BURGESS, ANTHONY. 1917-1993. A Clockwork Orange. London Heinemann, 1962.

The Library of David Lloyd, Part IBURGESS, ANTHONY. 1917-1993.
A Clockwork Orange. London: Heinemann, [1962]. 8vo. Original black cloth with spine titled in gilt, dust jacket. Text block slightly leaning, slight rubbing. Dust jacket with tiny tape repair to upper joint verso. FIRST EDITION, with "25/-net" price sticker (rather than "16s" on front flap). Burgess's classic dystopian novel set in a near-future Britain plagued by "ultraviolence," technological excess and totalitarianism. The basis for the famous Stanley Kubrick film.