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Heller, Joseph. Something Happened. Random House Inc, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A., 1974.
Price: US$6.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Dj is scuffed, faded on spine. Cover is bumped. Pages are clean and tight. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Top Notch Books, Tolar, TX, U.S.A.
Heller, Joseph. Something Happened. Random House Inc, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A., 1974.
Price: US$7.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Jacket has edgewear. Boards have light shelfwear. Pages are clean & text is free from markings. All pages secure in binding. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Top Notch Books, Tolar, TX, U.S.A.
Heller, Joseph. Something Happened. Random House Inc, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A., 1974.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Previous owner inscription on first end page, and the original New York Times review by Kurt Vonnegut included in envelope taped to the inside of the back board. From that review: "Is this book any good? Yes. It is splendidly put together and hypnotic to read. It is as clear and hard-edged as a cut diamond. Mr. Heller's concentration and patience are so evident on every page that one can only say that "Something Happened" is at all pints precisely what he hoped it would be. . . . As for myself: I can't crack a smile when he says, ostensibly about the positions in which he sleeps, 'I have exchanged the position of the fetus for the position of the corpse.'"
Seller: Anima Books, Fort Washington, MD, U.S.A.
Heller, Joseph. Something Happened. Random House Inc, 1974.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good Hardcover with Very Good dustjacket first edition
Seller: The Book House, Inc. - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Joseph Heller. Something Happened. Alfred A. Knopf, 1974.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Stated First Edition. 1st printing (no number line). 569pp. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread, in FINE condition. Erstwhile remainder has tiny red Random House stamp on text tail, o/w unmarked. "This is Joseph Heller's first novel since Catch-22, which was published in 1961 and has become the most celebrated novel of its decade--speaking for and to an entire American generation. SOMETHING HAPPENED is different from Catch-22 in both substance and tone, but it is certain to have a comparable effect. [] As it opens, he 'gets the willies.' At the end, he has 'taken command.' What happens in SOMETHING HAPPENED happens to Bob Slocum--in his forties, contending with his office (where just about everybody is scared of somebody), trying to come to grips with his wife ('You did it,' she says. 'You made me this way . . .'), with his daughter (she's 'unhappy'), with his son (he's 'having difficulties'), and with his other son, and with his own past and his own present. [] Like his own children, like all children, Slocum once was new, valuable, eagerly waiting to grow into the good life sure to come. Now he is what he is, and his life is what it is. What happened? (What happens?) Something." [jacket copy] "One of the most pleasurable, engrossing, and in retrospect moving American novels ever written . . . The most criminally overlooked great novel of the past half century is a book called SOMETHING HAPPENED."--L.A. Review of Books. Pristine hardcover w/brilliant corners & crisp deckle edges, a square & tight binding, wrapped in a bright & intact jacket covered in archival mylar. Quite presentable.
Seller: Remarks Used Books, Pittsfield, MA, U.S.A.
Heller, Joseph. Something Happened. Random House, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A., 1974.
Price: US$42.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover in jacket with rubbing to jacket.
Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.
Heller, Joseph. Something Happened. Random House Inc, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A., 1974.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description:
Seller: STUDIO V, San Marcos, CA, U.S.A.
Heller, Joseph. Something Happened. Random House Inc, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A., 1974.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A handsome First Edition, First Printing signed by the author and with an interesting provenance. Included in the book is a bookmark from "Kroch's & Brentano's, Inc, 29 South Wabash Avenue, Chicago 60603" that states "1st Edition Circle -- A First Edition, Autographed by the author especially for the member of The First Edition Circle." There is also a contemporaneous name and date, "Rowland Young, 11 October 1974." Kroch's & Brentano's was a bookstore in Chicago. Carl A. Kroch took over the bookstore upon his father's retirement in 1952 and expanded the business to form Kroch's & Brentano's that grew to 20 stores. The company closed in 1995 when Kroch retired and. "Rowland Young" is believed to be Rowland Lee Young, a scholarly writer and editor at the American Bar Association for 31 years. He died in 2001 at the age of 78 in Glendale, Arizona, near where this book was purchased. The date Mr. Young wrote on the front endpaper, "11 October 1974" must have been very close to the release date of the book; the dustjacket date is "10/74." The book is black cloth with an attractive red topstain and is in fine condition. The dustjacket is complete and in fine condition but for light touches of wear on the spine ends. A wonderful copy.
Seller: Parrish Books, Sandy, OR, U.S.A.
Heller, Joseph. Something Happened. Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: Random House Inc, 1974.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The SIGNED LTD ED.Fine in About Fine box, ltd to 350.(Lcst1
Seller: NUDEL BOOKS, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Heller, Joseph. Something Happened. Random House Inc, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A., 1974.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: signed on first white page in blue ink, first & second prinitings before publication 11/16/1974, jacket price $10.00 unclipped, large chip out of back of jacket (I have other first edition jackets for this book if that is an issue)
Seller: beat book shop, Boulder, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Near fine book in nearly new dust jacket, price uncut. Warm dedication, signed and dated by Heller directly on the front-free endpage: "To Angel Capellán with good wishes, Joseph Heller, 12/9/1974". First Edition. Hard Cover. Not common in this condition and dedication.
Seller: LEA BOOK DISTRIBUTORS, Jamaica, NY, U.S.A.