Anthony Burgess — The Clockwork Testament, or: Enderby&Apos;S End
London, Hart-Davis, MacGibbon, 1974. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of the third of Burgess' four Enderby novels, being an account of Enderby's last day alive. First edition. The third volume of the Enderby quartet. A novella acting as an account of the last day in the life of Enderby, a fifty-six-year-old dyspeptic British poet. A cold February day in New York City, where for the past several months he's been working as a visiting professor of English literature and composing a long poem about St Augustine and Pelagius. Written by John Anthony Burgess Wilson, an English writer and composer. Although primarily a comic writer, his dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange remains his best-known novel. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is smart with light wear and the odd small closed tear to the panel edges. Sunning to the spine and extremities with light age toning to the fly-leaves. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Good.