The Catcher in the Rye.
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1951.
Price:
$1,500.00
Fine, Very Good.
Item #362983
Book club edition, early issue with Salinger's portrait on the rear panel. With critical prospectus by Clifton Fadiman laid in. Fine in modestly spine-toned very good or better dust jacket. Author and critic Malcolm Cowley's copy with his large penciled ownership signature on the front fly. "In a September 3, 1945, letter to his friend, the critic and editor Malcolm Cowley, Hemingway, after discussing his own generation of writers, went out of his way to mention “a kid” named Jerry Salinger, whom he had met and who, in his opinion, 'wrote well.' ” [article: "When Salinger Bonded With Hemingway", *Daily Beast.* Salinger's first book, a post-war highspot and one of the most widely read and beloved coming-of-age novels ever written. *Burgess 99*.
Item #362983
Book club edition, early issue with Salinger's portrait on the rear panel. With critical prospectus by Clifton Fadiman laid in. Fine in modestly spine-toned very good or better dust jacket. Author and critic Malcolm Cowley's copy with his large penciled ownership signature on the front fly. "In a September 3, 1945, letter to his friend, the critic and editor Malcolm Cowley, Hemingway, after discussing his own generation of writers, went out of his way to mention “a kid” named Jerry Salinger, whom he had met and who, in his opinion, 'wrote well.' ” [article: "When Salinger Bonded With Hemingway", *Daily Beast.* Salinger's first book, a post-war highspot and one of the most widely read and beloved coming-of-age novels ever written. *Burgess 99*.