Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Joseph Heller. Catch - 22. Jonathan Cape, 1962.
Price: US$10.18 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1st UK Edition, some wear to covers and spine, mainly edges and corners, corners a little bumped and worn, top and bottom of spine a little bumped, spine a little grubby, large stain on cover, internally in good condition, pages crisp and clear but slightly yellowing, some light foxing on edges / fore edge
Seller: Neo Books, Sidcup, KENT, United Kingdom
Joseph Heller. Catch 22. Jonathan Cape, 1962.
Price: US$10.47 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1962. Reprinted. 443 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Light dog-earring and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Pen inscription to front pastedown. Binding is slightly loose but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Joseph Heller. Catch 22. Joseph Heller. Jonathan Cape, 1962.
Price: US$10.98 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1962. Reprinted. 443 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pen markings to front free endpaper. Moderate tape marks to free endpapers and pastedowns. Bookseller sticker stuck to front pastedown. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
HELLER, Joseph.. Catch 22.. Jonathan Cape London, 1962.
Price: US$12.81 + shipping
Description: Jonathan Cape, London. 1962. Hardback NO DW. Red cloth boards are soiled and spine is split from upper at head and tail. Page edges browned but contents nice and clean.
Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
Heller, Joseph. CATCH 22. Jonathan Cape, London, 1962.
Price: US$13.23 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Ex-library. usual library markings. tape marks to end papers & dj flaps. brown stain mark to top & bottom of dj spine.
Seller: BOOK COLLECTORS GALLERY, SUMMER HILL, NSW, Australia
Joseph Heller. Catch-22. Jonathan Cape, 1962.
Price: US$13.55 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1962. Reprinted. 443 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over red cloth with gilt lettering. Light foxing and noticeable tanning to pages and free endpapers. More prominent to text block edges. Binding is slightly loose but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has light tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean. Unclipped dust jacket with minor rubbing, chipping and tearing to edges. Moderate tanning and scuffing overall.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Joseph Heller. Catch-22. Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1962.
Price: US$14.41 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1962. Reprinted. 443 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Visible wear and water marks to spine and boards.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Joseph Heller. Catch-22. Jonathan Cape, London, 1962.
Price: US$16.02 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 3rd Printing of 1st edition (all 1962) and bar toning to endpapers and light spotting to block, all is in VG internal order. No inscriptions. Smart pink cloth with bright gilt titling, a little sunned to spine, moreso at foot. Poor d/j, has tape and residue to edges, is worn and toned, with significant loss to spine. Looks marginally better in removable sleeve. 8vo. 443pp
Seller: Dodman Books, Morston, United Kingdom
joseph heller. catch 22. jonathan cape, 1962.
Price: US$19.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: dj: none. book: avg or better minus v faint pattern on spine & faint soiling page edges
Seller: Thylacine Books, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
Joseph Heller. Catch 22. Jonathan Cape, 1962.
Price: US$22.97 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1962. Reprint. 443 pages. Green dust jacket with white lettering over red cloth. Pencil marking to pages on occasion. Previous owner's name to front endpaper. Minimal tanning to endpapers and page edges. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing and marking to boards. Unclipped dust jacket in protective plastic cover. Mild wear, tear and loss to edges and corners. Notable tanning and soiling to DJ.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Heller, Joseph. CATCH 22. Jonathan Cape, London, 1962.
Price: US$26.47 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Previous owners inscription on ffep. Dj chipped with tears, browned & worn at folds.
Seller: BOOK COLLECTORS GALLERY, SUMMER HILL, NSW, Australia
Joseph Heller. Catch 22. Jonathan Cape, 1962.
Price: US$44.83 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Red boards with gold lettering to the spine. Bend to the boards and light foxing to the inside front end. Neat gift inscription to the end paper. Clipped dust jacket with wear to the extremities, specifically to the spine where there are small tears. Now in a new removable protective clear sleeve. No further inscriptions, 443pp clean pages throughout. (Any digital image available on request).
Seller: Books Written By (PBFA Member), Northampton, NTH, United Kingdom
Heller, Joseph.. Catch 22.. Jonathan Cape, London, 1962,1st ed., 1962.
Price: US$59.55 + shipping
Description: h/c + d/j, 21x14cm,443 pages, price clip, shop sticker, some but nibble to folds and rear d/j (1cmx1cm hole), more bug nibble patches to folds and rear d/j, small tears to d/j edges,small pen numbers to rear end paper, scuffs to folds, small heavy scuff to front d/j corner.
Seller: Page After Page, Box Hill, VIC, Australia
Heller, Joseph. Catch-22. Jonathan Cape, 1962.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: the jacket is a colour photocopy from a very good jacket. the original red boards of this book are very marked and worn and the spine has been repaired. there is a split in the binding at the half title page and some netting is showing. this has also been repaired. there are 2 signatures from a previous owner. i described the book as "fair" as most of the damage to the book is covered by the copy jacket. if this was not the case the book would have been described as poor.(rf180). Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Heller, Joseph. Catch 22. Jonathan Cape, 1962.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: First UK issue, in fair-good condition and supplied with a very good facsimile dust jacket. The boards are shelf rubbed and marked, with a few small, repaired tears along the edges. Internally, there are previous owner's signatures under the front board and on the front end page. There is wear and small indentations to the initial pages, but this does not impact the text or integrity of the pages in any way. Some mild marking scattered throughout but the pages remain otherwise neat, crisp and complete. The binding is sound. JK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
HELLER, Joseph. CATCH-22. London : Jonathan Cape, 1962.
Price: US$102.47 + shipping
Description: Second reprint, same year as the first edition, in the excellent and unclipped dust-jacket. Original dark pink cloth boards. Jacket rubbed at ends of the spine. A fresh and sharp copy.
Seller: Worlds End Bookshop (ABA, PBFA, ILAB), LONDON, United Kingdom
Heller, Joseph. Catch 22. Jonathan Cape Ltd, London, 1962.
Price: US$102.47 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First published by Jonathan Cape in the UK in June 1962, this is a third impression of July 1962, a tribute to the book's popularity. Edge wear, some creasing and chipping to top and bottom of jacket and spine, one inch abrasion and loss to bottom of spine, corners and folds rubbed with small loss, slight soiling and browning to back cover and spine, slight lean, not price clipped (21s), small gift insription to ffep, internally clean and tight, overall a vg copy for its age. 443pp. Protected by new film wrapper. With guts of jelly and a whiplash brain, Joseph Heller's hero Captain Yossarion, spends his time in wartime Italy plotting how to survive. A scarce classic.
Seller: The Print Room, Lilley nr Luton, United Kingdom
Heller, Joseph. Catch-22. Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1962.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd., London, 1962.First Edition, First Printing. VERY GOOD+ hardcover book in VERY GOOD- dust-jacket. Not remainder marked. Not price-clipped (21s. net). DJ is the more common second state with five blurbs on the soiled rear panel. Lightly chipped. Not a book club edition. Not an ex-library copy. All of our books with dust-jackets are shipped in fresh, archival-safe mylar protective sleeves.
Seller: Glands of Destiny First Edition Books, Sedro Woolley, WA, U.S.A.
Heller, Joseph. Catch-22. Jonathan Cape Ltd., 1962.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd., London, 1962.First Edition, First Printing. VERY GOOD+ hardcover book in VERY GOOD- dust-jacket. Not remainder marked. Not price-clipped (21s. net). DJ is the more common second state with five blurbs on the soiled rear panel. Lightly chipped. Not a book club edition. Not an ex-library copy. All of our books with dust-jackets are shipped in fresh, archival-safe mylar protective sleeves.
Seller: Glands of Destiny First Edition Books, Sedro Woolley, WA, U.S.A.
Joseph Heller. Catch-22. Jonathan Cape, 1962.
Price: US$147.30 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition second impression from 1962 in near fine condition, no internal markings, pages clean, binding firm, there is minor scuffing and a 2cm closed tear to top rear of jacket, please see pics, jacket in removable protective sleeve.
Seller: Setanta Books, Richmond, SURRE, United Kingdom
HELLER, JOSEPH.. Catch 22.. London; Jonathan Cape; 1962., 1962.
Price: US$165.42 + shipping
Description: First UK Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. 443; bound in original red cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket chipped and damaged on edges, previous owner's inscription on front endpaper, good copy.
Seller: Time Booksellers, Somerville, VIC, Australia
Joseph Heller. Catch 22. Jonathan Cape., London., 1962.
Price: US$169.07 + shipping
Description: Very good in like dust jacket. A very fresh, gift quality copy, looks unread, no inscriptions, not price-clipped, no tears to DJ.
Seller: Sapience Bookstore, Hexham, United Kingdom
Heller, Joseph. Catch 22. Jonathan Cape, 1962.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Early printing. Red cloth. Book has some light wear and bumping to corners, slight cock to spine, otherwise very clean, clean and bright, with a solid binding and clean pages. Dust jacket has very light wear to corners, hint of toning to spine and back. otherwise clean and attractive, now protected in a clear cover. Photos on request. Also includes four postcards with cartoon illustrations of characters from the book.
Seller: Recycle Bookstore, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
Joseph Heller.. Catch-22.. Jonathan Cape, London, 1962, 1962.
Price: US$224.15 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Hardback. 1st UK edition, 1st impression. Original red boards clean and bright, light foxing-spotting to fore-edge, otherwise very good indeed. 2nd state dust jacket by Germano Facetti with very slight fading at spine, very slight edge wear and fading, neatly price-clipped. Previous owner bookplate to front pastedown.
Seller: ROBIN SUMMERS BOOKS LTD, Aldeburgh, United Kingdom
HELLER, JOSEPH. Publicity material for Catch-22. Jonathan Cape, London, 1962.
Price: US$224.15 + shipping
Description: Spoof letters from the respective chairmen of the UK and USA publishers pointing up their rivalry over who was leading the sales race for the runaway best-seller; [On Simon and Schuster letterhead]"Come on! Don't let the English beat us! Overnight, while America slept, `Catch-22' became #1 bestseller in England. To help close the Catch gap we're running this full-page ad in the [New York] Times Book Review, July 29th. Over the top ,Yanks!" Together with an off-print or mock-up of the advertisement in broadside format. "And now from England a new rush of applause for JOSEPH HELLER'S CATCH-22" with excerpts from numerous glowing reviews including from Graham Greene and Philip Toynbee. Folded once for mailing and lightly creased but a nice copy of a scarce piece of ephemera.
Seller: Peter Grogan, London, United Kingdom
Heller (Joseph). Catch-22. Jonathan Cape, London, 1962.
Price: US$256.17 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First UK edition. 8vo. Original red boards. Dust-jacket, priced 21s. First UK edition of Heller's famous satirical war novel, the title referring to an inherent vicious circle that ensures the story's airmen cannot escape their duty even if they are mentally unfit to fly. Ink name to front endpaper; minor sunning to boards at head of spine; jacket a little worn at spine ends and fore-corners, otherwise very good.
Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, NOTTS, United Kingdom
Joseph Heller. Catch-22. Jonathan Cape, London, 1962.
Price: US$294.60 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First published in Great Britain June 1962,reprinted July 1962,reprinted July 1962,reprinted September 1962,reprinted 1962. Unread.Also includes the rare four promotional cards laid in.Unclipped second state d/w ( with five reviews on the back) in protective plastic sleeve.Book red boards,gilt lettering to spine,page edges and contents clean and bright.All Postcards in fine condition.
Seller: eclecticbooks, BOLTON, United Kingdom
Heller, Joseph. Catch-22 (1st UK edition). Jonathan Cape, London, 1962.
Price: US$297.76 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First UK Edition in FIRST STATE jacket [Jonathan Cape, 1962] of Joseph Heller’s classic anti-war novel. Octavo; hot pink papered boards, gilt titling on spine; covers lightly marked & bumped; top edge a little marked; trifling signs of handling, ink name on ffep; a very good copy with the good, price-clipped, [rare] first-state dustjacket a little worn, chipped & torn with minor loss, thin blue ballpoint pen decorating the word 'Catch' on front panel, rear panel stained & marked. Dustjacket is particularly scarce first-state, with a 28-line section of the text reprinted on the rear panel [no reviews].
Seller: Orchard Bookshop [ANZAAB / ILAB], Adelaide, SA, Australia
HELLER, Joseph.. Catch-22.. Jonathan Cape, London., 1962.
Price: US$320.22 + shipping
Description: First U.K. edition. Octavo. 443 pages. The author's first book. He didn't write another novel for thirteen years. Apparently, he was once asked why he had never written anything else as good as Catch-22; ''Who could?'' was the reply.Prelims and edges spotted. Very good in very good spotted dustwrapper rubbed and nicked at edges.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Heller, Joseph (1923-). Catch-22. London : Jonathan Cape, 1962.
Price: US$323.40 + shipping
Description: Scattered, marginal foxing to the prelims and terminal leaves. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper (NOT price-clipped), now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 443 pages; Subjects; World War, 1939-1945 - United States - Fiction. The phrase, now maddeningly misused by politicians and DJs alike, came from this wonderfully dark and cynical anti-war novel of the 1960s. (Catch-22 states that a man can be exempted from bombing missions if he is mad; but that the desire to be exempted is proof that he is sane.) The novel is as funny as it is bitter. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
HELLER JOSEPH. Catch-22. Cape, London, 1962.
Price: US$352.24 + shipping
Description: A set of the four Promotional Cards issued by the Publisher to promote this book. On the rear of each card is printed: "If you want to tell more of your friends about Joseph Heller's Catch-22, write to the publisher Jonathan Cape Ltd., 30 Bedford Square, London W.C.1 for more of these postcards". VG examples (foxed in places). Note: On offer here is just the Promotional Postcards and NOT a UK first edition of the book itself. Scarce Catch-22 Ephemera.
Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom
Heller, Joseph (1923-). Catch-22. London : Jonathan Cape, 1962.
Price: US$364.00 + shipping
Description: Scattered, marginal foxing to the prelims and terminal leaves. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper (NOT price-clipped), now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 443 pages; Subjects; World War, 1939-1945 - United States - Fiction. The phrase, now maddeningly misused by politicians and DJs alike, came from this wonderfully dark and cynical anti-war novel of the 1960s. (Catch-22 states that a man can be exempted from bombing missions if he is mad; but that the desire to be exempted is proof that he is sane.) The novel is as funny as it is bitter. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
HELLER, Joseph. Catch-22. London: Jonathan Cape (1962)., 1962.
Price: US$384.26 + shipping
Description: First English edition, 8vo, 443, (1) pp. Cloth, second state d.w., not price clipped, spine and lower wrapper a little browned and soiled.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Joseph Heller. Catch 22. Jonathan Cape, 1962.
Price: US$422.69 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First UK edition, first impression. Red cloth, gilt titles, unclipped 2nd state dustjacket printed 21s. net. Condition: Very good. A small tear to the cloth along the top front corner. Very faint fade mark to top of boards near spine, with corresponding red dye bleed-through to inside of dj, and to endpapers. Slight age-toning with spotting to edge of text block. Dj with edge wear and small losses. Now protected in a removable plastic sleeve. No inscriptions. Size: 8x5.5in / 20x 14cm. 443pp. Weight: 455g.
Seller: Paperworks, Plymouth, United Kingdom
HELLER, Joseph.. Catch-22.. Jonathan Cape, London., 1962.
Price: US$448.30 + shipping
Description: First U.K. edition. Octavo. 443 pages. The author's first book. He didn't write another novel for thirteen years. Apparently, he was once asked why he had never written anything else as good as Catch-22; ''Who could?'' was the reply.On the front free endpaper is the contemporary (1962) ownership inscription of Peter Hope Lumley who was a well-known figure in the London fashion world of the fifties and sixties. Cover edges a little bruised. Very good in very good second-state dustwrapper (with five blurbs by other authors on rear panel) a bit spotted and rubbed at the edges.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Heller, Joseph. Catch 22. Jonathan Cape, London, 1962.
Price: US$448.30 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1st UK Edition. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Heavy spotting to reading/top hard edges. Light spotting to bottom hard edge. Spotting to dust jacket. Sunning to spine. Size: 8vo
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Joseph Heller. Catch-22. Jonathan Cape, London, 1962.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller. 1962 first UK English edition, first printing. Original cloth, fractional bumping to spine head, second state dust-jacket (with five reviews on lower panel), 2 tiny tears and faint creasing to top edge, overall a near fine copy.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Heller, Joseph. Catch 22. London Jonathan Cape 1962, 1962.
Price: US$672.45 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Published by Jonathan Cape in London, 1962. This is a near fine copy. The dust wrapper is bright and clean throughout, though with some slight toning to the rear panel and very (very!) slight sunning to the spine. It has been neatly price clipped but retains the original price of 21s. There is a small closed tear to the top edge. The corners are lightly bumped. Five reviews to the rear panel. The boards, in publisher's red cloth, are bright and free from notable chips and marks. There is a medium previous owner's inscription to the front fly leaf in blue ink, dated to the year of publication. The text blocks are bright and white throughout and free from foxing. Overall, this is a near fine copy. Catch 22 is a satirical war novel. The novel was first published in 1961 and is a classic of American literature.
Seller: John Atkinson Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Harrogate, United Kingdom
Heller, Joseph. CATCH - 22.. Jonathan Cape, London, 1962.
Price: US$675.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 443 pages of text. Three quarter leather binding with gilt-stamped spine. New endpapers. The original maroon cloth backstrip/spine has been affixed to a new rear endpaper. A few minor spots of staining/soiling scattered to a few dozen closed page edges and two pages with tiny creases to the lower corner. Joseph Heller (1823-1999). First edition, first printing with no further printings noted on the copyright page.
Seller: Kurt Gippert Bookseller (ABAA), Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Joseph Heller. Catch 22. Jonathan Cape, London, 1962.
Price: US$849.95 + shipping
Description: Hard cover with unclipped dj. 8vo. First Edition. 443pp. Clean unmarked text. Very good boards and binding. DJ shows light shelf wear. Fine addition to any collection. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Seller: History Bound LLC, Mendota, MN, U.S.A.
HELLER, Joseph (1923-1999). Catch-22. London: Jonathan Cape, 1962, 1962.
Price: US$1018.29 + shipping
Description: [Wartime satire] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x14cm), pp.443; [1]. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine, top edge tinted green, second issue dust-jacket, with five reviews replacing the section of the text reprinted on the rear cover. Slightest sign of shelf wear to the cloth. Dust-jacket shows very well with just a couple of thumb marks to the rear panel, slight toning to the spine, and a little creasing to the top edge. Near fine. American author and former combat pilot Joseph Heller's defining work; the satirical anti-war novel, set in Italy during the Second World War.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Joseph Heller. Catch-22. Jonathan Cape, London, 1962.
Price: US$1018.29 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A bright first impression copy of Joseph Heller's culturally important World War Two novel. A first edition, first impression.In the original unclipped second issue dust wrapper dust wrapper.'Catch-22' is a significant war and bureaucracy satire novel, set during the Second World War. The title of this book has know become a synonym for an absurd or contradictory choice.Written by Joseph Heller, who is best known for this novel.'Catch-22' is considered to be one of the most significant novels to be published in the twentieth century, and follows the anti-hero Captain John Yossarian, a U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 bombardier from 1942 to 1944. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart. Very light bumping and fading to the head and tail of the spine. Mark to the recto of the front endpaper. Dust wrapper is smart, with very minor edge wear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Institutional stamp to the verso of the title page. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Joseph Heller. Catch-22 (signed by author). Jonathan Cape, 1962.
Price: US$1100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller. Jonathan Cape, 1962 first UK edition reprint, signed by the author to front free endpapers, other ownership signature to endpapers, original boards, second issue dust-jacket, light creasing and chipping to extremities, spine a little scuffed, short tears and nicks to upper edge, lightly browned.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Price: US$1216.82 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The First UK printing published by Jonathan Cape, London in 1962. The BOOK is in Very Good+ condition. Very slight lean. Original cloth boards with a little fading at the spine ends mirroring loss to the wrapper. Light toning to the text-block. Paper clip indentations to the upper edge of the first handful of pages. Some very light spotting to the prelims and rear pastedown. Pencilled 'Review' to the upper front blank end-paper and pencilled 'Review 14/6/62' to the rear upper pastedown. The WRAPPER is complete and is in Very Good- condition. It is the very scarce First Issue without the review blurbs to the rear panel. Some loss to the spine ends and corners, rubbed and creasing in places, with moderate toning to the spine and edges. The odd age related marking and a few closed tears. Despite these issues, the wrapper still presents well in a removable Brodart archival cover. Loosely inserted are two publisher's Promotional Postcards (Captain Yossarian and Lieutenant Milo Minderbinder) which are in Very Good condition with some toning and spotting. A collectible copy of this author's classic title. Extremely scarce to find the book issued with the correct first issue wrapper in any condition, as is the case here with this book being a review copy. Most copies extant have the later issue wrapper with review blurbs to the rear panel. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.
Seller: Ashton Rare Books ABA : PBFA : ILAB, Market Harborough, United Kingdom
Joseph Heller. Catch-22, UK First Edition, Signed. Jonathan Cape, 1962.
Price: US$1995.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Catch-22, by Joseph Heller. 1st Edition, 1st Printing, British Edition. Jonathan Cape, 1962. SIGNED BY HELLER. Condition: Very Good/Very Good. Book is in very good condition. Foxing to page edges. Internal pages clean. Jacket with some foxing and slight wear.
Seller: JayLin Books, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Heller, Joseph. Catch 22. Jonathan Cape - London, UK, 1962.
Price: US$3825.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: London: Jonathan Cape, 1962. First UK Edition. 443pp. Hardcover: NEAR FINE. Dust Wrapper: NEAR FINE. Book has richly colored boards and a tight spine; modest foxing on the text block, as well as a small smudge on the front board. The unclipped wrapper is superb, with minor color loss and toning. Included are four original postcards associated with the publication of the book. SIGNED by the author. Catch 22 is frequently cited as one of the greatest literary works of the twentieth century. The novel is set during World War II, and looks into the experiences of Captain John Yossarian and the other airmen in the camp, who attempt to maintain their sanity while fulfilling their service requirements so that they may return home. The phrase Catch-22 has entered into the English language, referring to a dilemma or difficult circumstance from which there is no escape because of mutually conflicting or dependent conditions. In the novel, airmen who were crazy were not obliged to fly missions, but anyone who applied to stop flying was showing a rational concern for their safety, and was professed to be sane. The novel is the basis for the 1970 film starring, among others, Alan Arkin, Richard Benjamin, Paula Prentiss, Charles Grodin, Jon Voight, Art Garfunkel, Bob Newhart, Anthony Perkins, Martin Sheen, and Orson Welles.
Seller: Bynx, LLC, Orlando, FL, U.S.A.