Books

New York: The Viking Press, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first issue. Octavo: [8], 311 pp. Rear hinge restored, multiple drink rings and stains to the boards, a few small stains in text, a poor copy with jacket flaps glued into the rear blanks (with a supplied first issue dust jacket). An interesting albeit conditionally grubbing copy, with a bookplate on the front pastedown presenting the book to the Los Angeles County Public 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.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a novel written by Ken Kesey, first published in 1962. The book is a powerful critique of the mental health system and a poignant study of institutional processes and the human mind.