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SALINGER, Jerome David (1919-2010). The Catcher in the Rye. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1951.
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SALINGER, Jerome David (1919-2010). The Catcher in the Rye. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1951.
The first edition, first printing. Catcher's protagonist, Holden Caulfield, has entered the pantheon of American literary heroes as an exemplar of postwar youthful rebellion. In years following WWII, “the young used many voices—anger, contempt, self-pity—but the quietest, that of a decent perplexed American adolescent, proved the most telling" (Burgess, 99 Novels, pp. 53-54).
Octavo (197 x 134mm). Original black cloth; original pictorial dust jacket with portrait photograph of Salinger on rear panel (a few small nicks at corners and folds of jacket).
The first edition, first printing. Catcher's protagonist, Holden Caulfield, has entered the pantheon of American literary heroes as an exemplar of postwar youthful rebellion. In years following WWII, “the young used many voices—anger, contempt, self-pity—but the quietest, that of a decent perplexed American adolescent, proved the most telling" (Burgess, 99 Novels, pp. 53-54).
Octavo (197 x 134mm). Original black cloth; original pictorial dust jacket with portrait photograph of Salinger on rear panel (a few small nicks at corners and folds of jacket).