Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey, First Edition (45 results)

paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Ed. Used - Very Good.

Condition: Good. 1964. First Edition. 628 pages. No dust jacket. Grey cloth. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have noticeable edge wear with corner bumping and rubbing to surfaces. Mild sunning to spine and edges with some crushing to ends. Light fraying to cloth at spine ends.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good first edition. Library binding. Markings to front pastedown, end paper. Library stamp to top right corner of front pastedown. Library stamps to title page, copyright page. Library pocket to rear endpaper. Library stamps to rear pastedown, page 628. Discolouration to textblock. Some light age-toning throughout. A first edition copy of Ken Kesey's esteemed novel, in a library binding.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Viking Press July 1964 Binding: Hardcover TRUE FIRST EDITION WITH UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET, VIKING LOGO ON HALF TITLE AND PHOTO CREDIT TO HANK KRANGLER ON DJ, A FEW SMALL CHIPS TO DJ, OTHERWISE VERY GOOD $NRP.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. hardcover in DJ with $7.50 price protected by clear book jacket cover, first published in 1964 by the Viking Press as stated, publisher colophon on half-title page, 2 line author bio on rear inside DJ flap with Krangler photo credit, 628 pages, no handwriting or remainder mark, repair to DJ chips beneath book jacket cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Fair first edition inscribed by Ken Kesey on the front endpaper, dated 1985. Wear to spine ends, edges, corners. Slight lean to spine. Residue of previous owner's inscription to front pastedown. Glue residue to top and bottom of front and back boards, as well as front and back endpapers. Residue from removed library pouch to back endpaper. Small area of loss to center of title page, where the remainder of a library stamp is visible. Good dust jacket. Price-clipped. Some creasing along edges, bumping to spine ends. Small area of loss to bottom of spine, reinforced with small piece of tape. Glue residue to bottom of interior of spine. Basis for the Paul Newman movie. Overall a still desirable inscribed first edition. Signed by Author(s).

First edition, 8vo, brown/gilt to spine, 628pp, VG+ (v.sl.bruising to corners and a little light rubbing to spine head, previous owner's name at front paste-down, a little very light foxing to edges and prelims) in VG d/w (price clipped, sl.lamination lifting along front of spine, sl.wear to spine at extrem. with 2 small closed tears to head).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Facsimile; facsimile. Qtr bound in green cloth over black boards; jacket identical to first edition; but no price on flap; 8.6 X 5.9 X 1.9 inches.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Discreet ex-library copy, with moderate glue stain in front fly from a removed bookplate, and faint remnant of a pocket on rear endpaper, very good in near fine modestly rubbed dust jacket. Author's second book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. A novel. The author's second book. First edition. Very good in a poor (about half of the rear panel and spine are missing, edge worn and chipped) dust jacket.; 628 pages.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, Second Printing. A lovely copy of Kesey's second book. A bright, unclipped dust jacket and a bright, tight and clean book. This is the 2nd printing of the first edition printed in August, 1964. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. DJ is NOT price-clipped. This book is pristine, with no prior ownership indications whatsoever. No visible wear at all on the linen-covered boards.The lettering remains bright and fresh both to the front board and the spine. NO BLEMISHES on this book other than the chipped dust jacket. An extremely sharp copy of the true first edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Viking. New York. 1964. 628 pages. First edition reprint in same style and appearance as the first printing from 1964. The only difference between the two is this DJ has no $7.50 price printed on flap; and there is a barcode on rear. First printing has light-colored speckled cloth covered panels; this edition has black paper-covered boards quarterbound with a green binding. FFEP has a tiny faint sliver of discoloration along edge of FFEP (barely visible.) Book is near fine in a fine DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. VERY GOOD DUST JACKET: Chipping to top and bottom of spine and all outside corners, as well as top edges of flaps. Voids present at top left of spine, and bottom outside corner, back panel. Several small closed tears: bottom edge, front (2), top outside corner, back. NOTE: Tears mended on reverse with archival tape. In first 2 pics, paper insert placed inside for improved appearance. BOARDS: Small bump, top left corner of spine. BOOK: Nice topstain. Minor indents to textblock foot edges. Minor offsetting/tanning to endpapers w/blank paper label affixed to FFEP (repair); minor damage to reverse of same. Please inspect photos and read description carefully for condition details. More pics available on request. ************************************* Here on offer is a very nice copy of Ken Kesey's second novel: Sometimes A Great Notion, what many critics consider his magnum opus. This copy is a true 1st American edition, 1st printing of the work published by The Vikiing Press in 1964. The dustjacket is protected from further wear by a Mylar sleeve. ****************************************** "The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' ***** Following the astonishing success of his first novel, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest', Ken Kesey wrote what Charles Bowden calls 'one of the few essential books written by an American in the last half century.' This wild-spirited tale tells of a bitter strike that rages through a small lumber town along the Oregon coast. Bucking that strike out of sheer cussedness are the Stampers. Out of the Stamper family's rivalries and betrayals Ken Kesey has crafted a novel with the mythic impact of Greek tragedy." //////////////////////////////////////////////////// Ken Elton Kesey (September 17, 1935 November 10, 2001) was an American novelist, essayist and countercultural figure. He considered himself a link between the Beat Generation of the 1950s and the hippies of the 1960s. ///// Kesey was born in La Junta, Colorado, and grew up in Springfield, Oregon, graduating from the University of Oregon in 1957. He began writing One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in 1960 after completing a graduate fellowship in creative writing at Stanford University; the novel was an immediate commercial and critical success when published two years later. . . . ///// Kesey's second novel, Sometimes a Great Notion, was a commercial success that polarized some critics and readers upon its release in 1964. An epic account of the vicissitudes of an Oregon logging family that aspired to the modernist grandeur of William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha saga, Kesey regarded it as his magnum opus. . . . ///// When the 1964 publication of his second novel, Sometimes a Great Notion, required his presence in New York, Kesey, Neal Cassady, and others in a group of friends they called the Merry Pranksters took a cross-country trip in a school bus nicknamed Furthur. This trip, described in Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (and later in Kesey's unproduced screenplay, The Furthur Inquiry), was the group's attempt to create art out of everyday life and to experience roadway America while high on LSD. . . . ///// Between 1974 and 1980, Kesey published six issues of Spit in the Ocean, a literary magazine that featured excerpts from an unfinished novel (Seven Prayers by Grandma Whittier, an account of Kesey's grandmother's struggle with Alzheimer's disease) and contributions from writers including Margo St. James, Kate Millett, Stewart Brand, Saul-Paul Sirag, Jack Sarfatti, Paul Krassner and William S. Burroughs. . . . ********** The above text derives from, respectively, Penguin Publishing Group (via Google Books) and Wikipedia.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Bright, unclipped dust jacket with rubbing to edges, corners and spine ends, nicked at foot of spine, in mylar cover. Tight binding, solid boards with sharp corners, bright blue lettering to spine strip, clean, unmarked pages throughout. 1st edition, 1st printing, with Viking logo to half title page, "Photo on back of jacket by Hank Krangler." 1st edition, 1st printing.

Cloth Bound. First Edition. Viking colophon on half title page preceding title page. Hank Krangler identified as photographer on rear jacket flap. Jacket price $7.50 The book is vg+, tight, clean, with slight bumping to lower corners. The dust jacket is good+ to very good- with the following defects: triangular clip out of front flap below the price, minor small chips along top edge, some edge tears up to 1" long, minor paper loss with tiny chipping along lower edge, some small nicks in jacket along creases, and some rubbing and some dirt specks. This would be a most serviceable first edtion for the budget minded. Clearly it is not a prime copy, but neither is it a copy with hideous defects. A middle of the road copy if ever there were one. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good to Very Good Plus. First American Edition. First printing with rare first state jacket. Nice copy. Unmarked, tight and square. Basis for film which starred Paul Newman and Henry Fonda. Publishers logo shown on half title after title page. Scarce. First state jacket with photographer's name spelled Krangler and two line bio of Kesey on rear flap. Jacket has closed tear about 1 1/4" inch long at bottom of front panel, light to moderate edgewear and tiny chip on rear panel at top. A clean copy. In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First printing. First state with publisher's logo on half title. Photo credit on jacket to "hank Krangler". Fading to top 1" of book spine. Green dyed top edge of pages has droplet mottling. Book is solid and square. Fragile jacket paper has uniform thumb creasing. Black portions of panels have very little rubbing and therefore attractive. Jacket is not price-clipped, but a few ink letters are written around the $7.50 price. Front flap has a diagonal crease and rear flap a couple of 1/2" tears to top edge.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. FIRST. A NEAR FINE FIRST EDITION first PRINTING IN near fine DJ. first issue dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition in a first state dust jacket, hardcover with top edge stained green, pages were not all cut to the same length and are jogged to the head leading to a touch of creasing to tail edge of some pages and a faint crease to lower corner of text block, book has a tiny skew to the binding, minor bumps to spine ends and cover corners, and slight sunning to spine with a touch of fading to head of text block, otherwise a solid, tight, clean VG+ copy in a VG unclipped dust jacket, which has moderate bumps with very short chips and tears to spine ends and corners, some edgewear with a small chip to head of front cover with a thin crease to back cover from upper corner, a touch of sunning to the spine, and areas of light rubbing. Jacket is wrapped in a removable Mylar cover. Additional images available upon request.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. First Edition. First issue of Kesey's scarce second novel with the Viking logo on the half-title page. Photo of Kesey on rear panel credited to "Hank Krangler" on edge of rear flap. VG+/VG- in blue and green speckled cloth stamped in blue and green on front boards and spine in a lightly edge-rubbed dustjacket printed in green, blue and white. A solid, collectable copy of this scarce book. First Edition.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Issue, with the publisher's imprint on half title; no second half-title, photographer's name spelled "Hank Krangler" on rear flap of jacket, two line author biography rear flap. Kesey's second novel, filmed in 1971, starring Paul Newman, Henry Fonda, and Lee Remick. Near Fine, top edge lightly soiled, in a Very Good dust jacket, small chips and small closed edge tears. . Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1st state book in 1st state DJ. Very light bumping to spine head and bottom corner of front board. Very light rubbing at tips of spine extremities and board corners. Else binding clean. "R" stamp on page bottom edges. Some fading/staining to page topstain. Small bit of rippling to top edges of a few pages. A couple tiny specks on end papers. Else pages clean. Inner DJ spine sunned, with some small spots (not visible on outer DJ). 1" mostly closed tear, with resulting crease on bottom edge of front DJ panel. Light rubbing to DJ spine extremities and fold corners, with a few tiny chips and tears to spine head. Very light surface rubbing to DJ front panel and spine. Else DJ clean. ; GFHC1; 628 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First editon. "Published in 1964" stated and wiith Viking logo on half title page. No additional edition or printing indicated, Near fine hardback in good plus, if not very good dust jacket ($7.50) with "Photo on back of jacket by Hank Krangler" stated on rear flap. Book has minor, if not trivial spotting to light-green top edge of block. Dust jacket has two closed tears of 5/8 inch each and a 3/16 inch by 3/16 inch chip to top edge of front panel; a 1 inch closed tear, a 1/2 inch closed tear and a number of light and very light hairline creases to bottom one inch of front panel; a 1.25 inch and a 3/8 inch closed tear to top edge of rear panel; and additional moderate, if not minor rubbing/wear to front panel and to spine, corners, edge and fore-edge folds. Only minor, if not trivial additional signs of age/wear/previous use to book and dust jacket. Appears to be boldly signed by author with multi-colored ink on bookplate (4.25 inch by 2.75 inch) affixed to front free endpaper. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The Viking Press, Inc., New York, 1964. Near Fine in a Very Good Dust Jacket. First printing, First Issue. 628 pages, 8vo. Jacket unclipped with original price of $7.50 intact. This copy has all the first issue points for book and jacket: the photographer's name is misspelled "Hank Krangler" printed vertically on the edge of the jacket's rear flap; Kesey has the two line biography on rear flap; Viking logo appears on half-title page. Light blue-grey cloth boards with dark blue and green-embossed title along spine, blue and green-embossed design of square face with two K's as the eye's pupils on front cover. Minor edge-wear to jacket; rubbing to jacket spine. Book as two or three turned-down pages. Tightly bound with very clean and crisp pages. No marks.

Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, 628 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine black with green lettering. Dust jacket protected in mylar covering, with price uncut: "$7.50." Minor shelf wear. Chipping and scuffing to dust jacket. Top edge of textblock dyed green, though faded. Light toning to interior pages. DL consignment. Shelved in Case 6. 1390366. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

First edition. Inscribed first printing of the great Pacific Northwestern novel, a multigenerational logging epic that did for Oregon what Faulkner did to Mississippi. Though often eclipsed by ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST, its louder, flashier, more famous older brother, SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION was, in Kesey's own opinion, his masterpiece. "It's my best work," he told THE PARIS REVIEW, "and I'll never write anything that good again." The novel was selected by the SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER as the most essential of its 12 Essential Northwest Books, and Oregonian writer Robin Cody called it "the best big book we have. [.] No Northwest writer before or since has come within an ax-throw of Kesey's massive novel, which strikes to the very soul of what it means to live here." 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original speckled grey cloth, stamped in blue and green. Green topstain. In original unclipped ($7.50) green and black dust jacket designed by Paul Bacon. 628 pages. Inscribed by Kesey on half-title page with elaborate multicolor stamping and marker drawing. Scuff mark and previous owner's stamp to front free endpaper. Light edgewear to jacket, with two small chips to front panel. Minor bumping to boards. Near fine in very good plus jacket.

628 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First edition, second issue, with publisher's logo on half-title after title page. 628 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Grey cloth. In slightly worn clipped dust jacket with scotch tape on top of spine First edition, second issue, with publisher's logo on half-title after title page.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. First edition, first printing; first issue dust jacket, with "Hank Krangler" misspelling to rear flap. Signed and inscribed by Kesey in purple and orange marker on front free endpaper. Publisher's blue-gray cloth, with author's initial to front board, stamped in blue and green; in its original black dust jacket designed by Paul Bacon, lettered in blue, green, and white, with photo of Kesey to rear panel. Near fine, with very light toning to spine, a small spot of discoloration to top stain, some scratches to bottom edge of text block, some marker from inscription transferred to front pastedown, and a faint bit of marker staining to fore edge of text block; very good unclipped dust jacket, with a chip to head of spine and some other small signs of wear to spine ends, a small chip to bottom edge of rear panel, a small closed tear to bottom edge of front panel, light soiling to rear panel, mild dampstaining to verso of spine (not visible on exterior), and a few nicks to right edge of front flap. Overall, a tight and sturdy copy of this classic piece of American literature, with a strikingly colorful signature. Sometimes a Great Notion is an epic story of betrayal and rivalry, set in the Oregon wilderness. The book follows the Stampers, a logging family that stubbornly continues to cut trees in opposition to unionized workers who are on strike. The book features complex relationship dynamics between members of the family, including ailing patriarch Henry; Henry's tough and strong-minded son, Hank; and Henry's youngest son and Hank's half-brother, Leland, who returns home from attending Yale to seek revenge on Hank. The book's title is taken from Leadbelly's song "Irene Goodnight": "Sometimes I live in the country / Sometimes I live in the town / Sometimes I get a great notion / To jump in the river and drown." While less well-known than Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Sometimes a Great Notion has been hailed by some critics as Kesey's greatest novel. In 1971, The book was adapted into a film directed by and starring Paul Newman, and additionally starring Henry Fonda and Lee Remick. Paul Bacon is a prolific American illustrator and dust jacket designer, best known for his "Big Book Look." Notable dust jackets by him include Joseph Heller's Catch-22 (1961), Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), William Styron's Confessions of Nat Turner (1967), and Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962). Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Superb Immaculate Copy. Fine copy In Like Jacket Without Wear. Stated First Edition.All First Issue points.$7.50 On Flap.His Second Most important Book. Gorgeous Fresh Copy.of This Contemporary Classic.