Catch-22
1962, 1st UK Edition. London : Jonathan Cape. Scattered, marginal foxing to the prelims and terminal leaves. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper (NOT price-clipped), now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 443 pages; Subjects; World War, 1939-1945 - United States - Fiction. The phrase, now maddeningly misused by politicians and DJs alike, came from this wonderfully dark and cynical anti-war novel of the 1960s. (Catch-22 states that a man can be exempted from bombing missions if he is mad; but that the desire to be exempted is proof that he is sane.) The novel is as funny as it is bitter. Item #222282
Price: €295.00