Signed 1st Edition One Hand Clapping by Anthony Burgess, Published as Joseph Kell

First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. First Edition, First Impression. The Dedication Copy, With the author’s Signed presentation to his wife on the front endpaper in blue ink: ‘To Hazel/for her birthday/28th Sept, 1961/Joseph Kell’ – below which, in red ink, Burgess has printed; ‘Joseph Kell is/Anthony Burgess’.

This is the second book Burgess published under the name Joseph Kell and very scarce with any authorial inscription. A very good copy showing some use in nubby yellow and red spotted cloth, metallic blue titles to the spine in a near fine [presumably supplied], bright blue, price-clipped pictorial dust wrapper.