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A Clockwork Orange.

BURGESS Anthony.

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Stock No.: 227553
Published: 1962

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This is a rare or used book from the Berkelouw Rare Books Department.

London: Heinemann 1962. Octavo in first issue black cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine. Complete with first issue dust jacket (slightly chipped) designed by Barry Trengrove with larger flap and 16s. price unclipped. (viii 196pp.). Original owner's bookplate on front endpaper. This is a very good copy of the rare first edition. A Clockwork Orange is Burgess' most controversial and alarming work set in a future London beset by authoritarianism extreme violence and technological excess narrated in Nadsat a Russian-influenced slang of Burgess' own devising. As is written on the inside flap "As the genial Alex himself might put it: 'It is a horrorshow story which will either make you smeck like bezoomny or bring the old tears to your glazzies.'" Stanley Kubrick released his classic film adaption of the novella in 1971.

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Published: 1962

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