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KESEY, Ken. The Further Inquiry. The Viking Press, New York, 1990.

Price: US$20.00 + shipping

Description: First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 215 pages. Kesey's look back at the Merry Prankster's trip on the school bus "Further." Includes numerous illustrations. A near fine copy in yellow cloth boards with some minor wear in a very near fine dust jacket.

Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.

Ken Kesey / Photographs by Ron Bevirt. THE FURTHER INQUIRY. Viking Press, NY, 1990.

Price: US$21.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Oversize trade paperback with minor wear, clean, no spine crease; an unmarked copy with clean pages.

Seller: North Country Books, Milton, VT, U.S.A.

Kesey, Ken. The Further Inquiry. Viking Press NY, 1990.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition. Uncorrected proof in salmon wraps. Small crease to rear cover, otherwise clean and unread, with 122 pages. This is the full book and not the advance excerpt.

Seller: Gaabooks, West New York, NJ, U.S.A.

Kesey, Ken. The Further Inquiry. [New York]: Viking, [1990], 1990.

Price: US$43.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition. Uncorrected proof. Bound in publisher's original plain salmon wrappers. Spine sunned, otherwise fine.

Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.

Kesey, Ken. The Further Inquiry. Viking Press, New York, 1990.

Price: US$85.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 215pp.; HB yellow w/blue; slight rub w/clean,tight pgs. DJ white w/gray,red&blk.; slight rub w/sml.tear,tp.corner. Kesey's reexamination of the Merry Pranksters' 1964 voyage aboard the bus 'Further'. illus. includes 3x5" card w/Kesey's signature.

Seller: Xochi's Bookstore & Gallery, truth or consequences, NM, U.S.A.

Kesey, Ken. The Further Inquiry. The Viking Press, New York, 1990.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: SIGNED. 215pp. Octavo [23.8cm]. Yellow publisher's buckram spine and boards with sky blue inset illustration on the front board. Spine slightly rolled. Pictorial dust jacket with minor shelf wear. Includes two pieces of laid-in ephemera advertising Key-Z productions. Inscribed by the author on the front free end paper. Inscription reads " For ____/ Further!" and is signed and dated 1990. From Publisher: the Further inquiry is Kesey's reexamination of his adventures on the 1964 voyage aboard Further with The Merry Pranksters, 25 years later in the form of a "trial" of Neal Cassady's spirit - a serious meditation in the sixties and on Cassady. With more than 150 previously unpublished color photos by Ron "Hassler" Bevert, additional images from Allen Ginsberg's collection and verbatim transcripts of key episodes (including classic Cassady monologues. This book is a must-read for all those who recognize the bus and the bus trip as one of the central metaphors and reference points of its era.

Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.

Kesey Ken. THE FURTHER INQUIRY. Viking Press. New York, NY, 1990.

Price: US$139.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: FIRST EDITION HARDBACK SIGNED by KEN KESEY, RON BEVIRT (Photographer) and STARK NAKED aka Cathryn Casamo pg. 47 Book condition is Fine. Dust Jacket is Very Good Plus. Not Price Clipped Profusely Illustrated with Color photographs Dust Jacket will be covered with an Acid Free Clear Archival cover. 7.75 x 9.5 Inches in size 215 numbered pages. FIRST PRINTING with a full number line 1-10 of the FIRST EDITION.

Seller: COLLECTIBLE BOOK SHOPPE, Petaluma, CA, U.S.A.

Kesey, Ken. The Further Inquiry. Viking Press, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1990.

Price: US$148.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Signed by Kesey with multi-color gel pen.

Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.

Kesey, Ken. The Further Inquiry. Viking Press, 1990.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: The first edition, published by the Viking Press in 1990. Kesey's tribute to the legendary Merry Prankster Journey - and the inimitable Neal Cassady. The book is illustrated with over 400 photos by Ron Brevirt - as well as a Cassady flip book to the lower fore corner. Both the book and the dust jacket are fine. Review copy with slip, photo and promotional sheet. This copy has been inscribed by Kesey in silver' Further On. Ken Kesey ' . If every author had been as kind as Kesey in inscribing books, the trade would be infinitely more fun.

Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.

Kesey, Ken.. The Further Inquiry.. The Viking Press, New York, 1990.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First Printing. A Fine copy in bright yellow and blue paper covered boards, in a Fine multicolored dustwrapper, not price-clipped, with the magenta color faded along spine panel. 215pp. This copy SIGNED (no inscription) on the front endpaper (with his gaudy marker and stars style). Q18951

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

Ken Kesey. The Further Inquiry (Signed by Ken Kesey, et al.). NY: Viking, 1990.

Price: US$2250.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Very Fine First Edition in like dust jacket of the late author’s typically eccentric, completely whacky and wholly entertaining reexamination of the Merry Pranksters’ 1964 voyage in the psychedelic bus they named The Further. In fact, the book is a marvellous meditation on the sixties and, in particular, the ‘trial’ of the spirit of the famous — or infamous, depending upon one’s point of view — Neal Cassady, the Dean Moriarty character in On the Road and the character whom Kesey called ‘the father of us all’. Book contains more than 150 previously unpublished photos by Ron “Hassler” Bevirt. A wonderful collector’s copy signed by Kesey as well as the following. Chet Helms, Janis Joplin’s producer and friend, one of the two premier San Francisco promoters and founder of The Family Dog (who inscribed it “ I missed the bus“) Paul Krassner (co-founder in 1968 of the Yippies or Youth International Party, political street theatre, father of the of the famed underground press, Merry Prankster, founder/publisher of investigative journalism/satirical magazine The Realist; Mountain Girl (Ken Kesey’s lover, ardent Merry Prankster, & Jerry Garcia’s wife of many years – real name Carolyn Adams); Wavy G[ravy], founder of the Hog Farm Commune & major Counterculture poet; Eileen Kaufman, wife of Beat poet Bob Kaufman; George Walker; Merry Prankster Ken Babbs, Kesey’s best friend & right-hand man – they were inseparable; and Merry Prankster Pat Monahan. Also, on the rear endpaper, Wavy G signed again with the inscription: They say Kesey’s dead but never trust a prankster even underground.

Seller: Mystery Pier Books, Inc.,ABAA, ILAB, ABA, West Hollywood, CA, U.S.A.

Kesey, Ken. The Further Inquiry. The Viking Press, New York, 1990.

Price: US$4500.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition. A uniquely decorated copy, fully marbled in purple, blue, yellow, and green by Kesey on covers as well as edges. Painted signature of Kesey on front free endpaper. According his son Zane, Ken began experimenting with marbling techniques in 1964 while traveling on the bus FURTHUR and dropping acid for the first time. Oil paint floating in a puddle entranced the Merry Pranksters and they began dipping objects into the mixture, creating instant objet d'art. Later in his life Kesey returned to this technique, psychedelically marbling, finishing, and signing around 15-20 books total. This is one of those scarce copies. Near Fine with paint slightly rubbed off extremities. No jacket. A psychedelic lollipop swirl of original art from the acclaimed writer and countercultural icon.

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