A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> of Catch 22, accompanied by a <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a> typescript of the opening passage from the book.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2: 1 book and 1 typescript.</li><li>Joseph Heller (American).</li><li>London: Jonathan Cape, 1962.</li><li>Accompanying the book is a typescript with the opening line: “It was love at first sight”, signed in black ball point by Joseph Heller, headed ‘The Texan’ being Chapter One of Catch 22.</li><li>In an unclipped wrapper, five reviews to the rear panel.</li></ul>

Catch 22 First Edition with Signed Typescript

One-of-a-kind rebinding of the large type edition of Heller's&nbsp;Catch-22.<ul><li>Joseph Heller (American).</li><li>Richard Tuttle (American).</li><li>New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961.</li><li>Included with the book is a signed artist statement by Richard Tuttle on the making of&nbsp;Catch-22.</li><li>Rebound by Tuttle in 2013 in leather from a bomber jacket over sculpted boards with a small animal trap on the front cover and embroidered badges on the front cover and spine.</li></ul> Tuttle creates one-of-a-kind works of art that merge the written word with fine leather, paper, paint, wood and veneer.&nbsp;These original book bindings have been featured in a PBS documentary on the Chicago Art beat. Tuttle describes his work as follows:&nbsp;“I make literary artifacts. They are designed to pull books down off the shelf and display them in the salon, gallery or home [...] I seek to find a perspective that shouts out a piece of the essence of the literary work. I try to put myself in the author's or character's mind to say something about the time it was written in; the attitude that is explored and expressed; the magic that makes it a work of art.”

Catch-22

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Signed</a> letter from Heller, and corresponding first print edition inscribed copy of the novel <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?locale=en&amp;Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed&amp;query=Catch-22&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Catch-22</a>.<ul><li>Sold as a set of 2: 1 book and 1 letter.</li><li>Joseph Heller (American, 1923-1999).</li><li>New York: Simon and Schuster, 1961.</li><li>443 pages.</li><li>Letter and novel signed and inscribed to Greg Ross, Patrick Christopher and Cecelia in 1990.</li><li>Letter on personal stationary with ink on paper.</li><li>Cloth-bound with white title to spine and illustrated jacket with title and red figure.</li><li>Both book and letter housed in blue custom archival clamshell case, with display window for letter built-in to lid.</li></ul>

A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a>, first printing of the <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Subject=Novels" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">novel</a> <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?Book%20Subject=Novels&amp;query=Catch%2022&amp;tab=objects" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Catch 22</a> by <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?Book%20Subject=Novels&amp;query=Joseph%20Heller&amp;tab=objects" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Joseph Heller</a>.<ul><li>Joseph Heller (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Simon and Schuster,&nbsp;1961.&nbsp;</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>443 pages. </li><li>Spine blue and white with white lettering, dust jacket protected in mylar covering, with price uncut, top edge of text block dyed red, though faded.</li></ul>

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