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Author: Salinger, J. D.
Title: The Catcher in the Rye
Place: Boston
Publisher: Little, Brown
Date: 1951
Item # : 126161
Sale Number   424
Lot Number   50
Sale Name    
The Library of Roger Wagner
Sale Date   03/18/2010
Sale Time   1pm PST
Low Estimate   $ 6,000
High Estimate   $ 9,000
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Description:
Black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, pictorial jacket. First Edition.
The classic story of the "cynical adolescent" Holden Caulfield. The jacket is a first issue, with the photo credit of Salinger's portrait by Lotte Jacobi on rear panel.
Condition:
Jacket price clipped, 1½" split to front joint, 1" tear and tiny chips to front panel, short tears to bottom edge, mijnor tape stains to verso, spine slightly darkened; light wear to volume spine head and top front joint, faint rub streak to front cover; ¼" split at top of rear hinge; near fine in a very good and bright jacket.
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