Sensational First Editions from the 1960s

The 1960s witnessed the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the eruption of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and the invention of the mini-skirt. The decade was politically and culturally explosive and its literature is no different. Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird made its controversial debut in 1960, setting the tone for the decade's book scene. The 1960s produced contentious classics like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (1962) and A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess (1962), titles that have appeared on countless banned book lists alongside Lee's only novel. Catch-22 (1961), Slaughterhouse-Five(1969) and The Bell Jar (1963) are no strangers to banned-book lists either, making the 1960s a very controversial decade for books, indeed. ...

 

First Editions from the 1960s

Big Sur

by Jack Kerouac 
(1962)

Cover Her Face

by P.D. James
(1962)

Franny and Zooey

by J.D. Salinger 
(1961)

A House for Mr. Biswas

by V.S. Naipaul 
(1961)

Dead Cert

by Dick Francis 
(1962)

The Gift

by Vladimir Nabokov 
(1963)

Hell's Angels

by Hunter S. Thompson 
(1962)

Cat's Cradle

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr 
(1963)

The Butterfly Plague

by Timothy Findley 
(1969)

Diary of a Mad Housewife

by Sue Kaufman 
(1967)

Flowers for Algernon

by Daniel Keyes 
(1966)

Setting Free the Bears

by John Irving 
(1968)

The Godfather

by Mario Puzo 
(1969)

A Wizard of Earthsea

by Ursula K. Le Guin 
(1968)

Way Station

by Clifford D. Simak 
(1963)

Something Wicked This Way Comes

by Ray Bradbury 
(1962)

Death of a Naturalist

by Seamus Heaney 
(1966)

A Canticle for Leibowitz

by Walter M. Miller 
(1960)

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

by Philip K. Dick 
(1968)

A Murder of Quality

by John LeCarre 
(1963)

Self Portrait

by Man Ray 
(1963)

Flowers for Hitler

by Leonard Cohen 
(1964)

Alley Jaggers

by Paul West 
(1966)

A Right to Die

by Rex Stout 
(1964)