SALINGER, J. D. Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour an Introduction. Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1959. FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE. A FINE COPY.
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SALINGER, J. D. (1919-2010). Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour an Introduction. Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1959.
8vo. Half-title. Original gray cloth (very slight fading to spine ends); in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (very slight fading to spine panel).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE without the dedication page. Salinger's novellas were first published in The New Yorker. The present edition was the first appearance of either novella in book form, which was the third best-selling novel in 1963 according to Publisher's Weekly. A FINE COPY.
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