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Property from the collection of John W. Boylan
SALINGER, J.D. (1919-2010). The Catcher in the Rye. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1951.
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SALINGER, J.D. (1919-2010). The Catcher in the Rye. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1951.
8o. Original black cloth; pictorial dust jacket with portrait photograph of Salinger on rear panel (spine panel with small chip at foot and slight wear at head, touch of wear to extremities).
FIRST EDITION. "This novel is a key-work of the nineteen-fifties 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 voices--anger, contempt, self-pity--but the quietest, that of a decent perplexed American adolescent, proved the most telling" (Anthony Burgess, 99 Novels, pp. 53-54. A FINE AND BRIGHT COPY.
8o. Original black cloth; pictorial dust jacket with portrait photograph of Salinger on rear panel (spine panel with small chip at foot and slight wear at head, touch of wear to extremities).
FIRST EDITION. "This novel is a key-work of the nineteen-fifties 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 voices--anger, contempt, self-pity--but the quietest, that of a decent perplexed American adolescent, proved the most telling" (Anthony Burgess, 99 Novels, pp. 53-54. A FINE AND BRIGHT COPY.