HELLER, Joseph. Catch-22: A Dramatization. Dell, 1973.

Price: US$455.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: SIGNED by Joseph Heller (1923 1999). Catch 22. [New York: Dell Publishing Co., 1973]. 8vo. Illustrated from photographs of the first play directed by Larry Arrick at the John Drew Theatre. Original publisher's pictorial wrappers. FIRST DELTA EDITION, SIGNED BY HELLER on half title. Joseph Heller's full-length comedy, adapted from his iconic first novel. The story is set in World War II and is peopled with a group of US Army Air Force men one in particular called Captain John Yossarian. The men do what they can in order to survive so they can go home to their families, but their rank superiors keep throwing obstacles in their paths to try and keep them longer. Catch-22 represents the idea of a "no-win" situation no decision or course of action a person makes or takes results in resolution, but rather in a continuation of the confusion one tried to clear up in the first place. The term itself has entered the language as a description of a ridiculously cyclical situation. A fine, tight copy, evidently unread. No writings, bookplates, or markings save for author's signature. Book #Cv2329. $455. We specialize in Rare Ayn Rand, history, and science.

Seller: PEN ULTIMATE RARE BOOKS, Pine Plains, NY, U.S.A.

Ayn Rand. Introduction to Objectivist Epistomology. The Objectivist, Inc., New York, 1973.

Price: US$1999.95 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Condition: very good with slight shelf wear Pamphlet text first published in The Objectivist July, 1966 - February, 1967. Signed by the author in an inscription: "To _ Wishing you "best premises" and success Ayn Rand 3/30/73"

Seller: BookHome, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.