Franny and Zooey

by SALINGER J.D.

$150,000 · Offered by Biblio

First edition · Signed

1961. First Edition. Signed. SALINGER, J.D. Franny and Zooey. Boston: Little, Brown, (1961). Octavo, original gray cloth, original dust jacket. Housed in a custom chemise and clamshell box. $150,000.First edition of Salinger's third book, presentation/association copy, inscribed by him to his close friend Lillian Ross, staff writer at the New Yorker, ""To Lillian, with love and great and special pleasure. Jerry Cornish, N.H. 7/29/61."" Inscribed copies of Salinger's books are notoriously rare, and the close association this copy has with Salinger makes it particularly desirable.Salinger planned a series of stories on Franny, Zooey and the Glass family. ""I've been waiting for them most of my life,"" he wrote, ""and I think I have fairly decent, monomaniacal plans to finish them with due care and all-available skill."" ""Franny"" originally appeared in The New Yorker in 1955; ""Zooey"" followed two years later. To John Updike, ""Salinger's conviction that our inner lives greatly matter peculiarly qualifies him to sing of an America where, for most of us, there seems little to do but to feel"" (New York Times). Stated ""First Edition"" on copyright page. Salinger met Lillian Ross through New Yorker editor William Shawn, to whom Salinger dedicated Franny and Zooey. Out of Shawn's faith in Salinger's workÑShawn would publish 13 Salinger stories between 1946 and 1965Ñgrew a great and close friendship, one Shawn shared with Ross in 1957 when she sought to send Salinger a letter in

• Year: 1961
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: hardcover

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