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STUNNING BINDING. Hardback, approx. 7.75 inches x 5 inches. Bound in full deep blue hand-dyed period goatskin, and finished luxuriously in 23.5 carat gold. The binding features a full gilt spine with raised bands, single gilt line to the boards, gilt lines to turn-ins. All gilt edges. The binder's stamp in gilt appears on the rear turn-in. endpapers, marbled endbands. Text block edges cleaned and decorated with a fine light blue sprinkle Protected slipcase. In fine condition. Interior pages in very good clean condition. 443pp. "This is a war-novel that is anti-death, a brilliant, comic, savage tribute to those who aren't interested in dying".

Catch-22 is a satirical war novel by American author Joseph Heller, first published in 1961. The novel is set during World War II, from 1942 to 1944, and follows Captain John Yossarian, a U.S. Army Air Forces B-25 bombardier, and the other airmen in the camp, who attempt to maintain their sanity while fulfilling their service requirements so that they can return home.