The Kit Book for Soldiers, Sailors and Marines

by J. D. Salinger, E. X. Pastor, ed

$3,000 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

First edition

First edition, first issue. Numerous color and black-and-white cartoon illustrations. Oblong 8vo. Publisher’s illustrated boards with some rubbing from being housed in mailer, some darkening to pages otherwise near fine. Original printed pictorial mailing carton; some spots of soiling, but generally very good and never used for mailing. Housed in custom burgundy half-morocco slipcase and chemise. Slawenski, J.D. Salinger, A Life, 2010, p. 38. Item

• Binding: Leather

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