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Kesey, Ken. Sometimes a Great Notion. Viking Press, 1964.
Price: US$97.85 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: First Edition. Stated 1st Edition. Dust jacket shows some rippling, rubbing, scuffing, creasing and discoloration from age. Edges show some rubbing, scuffing, browning and closed tears as well as a small torn section on rear top inside corner. Page edges are heavily browned from age and have some darker age spots as well. Pages are browned from age and book has a faint funky smell.
Seller: Half Moon Books, Kingston, NY, U.S.A.
Kesey, Ken. Sometimes a Great Notion. The Viking Press, 1964.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Cloth cover edition. Covers mostly clean, light wear. No dust jacket. Text clean, no writing or notes. Binding a bit shaken, cocked, split before title page. No loose pages. Corners, spine edges frayed, blackened at tips. Inked top outer edge faded, bottom edge appears rubbed or sanded. Previous owner's last name in blue ink on front end paper upper corner. Please contact us for more information or pictures.
Seller: Smith Family Bookstore Downtown, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
Kesey, Ken. Sometimes a Great Notion. Viking Press, 1964.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second printing, of first edition. Solid, square text. I used a facsimile dust jacket, as I liked this book very much. Owner name on front free end paper. In protective covers.
Seller: Prairie Home Books, Crosby, ND, U.S.A.
Kesey, Ken. Sometimes a Great Notion. Viking Press, 1964.
Price: US$123.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Please note our copy has a plastic coating on the cover.
Seller: Basement Seller 101, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Kesey, Ken. Sometimes a Great Notion. Viking Press, New York, 1964.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Boards are black with green spine and black titles. Appears to be a reprint from the original 1964 edition. No price listed inside flap. Interior is clean and unmarked. In excellent condition. Dust jacket is covered in Brodart cover for protection.
Seller: City Center Gallery & Books, Fayetteville, NC, U.S.A.
Kesey, Ken. Sometimes a Great Notion. The Viking Press, New York, 1964.
Price: US$160.11 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Facsimile first edition hardcover with unpriced, unclipped dust jacket in very good condition. Reprint in the same style and ppearance as the first printing in 1964, apart from the absence of price and addition of the ISBN number to the jacket rear. This edition has paper-covered boards as opposed to cloth covered boards. Light shelf wear to the jacket, spine is somewhat cocked, and page block is slightly bumped at the upper leading edge. Binding remains sound, boards are clean and pages are clear. LW
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
Kesey, Ken. SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION. Viking Press, 1964.
Price: US$179.47 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1.65
Seller: BennettBooksLtd, North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Kesey, Ken. Sometimes a Great Notion. Viking Press, 1964.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Qtr bound in green cloth over black boards; jacket identical to first edition; but no price on flap; 8.6 X 5.9 X 1.9 inches
Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Kesey, Ken. Sometimes a Great Notion. Viking Press, 1964.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Viking Press July 1964 Binding: Hardcover TRUE FIRST EDITION WITH UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET, VIKING LOGO ON HALF TITLE AND PHOTO CREDIT TO HANK KRANGLER ON DJ, A FEW SMALL CHIPS TO DJ, OTHERWISE VERY GOOD $NRP
Seller: Visible Voice Books, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Kesey, Ken. Sometimes a Great Notion. Viking Press, 1964.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition second printing in shop worn price intact jacket. Ownership ink to flyleaf, otherwise tight and unmarked. 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.
Ken Kesey. Sometimes a Great Notion. The Viking Press, 1964.
Price: US$285.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. DJ is NOT price-clipped. This book is pristine, with no prior ownership indications whatsoever. No visible wear at all on the linen-covered boards.The lettering remains bright and fresh both to the front board and the spine. NO BLEMISHES on this book other than the chipped dust jacket. An extremely sharp copy of the true first edition.
Seller: Wheelwrite Imaginarium Bookshop, Manchester Ctr, VT, U.S.A.
Kesey, Ken. Sometimes a Great Notion. The Viking Press, New York, 1964.
Price: US$292.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A near fine copy of the first hard cover edition in a merely good(not price-clipped) dust-jacket. Viking logo to base of half-title page. The text is wholly unmarked, pristine, and there are no ownership indications to the endpapers, front or back. No visible wear at all the the speckled linen-covered boards, the lettering of which remains remarkably bright and fresh in appearance, both to the front board and the spine. One 1/4" ink spot to front endpaper is the only blemish to the book, which is a result of the previous owner having blacked-out a critical comment penned to the front flap. Four lines of front flap text also underlined in ink. Surface wear and rubbing to the extremities of the jacket, with a 1/2" intact tear at base of rear spine seam. All-in-all a sharp copy of the true first edition.
Seller: Works on Paper, DeKalb, IL, U.S.A.
Kesey, Ken. Sometimes a Great Notion. Viking Press, 1964.
Price: US$337.07 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: Brand New!
Seller: Save With Sam, North Miami, FL, U.S.A.
Kesey, Ken. Sometimes a Great Notion. The Viking Press, New York, 1964.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: Viking colophon on half title page preceding title page. Hank Krangler identified as photographer on rear jacket flap. Jacket price $7.50 The book is vg+, tight, clean, with slight bumping to lower corners. The dust jacket is good+ to very good- with the following defects: triangular clip out of front flap below the price, minor small chips along top edge, some edge tears up to 1" long, minor paper loss with tiny chipping along lower edge, some small nicks in jacket along creases, and some rubbing and some dirt specks. This would be a most serviceable first edtion for the budget minded. Clearly it is not a prime copy, but neither is it a copy with hideous defects. A middle of the road copy if ever there were one.
Seller: Aladdin Books, Fullerton, CA, U.S.A.
Ken Kesey. Sometimes a Great Notion. The Viking Press, New York, 1964.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: The Viking Press, 1964. First Edition, first state with Viking logo to half title and photographer's name misspelled (Hank Krangler) at rear flap. Octavo. 628 pp. Printed dust jacket with $7.50 price intact. Mottled boards stamped in green and blue; green topstain. Dust jacket shows slight chipping to edges, general rubbing, and toning to jacket verso with neat though amateur tape repair. Front board bows slightly. Binding is sound and pages unmarked.
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Kesey, Ken. Sometimes a Great Notion. The Viking Press, Inc., New York, NY, 1964.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 628 pages, 8vo. Out of Print. First Edition, First Issue. Jacket clipped. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. The photographer's name is spelled "Hank Krangler" printed vertically on the edge of the jacket's rear flap. 8-3/4 inches high by 5-7/8 inches wide. Set in Electa and Perpetua types and printed in U.S.A. by the Vail-Ballou Press. Light blue-grey cloth boards with dark blue and green-embossed title along spine, blue and green-embossed design of square face with two K's as the eye's pupils on front cover. Minor shelfwear to DJ: light scuffing along edges, some light scuff marks along covers and spine, a couple very small tears along edges. DJ in mylar. Tightly bound with very clean and crisp pages. No marks. Volume is in Very Good-plus condition.
Seller: Russian Hill Bookstore, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Kesey, Ken. Sometimes a Great Notion. The Viking Press, Inc, New York, 1964.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition in a first state dust jacket, hardcover with top edge stained green, pages were not all cut to the same length and are jogged to the head leading to a touch of creasing to tail edge of some pages and a faint crease to lower corner of text block, book has a tiny skew to the binding, minor bumps to spine ends and cover corners, and slight sunning to spine with a touch of fading to head of text block, otherwise a solid, tight, clean VG+ copy in a VG unclipped dust jacket, which has moderate bumps with very short chips and tears to spine ends and corners, some edgewear with a small chip to head of front cover with a thin crease to back cover from upper corner, a touch of sunning to the spine, and areas of light rubbing. Jacket is wrapped in a removable Mylar cover. Additional images available upon request.
Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Ken Kesey. Sometimes a Great Notion. The Viking Press, New York, 1964.
Price: US$400.01 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Fair first edition inscribed by Ken Kesey on the front endpaper, dated 1985. Wear to spine ends, edges, corners. Slight lean to spine. Residue of previous owner's inscription to front pastedown. Glue residue to top and bottom of front and back boards, as well as front and back endpapers. Residue from removed library pouch to back endpaper. Small area of loss to center of title page, where the remainder of a library stamp is visible. Good dust jacket. Price-clipped. Some creasing along edges, bumping to spine ends. Small area of loss to bottom of spine, reinforced with small piece of tape. Glue residue to bottom of interior of spine. Basis for the Paul Newman movie. Overall a still desirable inscribed first edition.
Seller: Sellers & Newel Second-Hand Books , Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. Pp. 628. Gray-green cloth, titles stamped in black and green on the spine, author initials in decorative figure on the cover, gray-green topstain: half title with age-tone transfer, boards crisp and square, leaves crisp and bright. In the color dust jacket with price $7.50 intact on the front flap: closed tear to the rear panel repaired verso with transparent tape, light scuffs and edges rubbed. First edition, first printing, with the Viking logo present on the half-title and the Hank Krangler photo credit on the dust jacket's rear inside flap.The humanizing story of the Stamper clan, independent loggers in a coastal Oregon town, which may well constitute the Great Northwest Novel. The second work from the counterculture luminary and author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.Dust jacket is now preserved in a removable clear archival sleeve.
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Ken Kesey. Sometimes a Great Notion. The Viking Press, New York, 1964.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: hardcover in DJ with $7.50 price protected by clear book jacket cover, first published in 1964 by the Viking Press as stated, publisher colophon on half-title page, 2 line author bio on rear inside DJ flap with Krangler photo credit, 628 pages, no handwriting or remainder mark, repair to DJ chips beneath book jacket cover
Seller: Philosopher's Stone Books, Kingston, NY, U.S.A.
Kesey, Ken. Sometimes A Great Notion. The Viking Press, New York, 1964.
Price: US$506.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st state book in 1st state DJ. Very light bumping to spine head and bottom corner of front board. Very light rubbing at tips of spine extremities and board corners. Else binding clean. "R" stamp on page bottom edges. Some fading/staining to page topstain. Small bit of rippling to top edges of a few pages. A couple tiny specks on end papers. Else pages clean. Inner DJ spine sunned, with some small spots (not visible on outer DJ). 1" mostly closed tear, with resulting crease on bottom edge of front DJ panel. Light rubbing to DJ spine extremities and fold corners, with a few tiny chips and tears to spine head. Very light surface rubbing to DJ front panel and spine. Else DJ clean. ; GFHC1; 628 pages
Seller: Crossroad Books, Eau Claire, WI, U.S.A.
Kesey, Ken. Sometimes a Great Notion. New York: The Viking Press, Inc., 1964.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First editon. "Published in 1964" stated and wiith Viking logo on half title page. No additional edition or printing indicated, Near fine hardback in good plus, if not very good dust jacket ($7.50) with "Photo on back of jacket by Hank Krangler" stated on rear flap. Book has minor, if not trivial spotting to light-green top edge of block. Dust jacket has two closed tears of 5/8 inch each and a 3/16 inch by 3/16 inch chip to top edge of front panel; a 1 inch closed tear, a 1/2 inch closed tear and a number of light and very light hairline creases to bottom one inch of front panel; a 1.25 inch and a 3/8 inch closed tear to top edge of rear panel; and additional moderate, if not minor rubbing/wear to front panel and to spine, corners, edge and fore-edge folds. Only minor, if not trivial additional signs of age/wear/previous use to book and dust jacket. Appears to be boldly signed by author with multi-colored ink on bookplate (4.25 inch by 2.75 inch) affixed to front free endpaper.
Seller: Time Tested Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Ken Kesey. Sometimes A Great Notion (First Edition). Viking, New York,, 1964.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The Viking Press, Inc., New York, 1964. Near Fine in a Very Good Dust Jacket. First printing, First Issue. 628 pages, 8vo. Jacket unclipped with original price of $7.50 intact. This copy has all the first issue points for book and jacket: the photographer's name is misspelled "Hank Krangler" printed vertically on the edge of the jacket's rear flap; Kesey has the two line biography on rear flap; Viking logo appears on half-title page. Light blue-grey cloth boards with dark blue and green-embossed title along spine, blue and green-embossed design of square face with two K's as the eye's pupils on front cover. Minor edge-wear to jacket; rubbing to jacket spine. Book as two or three turned-down pages. Tightly bound with very clean and crisp pages. No marks.
Seller: Dan Pope Books, West Hartford, CT, U.S.A.
KESEY, KEN. SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION. NEW YORK NY VIKING PRESS (THE) PUB 1964., 1964.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: FINE IN NEAR FINE DUST JACKET. WITH PUBLISHER'S LOGO ON THE HALF-TITLE FOLLOWING THE TITLE PAGE D.J. WITH 2 LINE BIO OF AUTHOR ON REAR FLAP & HANK KRANGLER BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT OTHER THAN A SLIGHT BUMP TO THE TOP SPINE CORNER OF THE REAR BOARD. D.J. HAS SOME VERY MODEST WEAR TO CORNERS WITH A FEW TINY EDGE TEARS, LIGHT TANNING TO WHITE AREAS, A TOUCH OF SPOTTING TO THE VERSO, AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. A BEAUTIFUL CLEAN, BRIGHT, UNFADED AND MOSTLY UNRUBBED COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK. FIRST EDITION. Binding is HARDCOVER.
Seller: JOHN LUTSCHAK BOOKS, BURLINGTON, WI, U.S.A.
Kesey, Ken.. Sometimes a Great Notion.. The Viking Press, New York, 1964.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing. First State. A Fine copy in dull grey cloth stamped in green and blue, green topstain, in a Fine black and green dustwrapper, not price-clipped, points minutely rubbed. 628pp. A novel set in the Pacific Northwest, it was successfully adapted by Hollywood in a feature with Paul Newman, Henry Fonda, Lee Remick, Richard Jaeckel and Michael Sarrazin. Q19353
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Kesey, Ken. Sometimes a Great Notion. Viking Press, New York, 1964.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The first edition, published in 1964 by the Viking Press. First issue with the Viking logo appearing on the half title. Inscribed by Ken Kesey, for Lita ' and with Kesey's artwork adorning the inscription. ( appropriately enough displaying a heavy rainfall on forest land. ) Although not released with the same cinematic acclaim as ' One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ', the movie based upon this book ' Never Give and Inch ', was quite exceptional in its own right. A fine example of the book bearing a pinhead sized spot to the top edge.Dust jacket near fine with a slight suggestion of rubbing to the extremities, and a single tiny chip to the edge of the rear flap fold. A very attractive copy of the first printing, inscribed by Ken Kesey.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
Kesey, Ken. Sometimes a Great Notion. Viking Press, New York, 1964.
Price: US$1100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition of Kesey's second novel. Near fine with a slightly darkened spine. The unclipped ($7.50) jacket presents as fine (minor archival repairs to the extremities). Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "To Joe - be careful. Ken Kesey." A very nice copy.
Seller: Paul Johnson Fine Books, IOBA, Temecula, CA, U.S.A.
Kesey, Ken. Sometimes a Great Notion. The Viking Press, New York, 1964.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first issue text and jacket. (Publisher's logo on half title; not variant with logo on second half-title, no priority. Photographer's name spelled "Hank Krangler" on rear flap of jacket, two line author bio.) [viii], 628 pp. Bound in publisher's cloth lettered in green and black, dark green topstain. Fine, vintage bookseller's ticket to rear paste down, in Near Fine dust jacket with light rubbing, small stains to front panel visible only on verso, unclipped ($7.50) with small pencil mark near price. No remainder mark. An attractive copy of the author's second work. APG Kesey 002b.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Kesey, Ken. Sometimes a Great Notion. Viking Press, New York, 1964.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first issue, with publisher's logo on half-title before title page. 1 vols. 8vo. Cloth. Beautiful copy in near flawless, unclipped dust jacket with one very small closed tear in upper edge. In quarter morocco slipcase with chemise First edition, first issue, with publisher's logo on half-title before title page.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.