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KESEY, KEN. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST. VIKING PRESS, 1962.

Price: US$15.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: GENERAL WEAR, RUBBED EXTREMITIES, CLEAN, TIGHT BINDING, CREASING CORNER ON COVER, NO MARKINGS DATE PUBLISHED: 1962 EDITION: 311

Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.

Ken Kesey: 1962 Viking Press Paperback. One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest. The Viking Press, 1962.

Price: US$33.48 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

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Seller: HPB-Ruby, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.

Ken Kesey: 1962 Viking Press Paperback. One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest. The Viking Press, 1962.

Price: US$33.48 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Seller: HPB-Diamond, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.

Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Viking Press, 1962.

Price: US$33.59 + shipping

Condition: New

Description: New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed

Seller: GoldBooks, Austin, TX, U.S.A.

Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Viking Press, 1962.

Price: US$34.72 + shipping

Condition: New

Description:

Seller: Hafa Adai Books, Moncks Corner, SC, U.S.A.

Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Viking Press, 1962.

Price: US$59.94 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: Book may contain some writing, highlighting, and or cover damage. Shipped fast and reliably!

Seller: -OnTimeBooks-, Phoenix, AZ, U.S.A.

Ken Kesey. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. The Viking Press and by The First Edition Library, (1962), New York:, 1962.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Description: Fine in bright green cloth covered boards with yellow text on the spine. A small octavo measuring 7 3/4 by 5 1/4 inches with a prior owner's address label on the first free end page. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket with the "FEL" logo on the rear flap. Both the book and its jacket are contained within a fine, paper covered slip case with a paper label of the front panel of the dust jacket and a black and white photograph of the author from the rear panel of the jacket. Laid in front of the book is the publisher's points of interest card which describe the book and its author. This is the First Edition Library's exact (facsimile) reproduction of the first edition of the book. 311 pages of text. Facsimile First Edition Library Reprint.

Seller: Town's End Books, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.

Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Viking Press, 1962.

Price: US$75.86 + shipping

Condition: New

Description: New. Fast Shipping and good customer service

Seller: GoldenWavesOfBooks, Fayetteville, TX, U.S.A.

Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Viking Press, 1962.

Price: US$80.93 + shipping

Condition: New

Description: Brand New!

Seller: Save With Sam, North Miami, FL, U.S.A.

Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Viking Press, 1962.

Price: US$82.11 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 100% Customer Satisfaction Guaranteed ! The book shows some signs of wear from use but is a good readable copy. Cover in excellent condition. Binding tight. Pages in great shape, no tears. Not contain access codes, cd, DVD.

Seller: Pieuler Store, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Viking Press, 1962.

Price: US$82.11 + shipping

Condition: New

Description: Book is in NEW condition. Satisfaction Guaranteed! Fast Customer Service!!

Seller: Pieuler Store, Suffolk, United Kingdom

Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Viking Press, 1962.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Twenty third printing, May 1975. Unclipped dust jacket shows minor handling wear; areas of edge wear; slight chipping at corners; sun fading to spine; now in protective mylar. Bright lime cloth boards with gold spine lettering; boards show very minor shelfwear; spine softening. Private library embossed stamp to title page; otherwise pages bright and unmarked. Binding tight.

Seller: Book Alley, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.

Kesey, Ken. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST. Viking Press, 1962.

Price: US$148.63 + shipping

Condition: New

Description: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 0.9

Seller: BennettBooksLtd, LOS ANGELES, CA, U.S.A.

Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Viking Press, 1962.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 1964 Viking Compass Edition. Dust jacket is lightly rubbed and creased along extremities. Cover is quarter black cloth over yellow wrapped boards. Corners are lightly bumped. Interior pages are clean in every way throughout. Binding is secure.

Seller: BooksElleven, Three Oaks, MI, U.S.A.

Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Viking Press, 1962.

Price: US$175.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Book Club Edition. Ken Kesey name at top front of Jacket. Only slight wear, no tears to Jacket with Bright colors. Twenty fifth Printing June 1976. Tight, clean binding, no marks.

Seller: Atlantic Books, Mars Hill, NC, U.S.A.

Kesey, Ken. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST.Custom Collector's 'Sculpted' Clamshell Case. Viking Press, [1962, Book Date], New York, 1962.

Price: US$180.00 + shipping

Description: Custom Clamshell Case. No Binding. First Edition Clamshell Case. Elegantly HAND-CRAFTED by our conservation team, the First Edition box [not with book] is gilt-lettered on the spine & features an embossed [sculpted] upper cover, after the famous dustwrapper's sectional design thematics. The case is finished inside & out in overall Rich Dark Green & Maroon Cloth & Nuba® - a fine, supple & durable covering with a neutral ph, that has the feel of velvetysoft Italian Nubuck® leather. & The box is perfectly sized to accommodate the true first edition. A Terrific Collector's Custom Case for an important Book. Web Site photo/link available for over 100 titles generally in-stock. Custom Craft available [Not with Book].

Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada

Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Viking, New York, 1962.

Price: US$450.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: New York: THe Viking Press, 1962. 8vo. 311 pp. Green cloth with gold lettering to the spine. First edition, first printing with the required points of issue. An ex- library book with few markings "Library Copy" stamped on the bottom edge (3/8" high); evidence of removal of a library pocket on the verso of the rear endpaper; small stain to the bottom of the front board. The jacket is price-intact, has some light edgewear and subbing (spine) and has a moderately faded spine. Very good minus in a very good minus jacket.

Seller: Paul Johnson Fine Books, IOBA, Temecula, CA, U.S.A.

Kesey, Ken.. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.. The Viking Press, New York, 1962.

Price: US$600.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Third Printing. A Near Fine copy in green cloth stamped in lime yellow, in a Very Good dustwrapper, price-clipped, slightly faded along spine, with one short closed tear top front panel near spine. 311pp. Q18628

Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.

Ken Kesey. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The Viking Press, New York, 1962.

Price: US$995.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First Edition, First Printing. All first issue points including $4.95 price and the Kerouac blurb on the jacket, also 'that fool Red Cross woman' on page 9 and 'It's the plump Red Cross woman named Gwen-doe-lin' on pg. 85-86. Once listed, this will be the least expensive Viking Press First Issue with dust jacket for sale anywhere on the Internet. The majority of such listings are in the mid two-thousands and upward. The reason for the discount is, in the main, the condition of the dust jacket which I have rated Poor. The photo provided will show you the extensive use of tape, the residue of which lingers for posterity (I think the dust jacket was previously owned by Nurse Ratched). It is not, remarkably, price-clipped, though someone penned '379' next to the original $4.95 price (if only they knew). The book is in much better shape, though far from perfect. I've rated it Good. I would describe the covers as Fair, and the interior as Good Plus or Very Good Minus. You can see that there are several light stains on the covers, the one on the front looks like it may have been due to water exposure, though the texture is not affected. There is also some darker discoloration just off the bottom edge of the rear cover, and there is some toning at some of the margins. You can see the spine in the second photograph. It has some brownish staining. Some positives: the spine ends look pretty good, so do the cover edges (there is a of small dark spot on the rear bottom edge, the corners look good as will with only one speck -sized spot of rub-through at the front bottom one. There is a very slight bending downward of the rear bottom corner. The page edges look clean, no conspicuous stains. The spine has a slight to moderate forward lean, but the book is quite solidly bound from cover to cover with nicely tight pages throughout and nicely tight covers as well. The pages are, overall, pretty clean. I turned each and every one over. The only significant stain or soiling is on page 39, a fairly light amber colored discoloration over parts of six or seven sentences (it does not impact one's ability to read). It covers a space of about three and half inches across and 1 inch upward, not terrible (you can ask for a photo). The verso page has a very light impression of it. Otherwise, you're looking at maybe 12 to 15 pages with one speck-sized or tiny or small spot, almost all of them at the margin. There isn't much by way of creasing. I saw one tiny bottom corner crease and two or three top corner creases (no placeholder creases). Also there is a reverberating semi-crease just slightly above the tips of the bottom corners of some of the later pages in the book, the result of the aforementioned slightly bending bump to the bottom corner of the rear cover. There are no markings in the book. There are no attachments of any kind. A Lawrence W. Trimble wrote his name and address (state of Oregon where Ken Kesey set this novel) on the blank front end paper. There is no other writing to be found anywhere else in the book. There is a 3 inch by 1/4 inch very light tanning just off part of the top edge of this page and the following page, the half-title page. It disappears after that. The same light tanning can also be seen on the rear blank end paper and the blank rear side of the last page of the book, again disappearing after that. 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a novel by Ken Kesey published in 1962. Set in an Oregon psychiatric hospital, the narrative serves as a study of institutional processes and the human mind, including a critique of psychiatry and a tribute to individualistic principles. It was adapted into the Broadway (and later off-Broadway) play One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Dale Wasserman in 1963. Bo Goldman adapted the novel into a 1975 film of the same name directed by Miloš Forman, which won five Academy Awards. Time magazine included the novel in its '100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005' list.'

Seller: Rareeclectic, pound ridge, NY, U.S.A.

KESEY, Ken.. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.. Viking Press,, NY:, 1962.

Price: US$1000.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: The author's first book. Made into the 1975 Academy Award winning (including Best Picture) film. First edition (first issue with "fool Red Cross Woman" on page 9 and "It's the plump Red Cross woman named Gwen-doe-lin." on pages 85-86). A few light damp marks to boards, somewhat faded along the spine, else very good in green cloth covered boards with yellow lettering along the spine. In a very near fine (tiny bit of edge wear at the base of the spine) facsimile dust jacket. ; 311 pages

Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.

Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The Viking Press, New York City, NY, 1962.

Price: US$1200.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: This is a Third Printing with the First Issue text before the revisions of the 4th Printing (Page 9 includes: "that fool Red Cross woman") and includes original Paul Bacon designed DJ that is not price-clipped ($4.95) and includes portrait of Ken Kesey on rear panel. Textblock is square and solid. DJ has moderate chipping and several small tears but in one piece and not faded but has smudges on rear panel. This is not an ex-lib book has no rem marks or markings of any kind. Orig publisher's green cloth with only a very subtle 1" long dampstain on front cover otherwise exceptionally clean throughout. Photo avail upon request. Author's critically acclaimed first novel. Price intact: $4.95. Photos avail upon request.

Seller: Sellsbooks, Indio, CA, U.S.A.

Kesey, Ken. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST. Viking Press, 1962.

Price: US$1469.65 + shipping

Description: ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST, Viking, 1962, first edition, faint scattered foxing to the fore edge, 5 leaves with a faint brown stain never entering anywhere near the text, several small light splash marks to the covers, else a tight vg/vg+ copy in a not quite vg second issue dust-wrapper without the Kerouac blurb and with some wear and tear. 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. Viking Press, 1962.

Price: US$1500.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1962 Viking first edition first printing first state in first issue jacket. Significant chip on the jacket at the spine just about obliterating the title. (from the jacket) Damp stain to top of rear board. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal

Seller: Griffin Books, Stamford, CT, U.S.A.

KESEY, KEN.. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. New York: Viking Press, 1962, 1962.

Price: US$2250.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition. Some waterspots on the cloth, else near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with a faded spine and moderate wear and tear. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.

Kesey, Ken. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST (signed + frog stamp). VIKING Press, New York, 1962.

Price: US$2400.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Viking (1962) 1974. NY. 311 pages. 8vo. The 1st/1st of this title originally published by Viking hit the presses in 1962. This copy was printed in 1974 and copyright page states Twenty-second printing June 1974. DJ price of $6.00 intact on flap. Also states Viking Compass Edition Issued in 1964 by the Viking Press. This copy is BOLDLY SIGNED by KEN KESEY in a gold paint pen on front-free endpaper. For --, Ken Kesey. Ken Kesey also stamped a large multi-colored frog stamp to same endpaper. Book is about fine in clean, bright green cloth with 4 sharp corners. Yellow topstain. The only thing holding this book back from being flawless is a minor flaw: 3 bottom page edges having a tiny chip or folded-up chip (tiny). This flaw hardly detracts from this excellent copy. Most minor shelf-wear to edges. Flaws are overstated. This book is in excellent, crisp condition. DJ is in the famous design as the 1st printing with cover design/art by Paul Bacon. DJ is bright and colorful. Black edges are nearly impossible to keep free of flaws and this copy is no different. Some of the black color has rubbed off at corners and along contours. As a result of the rubbing on DJ, we have graded it VG++ . Of the few signed Viking copies available, this is a beautiful book and a fine alternative to the signed 1st printing which will set you back a cool $ 7K.

Seller: Medium Rare Books, Mountainside, NJ, U.S.A.

KESEY, Ken (PARKER, Dorothy). One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Viking Press, New York, 1962.

Price: US$2500.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: First edition. Rear hinge restored, multiple drink rings and stains on the boards, a few small stains in text, a poor copy with jacket flaps glued into the rear blanks, otherwise lacking the dustwrapper (with a later supplied homemade brown paper jacket). An interesting albeit conditionally grubbing copy, with a bookplate on front pastedown presenting the book to a Los Angeles-area library from Dorothy Parker. Parker returned to Los Angeles in 1961 to reconcile with her estranged husband Alan Campbell (who committed suicide in 1963). Presumably Parker found Kesey's first book serviceable as a drink's coaster. Something of a generational keystone, this novel was the basis for the 1975 film that was the first to win all five major Oscars since *It Happened One Night* in 1934.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. New York: Viking Press, 1962.

Price: US$2500.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Octavo, green cloth lettered in gilt; multi-color dust jacket, second state without Kerouac blurb, slight edgewear and small chip. First edition, second printing. A presentation copy, inscribed to Michael McCurdy: "For Michael Anew? Ken Kesey," on the front endpaper; with unidentified signature on the back endpaper. McCurdy (1942-2016), the award-winning children's illustrator, founded Penmaen Press, which published works by Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and other Kesey contemporaries. A remarkable presentation copy.

Seller: North Star Rare Books & Manuscripts, Sheffield, MA, U.S.A.

Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The Viking Press, Inc., New York, NY, 1962.

Price: US$3000.00 + shipping

Description: 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.

Seller: Russian Hill Bookstore, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.

Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The Viking Press, New York, 1962.

Price: US$3500.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition, first printing, first state with "fool Red Cross woman" on page 9. Near Fine with light fading to topstain, faint bit of staining to edge of page block, previous owner details to front free endpaper. In a Very Good+ price-clipped first state dust jacket with five-word Jack Kerouac blurb on the front flap, spine heavily faded, and with light edge wear. A rather presentable copy.

Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.

Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.. The Viking Press, New York, 1962.

Price: US$3500.00 + shipping

Description: First edition of the author's classic first book. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good first-issue dust jacket with some expert restoration. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Published in February 1962, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was a great critical and commercial success. Over the subsequent decades the book's reputation and readership swelled as millions recognized Kesey's psychiatric ward as a not-so-fantastic metaphor for a modern world in which bureaucracy and technology combine to diminish humanity, individuality and diversity. Adapted to the stage in 1963, with Kirk Douglas in the lead, and was the basis for the highly successful 1975 film directed by Milos Forman and starring Jack Nicholson. Considered to be one of the greatest films ever made, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ranks number 33 on the American Film Institute's 100 Years, 100 Movies list. It was the second to win all five major Academy Awards (Best Picture, Actor in Lead Role, Actress in Lead Role, Director, and Screenplay) following It Happened One Night in 1934, an accomplishment not repeated until 1991 by The Silence of the Lambs. It also won numerous Golden Globe and BAFTA Awards.

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.

Kesey, Ken. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST: A NOVEL. The Viking Press, New York, 1962.

Price: US$3500.00 + shipping

Description: First Printing, with the textual errors on pages 9 and 85-86. Octavo (20.75cm); emerald green cloth, with titles stamped in yellow on spine; orange topstain; dustjacket; [viii],[2],3-311,[1]pp. Gentle sunnning to spine and upper board edges, topstain a little dulled, but fresh internally; Near Fine. In the first state dustjacket, with the Kerouac quote at lower front flap; unclipped (priced $4.95), a bit spine-sunned and lightly edgeworn, with a few tiny nicks and tears to extremities, and a 1.5cm tear at base of spine neatly tape-mended on verso; Very Good+. Kesey's first published novel, one of the defining works of the 1960's, set in an Oregon psychiatric ward. Basis for Miloš Forman's Oscar-winning 1975 film, starring Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher.

Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.

Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Viking Press, 1962.

Price: US$4000.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First Edition, first issue. Very good first edition in very good first issue dust jacket, with one line blurb from Jack Kerouac on the front flap. Also, First published in 1962 by Viking Press stated on copyright page and with the following points: "that fool Red Cross woman" on pp. 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." pp. 85-86. Prior owner's stamp on page edges, top, bottom, and foreedge. Jacket has original price on it. Comes in a custom-made collector's slipcase.

Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.

Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Viking, 1962.

Price: US$4200.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: The Viking Press: New York, 1962. 8vo. 311 pp. Green cloth boards with gilt titles to the spine. First edition, first state in a first issue jacket. Book: small tape ghost on the bottom of the front pastedown, and a small watermark to the top of the front panel by the spine, else fine. The price-intact jacket ($4.95) has benefited from professional restoration and presents as fine. A superior copy.

Seller: Paul Johnson Fine Books, IOBA, Temecula, CA, U.S.A.

KESEY, KEN.. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. New York: Viking Press, 1962, 1962.

Price: US$4500.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition of the author's first book. About fine in a dust jacket with only slight spine fading and minor restoration at the extremities; in a custom quarter-leather clamshell box. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.

Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Viking Press, 1962.

Price: US$4800.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: True first edition with "that fool Red Cross woman" on Page 9. Hardcover. Small water mark along the top front board (and corresponding jacket verso); Jacket has a few mends by an expert paper conservationist at corners and spine extremities. Presents wonderfully. First issue dust jacket with Kerouac blurb. Kesey's first book. Shipped in a box, not a padded envelope.

Seller: Dubliners Books, Austin, TX, U.S.A.

Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The Viking Press, New York, 1962.

Price: US$4950.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: 311 pages. First edition, first printing. His first book. First state book with "fool Red Cross Woman" on page 9. First issue dust jacket with the one line quote from Jack Kerouac at the bottom of the front flap. Dust jacket design by Paul Bacon. Fine book in a very good+ dust jacket with slight rubbing to the corner and the spine is slightly faded. A beautiful copy!

Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.

Ken Kesey. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest SIGNED. The Viking Press, New York, 1962.

Price: US$5000.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey. Signed by the author Ken Kesey on a professionally affixed cut page from another book. First edition, first printing "Published in 1962 by The Viking Press, Inc." on the copyright page. First issue with "that fool Red Cross woman" on page 9, 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. With its original first issue dust jacket with the single line blurb from Jack Kerouac on the bottom of the front flap. Original $4.95 price present. The original dust jacket is in very good minus condition. Chipping and creasing to the extremities, most noticeable at the flap folds, spine ends and the top of the rear panel. Spine is sun-faded. The book is also in very good minus condition. Some noticeable staining to the green cloth boards. Cloth is worn away at the corners and spine ends. Previous owner's name and address stamped at the bottom of the title page. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory #(K9-5).

Seller: Ernestoic Books, Clarence, NY, U.S.A.

KESEY, KEN. One Flew Over the CuckooÕs Nest. New York Viking Press 1962, 1962.

Price: US$5000.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition of the AuthorÕs First Book in the first issue dust jacket. A few faint moisture spots to cloth, some slight rumpling and creasing to rear free endpaper, else a near fine clean copy in a very good dust jacket with some tiny chipping and sunning at spine. The basis of the Academy Award winning film starring Jack Nicholson.

Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.

Ken Kesey. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST. The Viking Press, New York, 1962.

Price: US$5480.88 + shipping

Description: Near Fine in a Very Good+ price clipped dust jacket. Jacket and book are both first state -- first state dust jacket with the Kerouac blurb and the unrevised text and in the book on page 9 the uncorrected reference to the "fool Red Cross woman and 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.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.

KESEY, KEN.. One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. New York: Viking Press, 1962, 1962.

Price: US$6500.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition. A near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with some spine fading and minor wear and tear. Laid in is a publisher's card presenting the book to an editor. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.

Kesey, Ken [Kirk Douglas]. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.. The Viking Press, New York, 1962.

Price: US$7200.00 + shipping

Description: First edition of the author's classic first book. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Kirk Douglas on the half-title page. Douglas starred in the stage version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as McMurphy. Additionally laid in is a note from Kesey which reads, "For Henry: The wind blows the plumtree branches, this way.that. Ken Kesey." Near fine in a very good first-issue dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box by the Harcourt Bindery. Published in February 1962, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was a great critical and commercial success. Over the subsequent decades the book's reputation and readership swelled as millions recognized Kesey's psychiatric ward as a not-so-fantastic metaphor for a modern world in which bureaucracy and technology combine to diminish humanity, individuality and diversity. Adapted to the stage in 1963, with Kirk Douglas in the lead, and was the basis for the highly successful 1975 film directed by Milos Forman and starring Jack Nicholson. Considered to be one of the greatest films ever made, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ranks number 33 on the American Film Institute's 100 Years, 100 Movies list. It was the second to win all five major Academy Awards (Best Picture, Actor in Lead Role, Actress in Lead Role, Director, and Screenplay) following It Happened One Night in 1934, an accomplishment not repeated until 1991 by The Silence of the Lambs. It also won numerous Golden Globe and BAFTA Awards.

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.

Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Viking Press, 1962.

Price: US$9000.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First Edition, first issue. Very good first edition in near fine first issue dust jacket, with one line blurb from Jack Kerouac on the front flap. Signed by Ken Kesey on a slip attached to front free endpaper. Also, First published in 1962 by Viking Press stated on copyright page and with the following points: "that fool Red Cross woman" on pp. 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." pp. 85-86. Prior owner's stamp on page edges, top, bottom, and foreedge. Jacket has original price on it. Comes in a custom-made collector's clamshell case.

Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.

Kesey, Ken. ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST. The Viking Press, New York, 1962.

Price: US$10000.00 + shipping

Description: Inscribed first printing of the influential literary achievement by a towering figure of the counterculture. The basis for one of the defining films of 1970s cinema, Kesey's novel was first published more than a decade earlier, at the dawn of the '60s, and is all the more shocking for that original context. The novel is set in a men's psychiatric hospital among inmates who, afflicted variously by mental illness, minority status, criminal convictions, and aggressive nonconformity, are all subject to the indignities and cruelties of nurses and doctors alike. Kesey's sadistic Nurse Ratched lives on as a quasi-folk myth, like the real Lizzie Borden and the fictional Annie Wilkes; her name is perhaps better known even than Kesey's own. An enduring attack on the establishment's power to punish and enforce. 8'' x 5.5''. Original green cloth, spine lettered in yellow. Original unclipped color dust jacket designed by Paul Bacon, photographic portrait of Kesey by Hank Kranzler on rear panel. Beige topstain. [8], 311, [1] pages. Kesey's inscription scrawled in black ink across front paste-down ("For Darrel / Kesey 1993"); previous owner's signature penned to front endpaper. Jacket spine only just sunned; a touch of rubbing at spine folds, faint scratching (close inspection only) on front panel. Mild patches of offsetting and small stamp "Fe 21 '62" to verso of jacket. Small water spot to cloth. Presents beautifully. Very good in very good plus jacket.

Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.

Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. The Viking Press, New York, 1962.

Price: US$10000.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition, first printing, first state with "fool Red Cross woman" on page 9. Signed by Ken Kesey on the dedication page. Bound in publisher's green cloth with spine lettered in yellow. Near Fine with light tanning to pages. In a Near Fine unclipped ($4.95) dust jacket with five-word Jack Kerouac blurb on the front flap, with light wear to the extremities, fading to the spine, a small spot of browning to the front flap and blindside of the spine panel. Served as the basis for the 1975 film starring Jack Nicholson.

Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.