Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Kesey (Ken). One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Methuen, London, 1962.
Price: US$257.65 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First UK edition. 8vo. Original red boards with decoration to spine. Dust-jacket, with price 18s net and code '2/251/2' to inside front flap. The first UK edition of Kesey's famous novel that explores the rebellion of psychiatric patients against an oppressive mental institution, led by the charismatic Randle McMurphy. Mild yellowing to extremities of text-block, small sticker to foot of front free endpaper with attendant offsetting to pastedown; boards slightly bumped at spine ends; jacket with some toning and wear, tear near head of spine.
Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, NOTTS, United Kingdom
Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (UK HB 1st in DJ - with unredacted name). Methuen, 1962.
Price: US$386.48 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: UK hardback first impression. Kesey's name to copyright page is not blacked out. The book is Good overall with a slight lean, a few small marks to title page, some light spotting to page edges and knocks to corners. The jacket is unclipped with some yellowing, surface scuffing to bottom of front flap, some small nicks and some brown marks near front flap edge.
Seller: Hunter Books, Burnham, BUCKS, United Kingdom
Ken Kesey. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. Methuen & Co, 1962.
Price: US$470.26 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stain to top and bottom of dust jacket due to exposed edges. Closed tear to bottom front of dust jacket. Minor chipping to top and bottom of spine and front of dust jacket. Bright maroon cloth. Bumping to top and bottom of spine and corners. Minor discolouration (spot) to top of front board. Toning to edges. Minor brown stain to fore-edge. Price intact, however sticker residue on top of original price. Otherwise the book is clean and tight.
Seller: Gnosis Books, Brunswick West, VIC, Australia
Kesey, Ken. One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest. Methuen & Company, London, 1962.
Price: US$549.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Maroon cloth with silver/blue to spine. Slight spine lean, spine foot bumped. One line blacked out to copyright page. Unmarked and sharp-cornered. The unclipped jacket in a protective cover has light edgewear and minor soiling. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Ken Kesey. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (First Printing). Methuen, 1962.
Price: US$579.72 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first impression; unusually, Kesey's name to the copyright page has not been blacked out - scarce, thus. Near Fine: firm and square binding in clean maroon cloth; lettered in silver and with a pale blue motif to the backstrip; a little pushing to the spine tips and top corners; modest toning to the edge of the page block, else excellent throughout. The unclipped dustwrapper (18s net stated) is Very Good+: bright, crisp and clean; a couple of tiny edge nicks (2mm or less) and a short closed tear to the head of the spine (5mm); toning to the top-edge and folds; the pink lettering and club motif to the spine are faded, though still legible; presented in a removable, archival-quality Brodart protective cover. A handsome copy. All orders are sent very carefully wrapped in bubble wrap and sturdy cardboard.
Seller: Bradhurst Fine Editions, Framlingham, United Kingdom
KESEY, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. A Novel by.. London: Methuen & Co. (1962)., 1962.
Price: US$579.72 + shipping
Description: First UK edition, 8vo, (viii), 311, (1) pp. Author's name blacked out to the title verso as usual, light stain to the foot of the fore edge. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, mild browning and marks, lower edge with light staining.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Methuen, London, 1962.
Price: US$595.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The book itself has a sligth lean, but is in very clean condition with unmarked interior pages toned at the extremities. Foredges also toned andf somewhat foxed. Hinge is tender around page 218, but solid. Color stamped design on spine. One line of the publisher's information in front matter has been blacked out. Laminate covering on DJ is very creased, age-darkened and soiled along and on spine. It has pulled away from the paper at the corner tips. Interior flap edges also toned and a little soiled. Not price-clipped. A little wear at head and foot of spine and at cornber tips. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Lowry's Books, Three Rivers, MI, U.S.A.
Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Methuen, London, 1962.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First British edition. Author's name blacked out, as is typical. [viii], 311 pp. Crimson cloth with gilt and turquoise stamping on spine. Near Fine in Very Good unclipped dust jacket with typical light laminate bubbling, spine panel a bit faded, light soiling around edges, small tear near head repaired with tape on verso. Small stain to last four pages' fore edge of and fore edge of back panel. A nice copy.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Ken Kesey. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Methuen & Company, 1962.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First UK edition, first printing of Kesey's first novel and the basis for the 1975 eponymously titled film directed by Milos Forman and starring Jack Nicholson. London: Methuen & Company, 1962. Publisher's original maroon cloth, spine stamped in gilt and turquoise; pp. (viii), 311. A near fine copy in an about near fine, unclipped dust jacket. Binding remains tight and sturdy, minimal wear to boards. Small owner's label to flyleaf, one line blacked out on copyright page (as is common), else internally clean. Jacket shows minor shelfwear and toning with light bubbling to laminate, protected in archival mylar. A nice copy.
Seller: Kevin Sell, The Rare Book Sleuth, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Methuen, 1962.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Dust jacket and book are clean, dust jacket price not clipped. Cloth boards are in very good condition. Has a good binding. Author's name is blacked out on the copyright page which is common, no other marks or notations. Dust jacket has some wrinkling to the laminate and some age toning to the jacket edges which aren't covered by the laminate. First Edition, First Printing (UK).
Seller: Ed's Editions LLC, ABAA, West Columbia, SC, U.S.A.
Kesey, Ken. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST. Methuen, 1962.
Price: US$622.45 + shipping
Description: ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST, Methuen, 1962, first English edition, vg+ in vg pictorial dust-wrapper with a closed tear to the upper margin of the front dust-wrapper panel and very slight chipping to the extremities of the bit tanned dust-wrapper spine. The authors name has not been blacked out on the copyright page. The source book for the film of the same name.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Methuen & Co., 1962.
Price: US$637.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Methuen & Co, 1962. First UK Edition. 311 pp. Hardcover: NEAR FINE. Dust Wrapper: VERY GOOD. Tight, clean copy, free of marks or inscriptions; slight foxing on top text block. Seemingly less common uncensored state without 1962 by Ken Kesey blacked out on the copyright page. The unclipped wrapper has some foxing/spotting, with negligible loss at the head of the spine. Kesey was a major counter-cultural link between the Beat Generation of the 1950 s and the hippies of the 1960 s. One Flew Over the Cuckoo s Nest is the seminal novel that has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. A great collectable book.
Seller: Bynx, LLC, Orlando, FL, U.S.A.
KESEY, Ken. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. Methuen, London, 1962.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: [8], 31 pages. Short 8vo, burgundy boards with gilt and blue-stamped spine, pictorial d.w. with modernist design by Kenneth Farnhill (intact but slightly sunned and worn at edges; laminate wrinkled). London: Methuen, (1962). First English edition. As typical, Kesey's name is blacked out on copyright page -- still fine in very good dust wrapper First state, with "fool Red Cross woman" on page 9. Kesey's important first book, adapted into a multi Oscar-winning film in 1975.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
KESEY KEN. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST. Methuen, London, 1962.
Price: US$727.87 + shipping
Description: First UK Edition. A neat name and date on the front paste-down and light foxing to the top edge otherwise a near fine copy in like D/W with no tears, creases or fading and which is NOT price-clipped. The interior is un-marked and immaculate. Unusually on the copyright page copyright [c] 1962 by Ken Kesey has NOT been crossed out as is invariably the case
Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom
Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Methuen, London, 1962.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First British edition. [viii], 311 pp. Bound in publisher's crimson cloth with gilt and turquoise stamping on spine. Near Fine with author's name on copyright page blacked out, as is typical, slight lean, in Very Good+ dust jacket with typical bubbling to laminate, light wear and toning, but very little sunning to spine panel. A nice copy of the classic novel that inspired the 1975 Milos Forman film.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
KESEY, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Methuen, London, 1962.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First English edition, and the first unexpurgated edition. One line marked over on copyright page, else very near fine in slightly age-toned near fine dustwrapper in which the laminate has contracted. Author's first book, something of a generational keystone and basis for the 1975 film which was the first to win all five major Oscars since *It Happened One Night* did in 1934. A nice copy.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. London Methuen 1962, 1962.
Price: US$869.58 + shipping
Description: A first edition, first printing published by Methuen in 1962. A near fine book with a small previous owner's name to the head of the endpaper. In a very good+ wrapper with some minor wear and light rubbing with some fading to the head of the spine. A pleasing copy and the basis for the classic Milos Forman movie with Jack Nicholson.
Seller: John Atkinson Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Harrogate, United Kingdom
KEN KESEY. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST. METHUEN & CO, LONDON, 1962.
Price: US$1024.17 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 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.
Seller: Elder Books, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Methuen & Co, London, 1962.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First UK Edition Inscribed by the Author. Loose bookplate laid in inscribed by Ken Kesey in red ink "For Ruth, Ken Kesey." On the copyright page, Kesey's name is blacked out with black marker. Fine with Very Good Plus Dust Jacket. Jacket has small creases at top. Original Price (18 s net) intact. Protected in archival plastic. Kesey's first published novel is based on individuals whom he met while working the graveyard shift in the psychiatric ward in a Veterans' Administration Hospital in California. On the surface, the book is an indictment of the mental health system and psychiatric practices of the era. But, just as importantly, Kesey is attacking conformity and celebrating individualism. Kesey was a major counter-cultural link between the Beat Generation of the 1950's and the hippies of the 1960's. The novel was made into an Oscar-winning movie starring Jack Nicholson in 1975. The picture swept all "Big Five" Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Actor (Jack Nicholson) , Best Actress, Best Director , and Best Adapted Screenplay. One critic argues the novel belongs on the same shelf with 1984, Brave New World, Farenheit 451, Clockwork Orange, Darkness at Noon and Cool Hand Luke. ; Signed by Inscribed by Author(s)
Seller: Good Books In The Woods, Spring, TX, U.S.A.
KESEY, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Inscribed). London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1962.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Description: First UK Edition. Octavo. Published in the same year as the American edition, the British edition featured a new psychiatric jacket design by Kenneth Farnhill. This copy SIGNED by Kesey to front endpaper, with elaborate-if opaque-inscription: "Like an outdated ghost, hold the drawstring tight." Kesey's name blacked out on the copyright page as usual. Fine copy in red cloth boards. With pleasing copy of unclipped jacket; minor toning to edges, with slightest wear to spine ends and waviness to laminate at spine, overall near fine.
Seller: Harper's Books, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.