Anthony Burgess

A first edition of A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess.

• Anthony Burgess (British)
• London: William Heinemann, 1962.
• First British edition, first issue.
• Bound in publisher's black cloth with title gilt to the spine, complete with the original first-issue dust jacket.

Burgess’s most celebrated novel and one of the defining works of post-war British fiction, later adapted by Stanley Kubrick for his 1971 film.

The English first edition preserves Burgess’s original twenty-first chapter, omitted from the first American edition. The present example additionally features the characteristic first issue indicators of characteristically wide flaps and the correct 16s net price to the dust jacket's front flap.