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HELLER, Joseph. Something Happened (Signed First Edition). Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1974.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 569 pages. The third book from the author of "Catch 22." A well received novel that was a finalist for the National Book Award. A close to near fine copy in black cloth boards with an erasure to the front free endpaper and in a near fine dust jacket with some minor wear. Signed by Heller on the front free endpaper and with laid in bookmarer from the Kroch's & Brentano's First Edition Circle.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Heller, Joseph. Something Happened. Alfred A. Knopf, 1974.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: SIGNED STORED NEW
Seller: BooksByLisa, Highland Park, IL, U.S.A.
Joseph Heller. Something Happened. Alfred A. Knopf, 1974.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed. First Edition. Stated first. Inscribed and signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Dust Jacket is in a removable clear plastic (Brodart) protector, shows minor wear. Pages are clean.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Joseph Heller. Something Happened. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1974.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Stated first. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper with no other inscription present. Dust Jacket is fine, clean and bright, and protected in a removable clear Mylar plastic protector.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Joseph Heller. Something Happened. Alfred A. Knopf, 1974.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition; signed by Heller on front free end paper. Clean and bright interior, with some fading and a faint crease to dj spine.
Seller: George Ong Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Heller, Joseph.. Something Happened.. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1974.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A Fine copy in a Fine glossy yellow dustwrapper, price-clipped. SIGNED by Heller on the half title page. 569pp. Heller's highly admired--and underrated, given the fame of Catch-22-- second novel. Q04860
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Heller, Joseph. Something Happened. Alfred A. Knopf, 1974.
Price: US$112.58 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Very good or better in a very good jacket & slip case. Signed and numbered by author Joseph Heller: number# 314 (of 350). FFEP inscribed by previous owner, author John Metcalf. Deckled edges. Top of jacket spine has a 2 inch tear which has been restored by a previous owner with tape on the underside of jacket. Slip case is showing some shelfwear at the top corners. Else, a tight and scarce copy.
Seller: Biblioasis, Windsor, ON, Canada
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Hardcover. 1974. Book and Dust Jacket are in FINE condition. Slipcase has some shelfwear, else Very Good. 569 pages. Alfred Knopf publisher. SIGNED on limitation page by Joseph Heller. #31 of 350 copies. ; 8.30 X 5.70 X 1.90 inches; 569 pages; 8/14/16 indian school; Signed by Author
Seller: Book Gallery // Mike Riley, Phoenix, AZ, U.S.A.
Joseph Heller. Something Happened. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1974.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 569 pp. Tan dust jacket in good condition; one small blemish on the back. Black Cloth boards with blind-stamped title; gilt lettering on spine. Boards in very good condition, spine straight. In a pictorial slipcase in good condition. This is a signed numbered limited edition; Heller's signature is on the page before the title page. Part of a limited run of 350 copies, this copy is numbered 163. It has been printed on specialty paper. Heller's second novel, Something Happened is a satire of business life and american culture.
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.
Heller, Joseph. Something Happened. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY, 1974.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: vi + 570 pp, Stated First Edition. Inscribed to the previous owner "with sincere good wishes from the second-best writer in the room tonight in Alexis and Jack Aldridge's apartment in Ann Arbor, Michigan." Joseph Heller - 1/15/75. Pages clean, binding tight and text unmarked. Black cover cloth crisp, with gilt spine letters slgihtly faded but easily legible. Unclipped DJ with very light wrinkles ard the top edge spine, and one tiny microchip at the upper hinge corner. "I get the willies when i see closed doors." so begins Joe Heller's 2nd novel. His hero, Bob Slocum, has a constant intuition that he's on the outside looking in, and what happened inside ain't good. Size: Octavo
Seller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Heller, Joseph. Something Happened (signed first printing). Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1974.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 1974. 569 pages. First edition stated, first printing. Signed by Joseph Heller directly to FFEP. Book and DJ are fine. $10.00 price intact on DJ flap. Book is crisp in seemingly unread condition. Black cloth is bright and clean. Corner tip is gently pushed (barely.) Heller's first novel after Catch-22. Signed.
Seller: Medium Rare Books, Mountainside, NJ, U.S.A.
Heller, Joseph. Something Happened. Alfred A. Knopf, U.S.A., 1974.
Price: US$140.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine Book & Near FineJacket, light edge wear to the top edge, Signed First Edition First Print in protective cover
Seller: Dallas Surplus Stacks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Heller, Joseph. Something Happened. Alfred A. Knopf, U.S.A., 1974.
Price: US$158.13 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near Fine Book & Jacket, Signed in protective cover
Seller: Dallas Surplus Stacks, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Joseph Heller. Something Happened. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1974.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: Near fine in dust jacket with very light wear along the edge. Signed by Heller.
Seller: Clayton Fine Books, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.
Heller, Joseph. Something Happened. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo, black cloth lettered in gilt; unclipped dust jacket printed in red and black, slightly sunned. First edition. A handsome copy signed by Heller.
Seller: North Star Rare Books & Manuscripts, Sheffield, MA, U.S.A.
Heller, Joseph. Something Happened. Alfred A. Knopf, 1974.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good Hardcover with Very Good dustjacket SIGNED by Joseph Heller, First edition, unclipped DJ
Seller: The Book House, Inc. - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Joseph Heller. SOMETHING HAPPENED -Signed Limited Edition-. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1974.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A virtually mint copy of the slipcased First Limited Edition of Heller's third book, number 8 of 350 copies, signed and numbered on the limitation page. The bottom of the slipcase has two small, faint price sticker shadows, else fine. First American Signed Limited Edition (Number 8 of 350 copies).
Seller: CHARTWELL BOOKSELLERS, NEW YORK, NY, U.S.A.
Heller, Joseph. Something Happened. Alfred A. Knopf, 1974.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover: FINE. Dust Wrapper: FINE. SIGNED by the author. With bookmark laid-in: "First Edition Autographed by the Author Especially for the Members of the First Edition Circle." A finalist for the National Book Award, Heller's second and most underrated book, published 13 years after his iconic first novel, Catch-22.
Seller: Bynx, LLC, Orlando, FL, U.S.A.
Heller, Joseph. Something Happened. Alfred A. Knopf Publ. New York, 1974.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition ~1st Printing Hardcover SIGNED by author on free front endpaper, his second novel; nearly as new in like dust jacket; a crisp square unmarked copy in unclipped dust jacket; clean and bright, appears unread; stated first edition
Seller: David Kaye Books & Memorabilia, Woodland Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Heller Joseph. SOMETHING HAPPENED. New York Alfred A. Knopf 1974, 1974.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, First Issue. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. 8vo, publisher's original black cloth lettered in gilt on the spine panel, in the yellow, red an black decorated dustjacket. [6], 569, [1] pp. A very good copy of the first edition, light age evidence, the jacket with a light bit of rubbing to the edges or tips, small remainder slug to the bottom edge and stamped price to free-fly, still a pleasing copy signed by the author. FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE WITH DATE INTACT AND WITH ORIGINAL PRICE TO THE DUSTJACKET FLAP. Carmen Petaccio referred to this as "one of the most pleasurable, engrossing, and in retrospect moving American novels ever written." Naturi Thomas-Millard called it the "best book you've never read" and Christopher Buckley referred to the work as "dark and brilliant". Though written thirteen years after CATCH-22 it is only Heller's second novel. This was a follow on novel to Joseph Hellers magnificent tour de force, CATCH-22, which along with THE NAKED AND THE DEAD and FROM HERE TO ETERNITY, is considered one of the greatest war novels of the twentieth century. One of the most highly acclaimed novels of war, "described both as a Marx Brothers script written by Franz Kafka, and an All Quiet on the Western Front written by Lewis Carroll." SOMETHING HAPPENED is what 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. (What happens?) Something.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Heller, Joseph. Something Happened. Alfred A. Knopf / Borzoi Books, New York, 1974.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Stated first edition. Signed by Joseph Heller directly on the front-free endpage. Book in fine condition; dust jacket with a couple shallow diagonal creases and a tiny chip to back flap, else fine.
Seller: Idler Fine Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Stated first edition, limited to 350 signed and numbered copies, this being number 332. Signed by Joseph Heller directly on the colophon page. Book in fine condition; dust jacket with faint toning to spine, else fine; and slipcase with faint toning to margins, light staining/soiling, else fine.
Seller: Idler Fine Books, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Heller, Joseph. Something Happened.. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1974.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of this classic work by the author of Catch-22. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Ted Solotaroff, With good wishes (It may read better in print than it did in manuscript.) Joseph Heller." The recipient, Ted Solotaroff was an editor and literary critic. Solotaroff attended the University of Michigan, graduating in 1952, and did graduate work at the University of Chicago, where he became friends with Philip Roth and dedicated himself to literature. He was an editor at Commentary from 1960 to 1966, then in 1967 founded The New American Review, which was an influential literary journal in paperback, not magazine, format for the decade of its existence. After it folded, he became an editor at Harper & Row, where he edited works by Russell Banks, Sue Miller, Robert Bly, Bobbie Ann Mason, and others. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon. An exceptional association. "Bob Slocum was living the American dream. He had a beautiful wife, three lovely children, a nice house.and all the mistresses he desired. He had it all -- all, that is, but happiness. Slocum was discontent. Inevitably, inexorably, his discontent deteriorated into desolation until.something happened.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.