by Anthony Burgess
First edition, first printing
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1963. First American edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's red cloth-affect binding lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light edge wear, offset to endsheets, contemporary former owner's name on front free end paper and rear pastedown. Light foxing to all edges. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with a virtually unfaded spine; light toning to verso. A very presentable copy of a book not commonly found in such nice condition. Anthony Burgess' dystopian novel depicting Alex and his violent Droogs. Later adapted into a chilling, psychedelic film in 1972 by Stanley Kubrick.