SALINGER, Jerome David (1919-2010). The Catcher in the Rye. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1951.
Sale 1335 - Fine Literature from the Collection of Richard C. McKenzie
Jun 6, 2024
9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
Estimate
$3,000 -
$4,000
Sold for $8,890
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
SALINGER, Jerome David (1919-2010). The Catcher in the Rye. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1951.
8vo. Original black cloth, gilt-lettered spine; in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (extremities slightly sunned with a bit of rubbing, few small chips at extreme ends and fore-corners); morocco-backed folding case.
FIRST EDITION, IN THE FIRST ISSUE DUST JACKET printed in red, black and yellow with cropped photograph of Salinger on rear cover, and flap priced at $3.00. The novel's protagonist, Holden Caulfield, has entered the pantheon of American literary heroes. "The Catcher in the Rye was a symptom of a need, after a ghastly war and during a ghastly pseudo-peace, for the young to raise a voice of protest against the failures of the adult world. The young used many voices—anger, contempt, self-pity—but the quietest, that of a decent perplexed American adolescent, proved the most telling" (Anthony Burgess, 99 Novels, pp. 53-54).
Fine Literature from the Collection of Richard C. McKenzie
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