THE CATCHER IN THE RYE
New York, NY: Little, Brown and Company, 1951. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 277 pages. In Good condition. Missing issued dust jacket. Boards wrapped in publisher's black cloth with chipped lettering along the spine, mild shelving wear, a small tear along the front tail edge, mild fraying along the fore corners and spine head and tail edges, and stains throughout. Textblock is splitting to gutter from the second free end-page to page 22, light soiling on some pages, stains on the end-pages and pastedowns, mild wear along the edges, stains along the edges, mild age-toning along the edges, and light foxing along the head edge. DL consignment. Shelved Room C.
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Special Collections - Upstairs
Price: $1,500
NOTES
Jerome David Salinger was born January 1, 1919 in New York City. Salinger began writing while enrolled in various private schools, but would really begin writing in earnest in 1941, submitting several stories to "The New Yorker". Though his short story "Slight Rebellion off Madison", the first of nine stories to feature Salinger's iconic protagonist Holden Caulfield, was accepted it went unpublished until 1946 due to the Pearl Harbor attack. Continuing to write through and after the war, Salinger saw greater success postwar, a particular breakthrough coming with the 1948 short story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish". "Catcher in the Rye" would be published in 1951, the culmination of years of work throughout the 1940's. It has remained an iconic novel despite several censorships and bans in and beyond the U.S., in 1981 being both the most censored and second-most taught book in the U.S.