SALINGER, J. D.

£9,500 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

The Catcher in the Rye. First edition. "In American writing, there are three perfect books, which seem to speak to every reader and condition: Huckleberry Finn, The Great Gatsby, and The Catcher in the Rye. Of the three, only Catcher defines an entire region of human experience: it is - in French and Dutch as much as in English - the handbook of the adolescent heart" (Gopnik).The first issue jacket, as here, has Salinger's hair touching the upper edge of the rear panel and the $3.00 price correctly placed over the "R" of Catcher on the front flap, rather than hanging off to the right.

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