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.
Signed 1st Edition One Hand Clapping by Anthony Burgess, Published as Joseph Kell
$4775
1 in stock
Categories: Association Copies, Classic Literature, First Editions, Modern Firsts, More than $1000, Signed
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