Nov 10, 2015 - Sale 2397

Sale 2397 - Lot 525

Price Realized: $ 3,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
SALINGER, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye. 8vo, original black cloth, gilt-lettered spine, dulled, few inconspicuous blemishes to covers; dust jacket, few professional paper restorations to verso, soft creasing, colors bright, with $3.00 printed price. Boston: Little, Brown, 1951

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.