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SALINGER, J. D. (1919-2010). The Catcher in the Rye. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1951.

Estimate: $1,000 - $2,000
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$500

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SALINGER, J. D. (1919-2010). The Catcher in the Rye. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1951. 8vo. 277 pp. Publisher's full black cloth, spine stamped in gilt, publisher's price-clipped dust jacket with Salinger's portrait on rear jacket panel. FIRST EDITION, FOURTH PRINTING ("Reprinted July 1951 (three times)") IN AN EARLY ISSUE DUST JACKET WITH SALINGER'S PORTRAIT BY LOTTE JACOBI. 

Condition

Light rubbing to cloth binding, endleaves toned and somewhat foxed, edges of text-block foxed; jacket with several tape repairs to verso, jacket toned, worn, soiled, with several marginal short tears, chips. A near fine copy in a fair jacket.

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