This is a first edition (1962), first printing of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest. The graphic design trends of the early sixties usually don't do much for me, but I really like this.

So if you happen to run into this book -- and it's the real thing -- you should buy it. Because a true first edition in excellent shape? Worth at least three thousand (though the original price, printed on the dust jacket, was $4.95).

Now you're wondering if I found this one at a garage sale. No such luck. And if I did find it for six bucks on some sale table, I wouldn't sell it anyway. I'd put it in protective wrapping and place it on the shelf with my other much cherished first editions to look at it lovingly, but from afar. And then I'd read my ratty old paperback copy.