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KESEY, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. A Novel. New York: The Viking Press, [1962]. First edition, first issue of the author's first book. With first issue points of ("fool Red Cross Woman" on page 9 and "It's the plump Red Cross woman named Gwen-doe-lin." on pages 85-86. Octavo (8 x 5 1/2 inches; 202 x 138 mm). [8], 311, [1, blank] pp. Original bright green cloth lettered in yellow on spine. Top edge stained peach. In the original color pictorial dust jacket designed by Paul Bacon. Jacket is price-clipped. Some very minor rubbing to top and bottom edges of front panel and spine of jacket. Still a fine copy. "Ken Kesey's extraordinary first novel is an exuberant, ribald and devastatingly honest portrayal of the boundaries between sanity and madness." (Good Reads) Ken Kesey was American writer, who gained world fame with his novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962, filmed 1975). In the 1960s, Kesey became a counterculture hero and a guru of psychedelic drugs with Timothy Leary. Kesey has been called the Pied Piper, who changed the beat generation into the hippie movement." (Good Reads) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was also adapted into a movie directed by Milos Forman and starring Jack Nicholson. It won 5 Academy Awards including best picture, director, lead actor, lead actress, and screenplay. HBS 69124. $6,000.

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.