Item #311581 Contract signed ("J.D. Salinger"), granting Portuguese-language publishing rights for The Catcher in the Rye to Livros do Brasil (Lisbon). J. D. Salinger.

Signed by Salinger, Portuguese rights to Catcher in the Rye

Contract signed ("J.D. Salinger"), granting Portuguese-language publishing rights for The Catcher in the Rye to Livros do Brasil (Lisbon).

New York: February 24, 1961.

Price: $10,000.00


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2 pp recto and verso, printed contract completed in type carbon, countersigned by publisher's representative and two witness, a few ink and pencil annotations. Folio. Signed by Salinger, Portuguese rights to Catcher in the Rye. Single sheet standard printed contract of Franz J. Horch Associates, Author's Representatives. Old folds, wear at upper left margin, a few tiny edge tears.

Item #311581

A signed copy of the contract for the Portuguese-language rights of The Catcher in the Rye, made between Salinger and the Lisbon publisher Livros do Brasil, ten years after the book's original publication. Rights are granted for publication in Portugal only, and do not extend to Brazil.
The Portuguese edition was published under the title Uma Agulha no Palheiro (A Needle in the Haystack), in a translation by João Palma-Ferreira. A Brazilian edition appeared in 1965 under the title O Apanhador no Campo de Centeio (The Catcher in the Rye), which differed substantially from the Lisbon edition.