Sold for $254

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Lot Description

HELLER, Joseph (1923-1999). Catch-22. London: Jonathan Cape, 1962.

8vo. Original red boards gilt; dust jacket (some minor soiling and slight rubbing, toning to spine panel, vertical crease to spine panel, corners clipped but price present). Provenance: Hilary Black (signature).

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, in the second issue dust jacket with 5 reviews on the rear panel replacing the section of text reprinted on the first issue jacket. Heller's novel, the title of which "is better known than the book and, indeed, has passed into the language. To avoid a thing you have to accept something worse than that thing: that is Catch-22" (Anthony Burgess, 99 Novels, p.79).

This lot is located in Chicago.

Property from the Estate of David Green Jr.

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