Anthony Burgess | A Clockwork Orange, 1962, first edition, dust-jacket, with typed sheet signed by the author

Anthony Burgess

A Clockwork Orange. London: Heinemann, 1962

FIRST EDITION, WITH TYPED SHEET INSCRIBED BY BURGESS, 8vo, original boards, first issue dust-jacket, priced at 16s., bespoke grey morocco and marbled clamshell box, head of spine slightly bumped, dust-jacket with small neat tissue repairs at extremities

A NEAR-FINE COPY of this dystopian novel inspired by contemporary hysteria over juvenile delinquency in 1960s England.

The loosely inserted typed sheet is a facsimile of the typescript for the opening of Chapter 1, and is inscribed "Keep on with the good work | Anthony Burgess".