MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors.

HOOKER, Richard. [H. Richard Hornberger and W. C. Heinz].

Item Number: 123800

New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1968.

First edition of the notable inspiration for the 1970 feature film M*A*S*H and the subsequent popular comedy-drama television series of the same name. Octavo, original half cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the title page, “George, Hope all is well in Glendale. Thank you for being so interested in [MASH] Richard Hooker” “also H.R. Hornberger and W. C. Heinz.” Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Bob Shein. Housed in a custom clamshell box that mimics the dust jacket art. An exceptional example.

"A fantastically comic and wildly irresistible story of a small group of army surgeons just behind the front lines in Korea. Not since Catch-22 has the struggle to maintain sanity in the rampant insanity of war been told in such outrageously funny terms" (Ring Lardner Jr.).