Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The February 26, 1944 issue of the Saturday Evening Post. Fiction includes most notably Both Parties Concerned, an early short story by J D Salinger. Other fiction includes Old Army, a short story by Paul Horgan and Venus on the Waterfront, a short story by George Sessions Perry. Articles include Should I Apologize? opining on the fact that readers have taken his biography of his fictional character, Ephraim Tutt, as one of a real person. Cover art by Fred Ludekens (Ships Propeller). Light wear to the edges of the covers with some small chips & closed tears. Chip at the top left of the front cover at the spine. There are a few folded corners & pages 49 - 52 are loose but present. A good to very good with fiction by a prominent & collectible author, and vintage WW II related stories, articles and ads.
Seller: Lazy S Books, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$115.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good in original wrappers with two small nicks on the edges and rubbing. Mailing label.
Seller: Clayton Fine Books, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.
J.D. Salinger. Both Parties Concerned (Saturday Evening Post). Curtis Publishing Company, 1944.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Philadelphia: Curtis Publishing Company, February 28, 1944. Folio, original stapled pictorial wrappers with mailing label. In very good condition with light rubbing to spine. Features an early Salinger short story "Both Parties Concerned" which chronicles a young couple's struggles. Literary critics see a linear progression in the development of Salinger's narrative technique that begins with this story and culminates in Catcher in the Rye.
Seller: White Square - Fine Books & Art, Easthampton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$149.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Entire issue, February 26, 1944, in original, colorful, pictorial, stapled wraps, light general wear-only, overall very bright and clean, with mailing label.
Seller: Legacy Books II, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Two volumes. Each including a short story by Salinger that, with the exception of a circa-1974 pirated collection, has never been republished. Large paper, brightly illustrated colored Mailing label top right corner April issue otherwise each is very good to near fine with only minor wear to edges.
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.