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Price: US$180.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition. No Binding. Custom Clamshell Case. Excellent Custom Fitted Modern Collector's Clamshell Bookcase [Not A Book] HAND-CRAFTED by our conservation team, each box is Gilt-stamped at the spine, & features a blind embossed [sculpted] red prancing horse design, raised on the upper cover inspired by the first edition DJ's graphics & is finished inside & out in Red & Black Nuba®, a fine, supple & durable covering with a neutral ph that has the feel of velvety soft Italian Nubuck® leather. This clamshell is perfectly sized to accommodate your first edition. A Terrific Collector's Custom Case for an important Book. TBCL Web Site photo/link available for more than 100 generally in-stock titles. Custom Craft available. Book definitely NOT included. CUSTOM CASES available for FRANNY, RAISE HIGH & NINE STORIES. The text can be altered to add "signed" or other special requests. *Also available in Black if requested.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye.. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1951.
Price: US$25000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Salinger's debut novel, a cherished portrait of adolescence and one of the most widely banned books ever published. Octavo, original black cloth with gilt-lettered spine. Near fine in a very good first issue dust jacket with the rear panel photograph of Salinger. Jacket design by Michael Mitchell. Author photograph by Lotte Jacob. With an autograph postcard signed by J.D. Salinger to his daughter Peggy laid in. The postcard bears a plastichrome image of horsedrawn carriages on 59th Street in New York City, inscribed by J.D. Salinger on the verso, "Peggy Sweetheart, Cartes and Sudie want to go for a ride on this carriage but I think we'd better wait for Peggy and Mama. Here is a kiss X. Here is a crab kiss âC xxx Love, Daddy." Postmarked New York, New York May 4 11:30 AM 1959. In February 1955, at age 36, Salinger married Claire Douglas, a Radcliffe student who was art critic Robert Langton Douglas's daughter. They had two children, Margaret Salinger (also known as Peggy â" born December 10, 1955) and Matthew "Matt" Salinger (born February 13, 1960). Peggy Salinger wrote in her memoir, Dream Catcher, that she believes her parents would not have married, nor would she have been born, had her father not read the teachings of Lahiri Mahasaya, a guru of Paramahansa Yogananda, which brought the possibility of enlightenment to those following the path of the "householder" (a married person with children). After their marriage, Salinger and Claire were initiated into the path of Kriya yoga, the first of several of Salinger's ever-changing spiritual belief systems which also included Dianetics. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box by the Harcourt Bindery. Rare and desirable with such a touching postcard from Salinger to his only daughter. "The Catcher in the Rye is undoubtedly a 20th-century classic. It struck a popular note, particularly with young readers, who strongly identified with Holden Caulfield and his yearning for lost innocence⦠Salinger's novel was, and continues to be, a phenomenal success" (Parker, 300). "This novel is a key-work of the 1950s in that the theme of youthful rebellion is first adumbrated in it, though the hero, Holden Caulfield, is more a gentle voice of protest, unprevailing in the noise, than a militant world-changer⦠The Catcher in the Rye was a symptom of a need, after a ghastly war and during a ghastly pseudo-peace, for the young to raise a voice of protest against the failures of the adult world. The young used many voicesâ" anger, contempt, self-pityâ" but the quietest, that of a decent perplexed American adolescent, proved the most telling" (Burgess, 99 Novels, 53-4).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Salinger, J.D.. The Catcher in the Rye. Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1951.
Price: US$27500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing with the words "FIRST EDITION" printed on the copyright page. Later editions do not state "First Edition" on the copyright page. This copy is SIGNED by J.D. Salinger on a sales receipt for four books that he bought from the Dartmouth Bookstore in Hanover, NH on August 22, 2001. The bookstore was near his home. This ORIGINAL dustjacket that is rich in color with minor repair. The book is bound in the publisher's cloth and is in excellent condition with minor wear to the spine and edges. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the pages are clean. There is NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A wonderful copy SIGNED by the author with a Letter of Authenticity examined by PSA/DNA on February 27, 2020. We buy Salinger First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
J.D.Salinger. The Catcher in the Rye. Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1951.
Price: US$61440.00 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: No picture on the rear of dj at author's request hence later printing in same year as original first true edition, first printing; po signature black inked out at very top of first blank page otherwise no flaws; c1945,1946,1951 on copyright page; 1951 under publisher's name on title page; pristine white pages; looks unread; from the private collection of the seller; please contact for pictures. Cannot authenticate signature.
Seller: Booksdoc, Russell, ON, Canada
Salinger, J.D. The Catcher In The Rye.. Little Brown and Company, Boston, 1951.
Price: US$98000.00 + shipping
Description: Early printing, printed in the year of publication of the author's classic novel. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "December 24, 1951 To Elizabeth Fueller- with best wishes J.D. Salinger." Salinger's signature is scarce and signed examples of The Catcher in the Rye are rare. Very good in a very good supplied dust jacket. Jacket design by Michael Mitchell. Photograph of Salinger by Lotte Jacobi. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Exceptionally scarce, most rare and desirable inscribed and in the year of publication. Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher In the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. It begins,"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them."
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
SALINGER, J. D.. The Catcher in the Rye.. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1951, 1951.
Price: US$290738.77 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing, extremely rare presentation copy, inscribed by the author to the teenage son of his childhood friend Ada on the front free endpaper: "To Charles Kirtz with every good wish from J. D. Salinger (extra greetings to Ada and Victor from Sonny Salinger) New York 10/18/56". This is an exceptional rarity: signed or inscribed copies by the reclusive author are legendarily rare. The informal sign-off, "Sonny", was the nickname given to Salinger by his parents when he was born. Salinger, who grew up alongside Ada and her brother Victor in the same New York apartment house, presented Ada's sons, Charles (then around the same age as Holden Caulfield) and William, each with an inscribed first edition. He passed on the copies to the boys via Ada's mother, Ann, whose bookplate is on the front pastedown. An inscribed copy of Catcher in the Rye is perhaps the most elusive prize in 20th-century literature. Auction records show only one appearance of an inscribed first edition (at Doyle in 2010). Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket, designed by Michael Mitchell. Housed in a red quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. A fine copy, in a lovely example of the dust jacket, spine panel mildly toned, extremities lightly rubbed and nicked, unclipped, the notoriously fugitive red exceptionally bright and fresh.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom