Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st printing; pictorial boards; sturdy cardboard covers w/shelf rubbing, slight bow; illustrated end papers; 336 clean, unmarked, moderately toned pages. Includes selections from J.D. Salinger, Rudyard Kipling, Margery Sharp, Ellery Queen, Damon Runyon, Richard Armour, Etc Size: 12 vo
Seller: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Pictorial color boards. 16mo. 336pp. First edition, first issue with 1942 date on copyright page. Illustrated. Contains "The Hang of It" by J.D. Salinger, his first appearance in a book. A good copy with some dull white spotting to the spine and rear cover and some light edgewear. The text is very good with some light tanning.
Seller: Robert Wendler Books, Old Saybrook, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$108.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: True first edition, 1942. Free of former owner writing or bookplates. Moderate rub to boards and some age tone to contents. Thin jagged tear on right side of copyright page, does not stand out but can be seen, else very good. Contains "The Hang of It" by J. D. Salinger, his first commercial publication. Illustrated with color and bw pages. * (THIS BOOK IS IN OUR POSSESSION. WE SHIP MOST BOOKS SIX DAYS A WEEK AND WILL CONFIRM WITH TRACKING NUMBER FOR DOMESTIC ORDERS OR CUSTOMS NUMBER FOR NON DOMESTIC) *; Cartoons; 8vo; 336 pages
Seller: Abound Book Company, Overland Park, KS, U.S.A.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition; first issue of Salinger's first book appearance. Only minute wear; a fine copy in a stamped and addressed first issue publisher's cardboard box. With a fine example of the second issue (1943) of the book in a very good, stamped and addressed example of the second issue publisher's box. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Salinger's first book appearance, this being the first issue (1942), the state without the head and toe bands. Rubbing to the front cover and several abrasions or scrapes to the spine; a good copy in a very good, later issue mailing box, being the red, pink, and navy issue, listing 96 cartoons. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.
Seller: Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA (Lopezbooks), Hadley, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Salinger's first book appearance, this being the first issue (1942), the state without the head and toe bands. Rubbing to covers; near fine in a near fine, lightly faded mailing box, (printed in red, black and orange rather than the later red, white and blue), which has a revised page count stamped over the original page count. The "2" in the copyright date, which in our experience is always battered, is more clearly visible in this copy than in most other copies of the first issue that we have seen. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.
Seller: Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA (Lopezbooks), Hadley, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2750.00 + shipping
Description: 336 pp. 12mo, original illustrated paper-covered boards in publisher's color printed cardboard shipping box. First edition. Some light rubbing to boards as usual; but a tight, fresh copy. The box is addressed to a soldier in Camp Lee, Virginia and has a few bumps and some light rubbing, but is in nice condition. The 1942 first edition is extremely uncommon, and particularly so in the original case.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, first issue. Page edges a little browned as usual, a bit of rubbing to the boards, else about fine in papercovered boards (without dustwrapper as issued) and in the rare original illustrated shipping carton, which shows evidence of having been mailed, but is otherwise in about fine condition. This book of cartoons and short stories was intended to be shipped to fighting men away from home. Salinger's story represents his first appearance in a commercial book. Both issues are very uncommon in the original carton, the first issue much more so than the second.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first issue. Numerous color and black-and-white cartoon illustrations. Oblong 8vo. Salinger's first Book Publication, RARE IN MAILER. Salinger's contribution, the short story "The Hang of It," marked his first appearance in a book. He had written it to appeal to a wide audience with a new appetite for army stories. The story was first published in Collier's magazine in a full page illustrated spread, which he took as an omen of worldly triumph, before it was accepted in The Kit Book, a collection of cartoons and stories by Jack Leonard, Kipling, O. Henry, Ellery Queen, Damon Runyon, and others, created for distribution to military personnel stationed abroad during World War II. Slawenski, J.D. Salinger, A Life, 2010, p. 38 Publisher's illustrated boards with some rubbing from being housed in mailer, some darkening to pages otherwise near fine. Original printed pictorial mailing carton; some spots of soiling, but generally very good and never used for mailing. Housed in custom burgundy half-morocco slipcase and chemise Numerous color and black-and-white cartoon illustrations. Oblong 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.