Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1951. First edition. 8vo. (vi), 277 pp. Publisher's black cloth, stamped in gilt, slightly shaken, spine ends and corners slightly frayed; library ink stamps on top and bottom of text block edges; abrasions and staining on front and rear paste-downs from now removed Brodart-style cover; American Lending Library ink stamps on front free endpaper; scattered light soiling to text; stain in upper corner, pp. 170-175 and 190-191; top corner creased 207/208; in first issue unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, trimmed along bottom edge affecting printed text, toned, stain at center of front and rear flaps, old glue residue along folds of same, tape residue at bottom of spine, wear along edges of each panel fold, loss in lower front panel.

First edition of Salinger's classic.