The Catcher in the Rye

Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1951. First Edition. his first book. Fine in a near fine example of the first issue dustjacket (with the price on the front flap partially over the R in “Salinger” and Salinger’s hair just touching the top edge in the portrait on the rear panel), lightly toned with minute wear at the corners. Copies marginally less fine are many times more common. Fame is Salinger’s Lex Luthor, but Catcher stands tall as the modern coming of age novel and one of the inevitable classics in English from the second half of the century. Custom half calf case.