Anthony Burgess    
A Clockwork Orange / Honey for the Bears.
The Modern Library, 1968. First edition. 436 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 5" x 7.25", is bound in black cloth, with stamped silver lettering to spine and publisher's logo blind stamped on front cover. Book is in fine condition, with solid binding, clean and bright interior. Price-clipped dust jacket has a small closed tear in the upper inside corner of front panel. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover.
""A Clockwork Orange" and "Honey for the Bears" are two of the best-known novels by one of the most talented and prolific contemporary writers. Anthony Burgess spins fables for our time; in a world where language has grown stale, betrayed and misguided, he reconstructs the textures and tones of words, pushing language beyond the banal and cliched to give it totally new impact and meaning.
In "Clockwork Orange" Burgess creates a future society in which the menace of the state is perfectly counterpointed with the violence of the individual as Burgess extracts biting satire from the political and social issues of our time.
In "Honey for the Bears" an English antique-shop owner and his wife come to Russia to sell dresses on the black market. Against a Cold War background of misunderstandings and farcical machinations the Englishman and his wife plumb the depths of their own sexual natures.
Imbued with a series of irony and humor, constantly inventive, Burgess is completely in tune with the moral puzzles and political threats that frighten and bemuse us all."