Oct 26, 2023 - Sale 2650

Sale 2650 - Lot 208

Price Realized: $ 3,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
SALINGER, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye. 8vo, publisher's black cloth, spine titles gilt, one corner bumped, few minor stray marks and blemishes, gilt dulled slightly; unclipped dust jacket, edges rubbed, spine panel tanned with abrading along folds, fold corners and head and foot of spine panel rubbed with small tears, dust soiling; toning to endpapers, some faint spotting to prelims. 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. Boston: Little, Brown, 1951