8vo. Half-title. Original cloth stamped in green and blue; in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (some light soiling, partial tear to front flap fold, rubbing).

SIGNED BY KESEY.

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, with the Viking logo on the half-title. In a FIRST STATE dust jacket with Hank Krangler's photographer credit on rear flap. Sometimes a Great Notion was Kesey's second novel and was considered by critics to be his best work despite the popularity of his previous work, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.