinds. If there's something you'd love to have, either send me a message here or go to https://cases.sherlockjoes.com and Open a Case!
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