Signed by Salinger, Spanish rights to Catcher in the Rye

Contract signed ("J.D. Salinger"), granting Spanish-language publishing rights for The Catcher in the Rye to Mundo Actual de Ediciones S.A. (Barcelona).

New York: April 29, 1980.

Price: $10,000.00


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2 pp recto and verso, printed contract completed in type carbon, countersigned by Patricia Powell as witness. Folio. Signed by Salinger, Spanish rights to Catcher in the Rye. Single sheet standard printed contract. Folded at center.

Item #311582

A signed copy of the contract for the Spanish-language rights of The Catcher in the Rye, made between Salinger and a Barcelona publisher for a book club edition. The final three provisions of the contract testify to the control over his image that Salinger notoriously maintained, 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"