The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. First American edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. SIGNED. 161pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] Black cloth over boards. The extremities are mildly rubbed and the spine is slightly rolled. In a dust jacket, with subtle toning and soiling, and light edge wear. Signed and inscribed (to no person in particular) by author on half-title: "Best wishes, Anthony Burgess" Follow Enderby, "the '"desperately innocent observer"' of Anthony Burgess's Inside Enderby and Enderby Outside, on his last, valiant, buckling legs, lunging away at New York-- and all American culture-- in a last-ditch defense of Art, Original Sin, and Proper Nourishment". (From the jacket).