May 16, 2017 - Sale 2448

Sale 2448 - Lot 237

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
SALINGER, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye. 8vo, original black cloth, spine gilt rubbed free, few blemishes to covers; dust jacket, paper restorations to spine panel and corners on verso, flap folds and spine panel darkened; intermittent spotting to front and end matter, few blank margins affected from fore-edge dampstain. Boston: Little, Brown, 1951
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Additional Details

first edition in first issue dust jacket with portrait photograph of Salinger by Lotte Jacobi on rear panel of jacket, and the dollar sign above the shoulder of the letter "R" in "Catcher" on front flap.