Catch-22. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961



8vo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 ins; 210 x 140 mm). Publisher's blue cloth with white spine title in illustrated dust-jacket; small tear to cloth at spine foot repaired, rear jacket panel a little rubbed with a few intermittent short closed edge tears and some very minor abrading to blue field of front panel. Dark blue calf folding case with airman embossed to front.

small tear to cloth at spine foot repaired, rear jacket panel a little rubbed with a few intermittent short closed edge tears and some very minor abrading to blue field of front panel. Dark blue calf folding case with airman embossed to front.
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First edition, inscribed by Heller on title. A polarizing debut that Heller worked on for eight years, it won no awards at the time but is now widely acknowledged as one of the great novels of the century. Though Heller originally considered other titles (Catch-11 and an early excerpt was titled Catch-17), the final title introduced into the English language a perfect shorthand phrase for bureaucratic absurdity and logical paradox.