Catch-22 by Joseph Heller [FIRST EDITION / 18th PRINTING] 1961

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller 

FIRST EDITION / 18TH PRINTING [1961] SIMON & SCHUSTER

Hardcover sans dust jacket in good condition. 

Nice reading copy with some light edge wear to cover and tanning to boards. 

Minor staining to outer text block, interior pages look and read like new.  *flyleaf page inside cover has some writing on it [see last photo.]   Perfect vintage reading copy. 

Set in Italy during World War II, this is the story of the incomparable, malingering bombardier, Yossarian, a hero who is furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him. But his real problem is not the enemy—it is his own army, which keeps increasing the number of missions the men must fly to complete their service. Yet if Yossarian makes any attempt to excuse himself from the perilous missions he’s assigned, he’ll be in violation of Catch-22, a hilariously sinister bureaucratic rule: a man is considered insane if he willingly continues to fly dangerous combat missions, but if he makes a formal request to be removed from duty, he is proven sane and therefore ineligible to be relieved.