Product Description
An association copy of the first printing of this novel about art and philosophy.
The book is inscribed to Robert Gottlieb, the editor who discovered Catch-22.
Gottlieb is best-known for editing Joseph Heller's Catch-22 when he was at Simon and Schuster; he spent most of his career at Knopf, perhaps the most prestigious literary publisher in the US, with a five-year stint as the editor of The New Yorker (which shared ownership with Knopf).
Heller was one of many writers who followed Gottlieb from S&S to Knopf but when he got a better offer from Putnam, he switched publishers.
First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1).
A very good copy in a very good dust jacket, with a short tear to the rear panel and some edgewear along the top.
This copy is inscribed, "To All of the Gottliebs, with continued affection (were you still my publisher, I would have sent four copies).
Joe Heller.
8/9/88.
" The novel was published in September.
Given that this copy was inscribed to Robert Gottlieb (and his wife and two children) in August, it is almost certainly a presentation copy, one of the author's own copies sent to Gottlieb in advance of publication.
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