Jones, Stephen

Burgess, Anthony. A Clockwork Orange. Heinemann, 1962, 8vo, FIRST EDITION, original black cloth lettered in gilt on spine, some corners turned down, ticket holder to front free endpaper, some adhesive tape marks, bookplate, binding worn at extremities, some abrasions to lower fixed endpaper

WITH AN ORIGINAL DUST-JACKET BY STEPHEN JONES, 213 BY 291mm., wool felt with metal and plastic clockwork elements, signed ("Stephen J") with note by the artist

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Stephen Jones is a leading milliner and one of the defining fashion designers of the past 25 years. Since the early 1980s Jones has collaborated with designers from Vivienne Westwood to Raf Simons. In 2009 he curated the hugely popular exhibition 'Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones' at the V&A Museum.

“I chose Clockwork Orange as it’s a perennial favourite and the film of the book changed my life!”