Catch 22 Dramatization, First Edition (20 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. The spine has gone through war. Top exterior 2" missing, looks like a clamp with pen size teeth was attached to the top half of the spine, 30 pages in. Same damage to bottom, exterior rear corner, chips missing to cover. That written, text and photographs mostly very good.

Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. All books outside UK sent airmail. PayPal accepted. Original yellow wrappers, black titling. Very slight edge faded on spine. Complete with original price sticker inside front cover.

Hardcover. First Delacorte edition. 228 pgs. Very good hardcover copy in like dust jacket. (828).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Fine But For Bookplate Of The International Theatre Institute Of The United States, On The Front End Paper, And Very Minor Traces Of Use. Internally Fine, Tight And Clean, And Obviously Unread. The Unclipped Jacket Has Some Toning, Light Wear To Extremities And A Chip At Top Of Front Panel.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good +. No Jacket. First Edition. Previous owners address on lower title page. The first performance of Catch-22 as a play was given at the JohnDrew Theatre in East Hampton, NY in July, 1971. A great collectible for Heller's fans.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Near fine with very minor wear in fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Essentially Fine But For A Dusty Top Edge. Internally Tight And Clean. An Apparently Unread Copy, In Unclipped Jacket With Some Toning ( Esp. To The Spine ), A Tiny Chip At Spine Heel, A Scratch In Front Panel At Front Flap Fold, And A Vertical Crease In Back Flap.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Acting Edition, which precedes the trade edition published by Delacorte in 1973. Fine in stapled dull yellow wrappers. 105pp. Heller's own adaptation of his own blockbuster novel, which was adapted by Hollywood in 1970 [Paramount]. Q05016.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Green cloth titled in gilt, stamped in black. First Delacorte printing stated. Fine condition in slightly toned DJ with tiny bit of wrinkling to spine head. Appears unread. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition (so stated). 8vo. 17 page foreword by Heller. Illustrated with b/w halftone photographs of scenes. Dust jacket (unclipped with $5.95 price; short tear). Very good. 228 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Advance copy with publishers press release; two photographs (author's; jacket art by Riccardo Manzi).

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First edition. Heller's own stage adaptation of his first and most famous book. Illustrated throughout with photographs of scenes from the John Drew Repertory Company production in East Hampton, Long Island starring John Pleshette as Yoassarian; David Ackroyd as Major, Major; Rose Arrick as Luciana, et al. 8vo olive-green cloth boards stamped in gilt and black; 228 pages. Bright, crisp and fine with just scant rubbing to author's name on spine; in near fine dust jacket with flattened creasing to front flap and barest wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A dramatization of the novel. Stated first printing. Very good in a very good (age toning, crease to rear flap) dust jacket.; 228 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. Original olive drab cloth, fine in fine dust jacket with the original price intact on the front flap. Slight toning along the edges. This is the nicest copy we have seen.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 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. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First Printing. A Fine copy in olive cloth, in a Fine dustwrapper, not price-clipped. 228pp. This copy is lengthily INSCRIBED by Heller to counterculture hero, writer and satirist Paul Krassner, and SIGNED, dated April 1973, on the half title leaf in green ink. Q20833.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good +. 1st Edition. Tall uncorrected proof copy of this dramatization. Some light age darkening and soiling, someone has printed HELLER along the bottom edge, else a very nice tight copy, most likely never read. Scarce in any condition. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Edition. An unbelievable association copy of Heller's own stage adaptation of his most enduring novel, here inscribed over two pages to Alan Arkin, the actor who played Yossarian in the original movie adaptation. The play based on Catch-22 was written by Heller and first performed in 1971; this version is illustrated throughout with stills from the original cast performance by the John Drew Repertory Company in Long Island, New York. Alan Arkin's son Adam "was cast as all five young men who die" (p. xxiii). Heller's preface, which fills seventeen pages, relates the overall theme of the novel (and play)?"unchecked uses of authority in an atmosphere of war"?to what would be described today as the weaponization of the justice system; in this case against Nixon's opponents. Heller writes about Muhammad Ali, Daniel Berrigan, Dr. Benjamin Spock, Bobby Seale, the Chicago Seven, Daniel Ellsberg, and Angela Davis. That is the context for his inscription: "To Alan Arkin: All the time, you thought it was about war, didn't you? And now it turns out to be about Watergate?at least this does. Look at p. 54 for example, and tell me if you don't think Richard Shithouse Nixon gives a finer performance of Colonel Cathcart than he has ever given as himself. Best wishes and regards. Joe Heller. 5/12/73." xxxiii, 228 pages. First edition (states "First Delecorte printing"). A very good to near fine copy (a bit sunstruck along the top edge of the cloth) in a very good dust jacket, with a couple of short tears and some denting at the top of the spine. Still, given the inscription, is there a better copy?

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; olive green cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in gilt and black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 228pp; illus. Fine in a Near Fine, price-clipped dustjacket, with a vertical crease running the length of the rear flap edge. Dramatization of the author's best-known novel, illustrated with stills from the stage play throughout.

First Edition. Heller's own adaptation of his classic anti-war novel. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, some darkening to white at front panel, small chips at front flap fold corners, crease to front flap. Scarce.