Burgess, Anthony

8vo (8 x 5 1/4 in; 203 x 133 mm). First edition, primary state binding with black boards, spine lettered in gilt. Small bend to lower right cover. Bright and clean original color pictorial dust-jacket by Barry Tengrove; with a crease to the spine and a some rubbing to extremities. In a quarter morocco clamshell box. 

Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames

A Clockwork Orange is Burgess' dystopian view of a near-future Britain beset by urban violence, technological excess, and authoritarianism. The ending was altered for the American edition published in 1963, with the last chapter being left out; it was not until much later that the novel was re-issued with the original ending restored. The classic 1971 film of the book by Stanley Kubrick was based on the text of the first American edition.