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BURGESS, Anthony (“Joseph Kell”) (1917–1993). A Clockwork Orange. London [et al]: Heinemann, [1962]. 8vo. Original publisher’s gilt–lettered black cloth; original unclipped dust jacket priced at 16s (tiny spots of smudging to lower panel, few tiny spots of rubbing along jacket edges, else fine). FIRST EDITION, of the author’s dystopian novel that issued a “futuristic warning against both mindless violence and the mechanical reconditioning that is often proposed as society’s solution to its ills” (100 Banned Books, pp. 368–371). The basis of the Stanley Kubrick film, which was nominated for an Academy Award. In the FIRST ISSUE black cloth binding. Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels 36.