A Clockwork Orange

New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Near Fine in a Good jacket, price present ($3.95) but clipped at the bottom corner, generally toned and soiled, worn at the edges with shallow chips and short tears. Red cloth on the boards, pushed at the top corners, with gilt lettering on the spine. Firmly bound with a forward lean, former owner's signature inside the front board, clean otherwise. The story of Alex and his gang of hooligans who terrorize their city, a horror-comedy elevated "to the level of a brilliant and terrifying fable of good and evil and the importance of human choice." Hailed by TIME and Modern Library as one of the best novels of the 20th century, adapted by Stanley Kubrick into the 1971 film of the same name.