Signed by Salinger, Brazilian rights to Catcher in the Rye
Contract signed ("J.D. Salinger"), granting Portuguese-language publishing rights for The Catcher in the Rye to Editora Nacional (São Paulo).
New York: August 26, 1963.
Price: $7,500.00
About the item
2 pp recto and verso, printed contract completed in type carbon, with stapled quarter sheet addendum bearing ink signatures of Salinger and Claire Salinger (as witness). Folio. Signed by Salinger, Brazilian rights to Catcher in the Rye. Single sheet standard printed contract of Franz J. Horch Associates, Author's Representatives. Old folds, a few small pinholes.
Item #311577
A signed copy of the contract for the Portuguese-language rights of The Catcher in the Rye, made between Salinger and the Brazilian publisher Editora Nacional, twelve years after the book's original publication. Rights are granted for Brazilian publication only, and do not extend to Portugal or the rest of Europe. The final three provisions on the contract, which appear as a stapled addendum, testify to Salinger legendary control over his image, stipulating that "no reviews or quotations from reviews" and "no introductory comments or prefaces" be used on the jacket; that "no photograph may be used on the cover or jacket or in any connection with this book," and that "no biographical material may be used for promotion or advertising"; and finally that "the cover and dust jacket of the book must be submitted for the author's approval." The contract is signed by Claire Salinger, the author's second wife, as witness.
The Brazilian edition appeared in 1965 under the title O Apanhador no Campo de Centeio (The Catcher in the Rye), in a joint translation by Álvaro Alencar, Antônio Rocha e Jório Dauster. This differed substantially from the edition brought out in Portugal under the title Uma Agulha no Palheiro (A Needle in the Haystack).
