We Bombed In New Haven.

HELLER, Joseph .

$750.00

Item Number: 115898

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967.

First edition of Heller’s classic first play. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “To Bob Thomas To help complete your collection of one of my favorite authors. Joe Heller 3/7/80 N.Y.C.” The recipient, Bob Thomas was an American Hollywood film industry biographer and reporter who worked for the Associated Press from 1944. As of 2014, he was twice listed in the Guinness World Records, for the longest career as a reporter, and for the most consecutive Academy Awards shows covered by an entertainment reporter. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Paul Bacon.

Heller's first book since Catch-22, We Bombed in New Haven is an extension - after seven years which have seen that novel's most extravagant imaginings stolen by history - of Heller's wild and moving vision of man against war.