Catch-22.
HELLER, Joseph.
Catch-22.
Signed by Joseph Heller
Taiwan:, 1961.
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First edition of the pirated edition published in Taiwan of the author’s classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Joseph Heller on the title page. Near fine in a very good dust jacket with a few small closed tears and some wear to the rear panel.
"Catch-22, Joseph Heller's first and best-known novel, depicts a military world turned upside down. In Heller's World War II, a supplies manager has more power than a general, and anyone seeking a discharge on the grounds of insanity is declared sane enough to keep on fighting. When the novel appeared in 1961, World War II veterans ppreciated its satire of the military bureaucracy and chaos of war. By the mid-1960's, it had become a cult classic among counterculture activists for its biting indictments of war. Many consider the novel to be the definitive statement of the modern antiwar position. The phrase 'Catch-22', symbolizing the bsurdity of all institutional logic, has become a permanent part of our language" (NYPL Books of the Century 177).
