[McMURTRY, Larry (1936-2021), his copy]. KESEY, Ken (1935-2001). Sometimes a Great Notion. New York: The Viking Press, [1964]. FIRST EDITION, McMURTRY?S PERSONAL REVIEW COPY, with McMurtry?s neat pencil notation on front free endpaper ?Received June 10? and the publisher?s slip laid in with a penciled notation on verso in his hand ?Due July 20?. McMurtry declares himself to be in the minority of those who think that Sometimes a Great Notion is a better book than Cuckoo?s Nest, with the qualifier ?that could be because I heard Cuckoo?s Nest read aloud in class, whereas the second book I reviewed and read carefully.? Laid in with newspaper clippings and a 2-pp. prospectus for the Ken Kesey Defense Fund to cover legal costs for when he and 13 of his friends were arrested on 23 April 1965 at his home in La Honda, California for possession of marijuana.