One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey - Numbered Edition

A landmark of American literature, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey is a vivid and unforgettable portrayal of power, conformity, and the struggle for self-determination. 

When Randle Patrick McMurphy is institutionalized in an Oregon psychiatric hospital, he rallies the other patients of the mental ward around him by challenging the dictatorship of Nurse Ratched. A fun-loving, boisterous fighter, McMurphy promotes gambling in the ward, smuggles in wine and women, and openly defies rules at every turn. But this defiance, which starts as a sport, soon develops into a grim struggle, an all-out war between two relentless opponents: Nurse Ratched, backed by the full power of authority, and McMurphy, who has only his own indomitable will.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest burst onto the scene like a rebel yell that would not be contained, becoming an instant international bestseller and one of the defining works of the 1960s. Hailed upon its publication in 1962 as “a glittering parable of good and evil” (The New York Times Book Review) and “a roar of protest against middlebrow society’s rules and the invisible rulers who enforce them” (Time), Kesey’s intense, propulsive and ultimately harrowing novel has sold millions of copies and remains as bracing and insightful today as when it was first released. 

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest was adapted into a stage play in 1963, and then into a film in 1975, which won five Academy Awards.

The limited edition of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey is presented in three states: Lettered, Numbered and Artist editions.

NUMBERED EDITION

• 6” x 9” trim size.
• 400 Pages.
• Limited to 250 copies.
• Signed by Chuck Palahniuk, Robert Faggen and Federico Infante.
• Foreword by Chuck Palahniuk.
• Introduction by Robert Faggen.
  
• Handbound quarter goatskin binding with a capped fore-edge in the Millimeter style. 
• Cover paper is custom made for this edition and is handmade by renowned paper makers Cave Paper. The paper is made from pigmented pulps of abaca fiber layered onto natural flax base sheets to create painterly abstractions designed to reflect the distinctive atmospheric style of the illustrations. Each sheet is formed and colored by hand with no two covers being exactly alike.
• Head and tail bands are leather.
• Cover label is layered, with a darker base framing the lighter, letterpress-printed title label, adding depth and elegance to the design.
• Endsheets are handmade at the Ruscombe mill in France and are applied by laminating two different colored sheets creating a contrast between the front and back.
• Seven color illustrations by award-winning artist Federico Infante.
  
• Illustrations are printed as giclée fine art prints on Hahnemühle Bugra and tipped-on.
  
• Giclée printed fold-out of the Artist edition jacket illustration is included in this state.
• Printed letterpress on Neenah Cotton paper by Norman Clayton in Ojai, California.
• Interior design & typography by award-winning designer Misha Beletsky.
• Text pages set in Warnock Caption. 
  
• Housed in a clamshell enclosure covered in Dubletta cloth with an offset-printed art print tipped onto the front cover and set into a debossed frame. 
  
• Bookmark with all pre-orders.

Published editions may differ slightly from mockups and prototype designs.
Illustrations © 2024 by Federico Infante.