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Signed book: Catch-22. First edition, first printing. NY: Simon and Schuster, 1961. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6 x 8.75, 443 pages. Signed and inscribed on the first free end page in blue ink, "To Jerry Broidy, Who supervised my work at Time (even while I was working on this book). Thanks and good wishes. Joe Heller, Oct. 19, 1961, New York, (McCall's Magazine)." Autographic condition: fine. Book condition: VG/VG-, with sunning to spine, and a few edge tears and creases to the dust jacket.
Published in October 1961, Catch-22 introduced one of the defining literary satires of the postwar era and gave the English language a lasting term for an inescapable bureaucratic dilemma. This exceptional presentation copy was inscribed in New York just days after publication to Jerry Broidy, Heller’s former supervisor at Time, Inc., with the author directly acknowledging that he had been writing his landmark novel while working at the media firm.
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