8vo. Original plain blue wrappers; printed white paper wrap-around band.

THE RARE PIRATED FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, one of 1000 copies published before the Salinger estate shut down this unauthorized publication. “This book contains twenty short stories and two novellas that have never before been collected or published outside of their original magazine appearances due to the wishes of the author, who has declined to publish any of his work since 1965… This collection includes all known works by Salinger not already widely available” (wrap-around band back panel).

[With:] SALINGER. "The Varioni Brothers." -- "Both Parties Concerned." -- "Soft-Boiled Sergeant." -- "Last Day of the Last Furlough." -- "A Boy in France." Each in: The Saturday Evening Post. New York: Curtis Publishing Company, 17 July 1943, 26 February 1944, 15 April 1944, 15 July 1944, 31 March 1945.

Together, 5 volumes, 4to. Numerous color-printed illustrations. (A few leaves with some short tears some just touching text and a few with old cellotape repairs, some minor staining.) Original pictorial wrappers (a touch of wear to extremities, one volume with some old cellotape repairs verso, center gathering on one volume sprung); together in folding case. Provenance: Nicholas Lefthes (address labels to upper covers of  3 volumes). FIRST EDITIONS, all first appearances in The Saturday Evening Post, of these short stories.