One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. London: Methuen, 1962. First UK Edition. Pp 311. Brown cloth boards in pictorial dust jacket designed by Kenneth Farnhill with photo of the author to rear. Heavy age-toning & edge-wear to jacket, otherwise a nice bright copy.

Kesey’s first published novel is based on individuals whom he met while working the graveyard shift in the psychiatric ward in a Veterans’ Administration Hospital in California.

Basis for the classic Milos Forman movie with Jack Nicholson.