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J. D. Salinger wrote one of the most famous books ever written, The Catcher in the Rye. Salinger wrote many stories and, in 1941, after several rejections, Salinger finally cracked The New Yorker, with a story, "Slight Rebellion Off Madison," that was an early sketch of what became a scene in "The Catcher in the Rye." The magazine then had second thoughts in part because of World War II in which Salinger was in combat, and held the story for five years before finally publishing it in 1946, buried in the back of an issue. ...
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J. D. Salinger wrote one of the most famous books ever written, The Catcher in the Rye. Salinger wrote many stories and, in 1941, after several rejections, Salinger finally cracked The New Yorker, with a story, "Slight Rebellion Off Madison," that was an early sketch of what became a scene in "The Catcher in the Rye." The magazine then had second thoughts in part because of World War II in which Salinger was in combat, and held the story for five years before finally publishing it in 1946, buried in the back of an issue. Everyone was surprised when the story and the book that followed it became a bit hit. Even today nobody can really explain why Catcher in the Rye is so famous and so popular. Yet, millions have been sold and are still being sold even though only available as used books nowadays. When The Catcher in the Rye was published in 1951, it was registered for copyright as "additional material." This obviously referred to the earlier work "Slight Rebellion Off Madison." The copyright page on "The Catcher in the Rye" states "Copyright 1945, 1946, 1951 by J. D Salinger." The date of 1945 obviously refers to the publication of "I'm Crazy," a short story written by Salinger and published in the December 22, 1945 issue of Collier's magazine that first introduced the character Holden Caulfield to the reading public. Salinger later reworked this short story to incorporate it into The Catcher in the Rye. The two earlier stories are "I'm Crazy," an early version of Holden's departure from prep school that later shows up in The Catcher in the Rye. With minor alteration, much of this story is familiar to readers as the chapter where Holden visits Mr. Spencer. What sets this story apart is the presence of an additional Caulfield sister and the clarity of Holden's resignation and compromise at the end. "Slight Rebellion off Madison" is an early version of another scene in The Catcher in the Rye. The story follows Holden when he is home from Pency and goes to the movies, then skating with Sally Hayes, followed by his drunken calls to her apartment late at night. An early story, it is the first of Salinger's Caulfied works to be accepted for publication.
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Seller's Description:
Very good in fair dust jacket. Grosset and Dunlap, New York, NY, 1951. REPRINT Edition, VG/Fair, Hard Cover, Size=5.5"x8.5", 277pgs. DJ torn on spine & fore-edges & tapemended on spine, ink owner name, address on front endpaper, o.w. clean & tight. Text bright & in Fine Like New condition. [Novels; Fiction; Classic Novels; Classic Fiction] SELLING WORLDWIDE SINCE 1987. WE ALWAYS PACK WITH GREAT CARE!
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1951, 1st Canadian printing. (Hardcover) Very good plus, no dust jacket. 277pp. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering. This is the first Canadian edition printed and bound in Canada by T.H. Best Printing Co. A slight crease along the spine, a previous owner's name on the front endpaper, very faint tape-marks near the bottom edge of the front inner board and the bottom edges of the front and back endpapers, also a faint mark on the front cover. Main character: Caulfield, Holden. (Fiction)
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book A square solid tight clean unread copy. This copy has just a hint of soil to the edges of the text block. The 25.00 priced jacket has some light soil else fine. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND NORMALLY SHIPS NEXT DAY. Re-issue and 55th printing. Date shown above is the actual date the book was first published and I am not sure how to attach a current date to this copy.
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Good. FIRST PAPERBACK EDITION. New York: Signet, 1953. Covers a bit worn along edges, rubbed. Stain to versos of covers, not effecting text. Good condition overall.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. On the copyright page is stated Twentieth-First Printing. The DJ price is $4.50. Blank back of the DJ cover, no photo of the author. Black cloth boards with gilt spine lettering. The DJ has tears on the spine ends which are minimized by the mylar cover. The back flap of the DJ states The Catcher in the Rye is a Book of the Month Selection. No book club indentation on the back cover. Tight and clean.
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Poor in Good jacket. 2nd impression. the jacket is a colour photocopy of a first edition jacket. the boards of the book and very worn. there are small tears and the spine is faded. the book is foxed particularly on the early and later pages. there is a previous owner's stamp mark and inscription. the book is also somewhat cocked. the binding is excellent.
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Good. No dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. Audience: Young adult. Ships w insurance. July 1951 hc 1st ed 2nd printing. Spine tilted, title faded from spine, fraying & soil on cover, front board curves outward a bit, owner's label on front pastedown, which has bled onto fep, another owner's name in pencil on fep, staining on some pgs, foxing, lite tanning, curling, text clean, binding still good.
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Very Good. 0316769533 original 1951 Little Brown hard cover-1st edition 12th printing (Oct 1951)-no dust jacket-slight wear to edges of cover-tanning to page edge-otherwise binding strong contents clean-a nice collectible-early printing-enjoy.
Description of conditions are not the same for the item we received. The book has writing marks on each page.
mickey
Mar 14, 2016
WONDERFUL CLASSIC
This was a very entertaining book and I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Betsaida P
Oct 28, 2014
Pebalon
Excelente servicio. Buen servicio, prontitud y garantía. Lo recomiendo.
Anthony M
May 1, 2014
Not what I expected!
I never read this "classic" in high school and now that I'm in my sixties I'm trying to catch up on some of the reading I should have done had I chosen to be a better student. Boy was I disappointed! Page after page, I kept expecting the nugget of wisdom to appear, but it never did. Instead, I found it to be nothing more than the trivial ramblings of a confused kid, Perhaps a more youthful reader would have better understood the author's style and found it to be the "profound" work so many have said it is over the years. As far as I'm concerned, it stunk!
Joanna W
Apr 4, 2014
My favorite cover of this book! i love it. I have read this book so many times and it never gets old. Hopefully everyone enjoys it as much as I do
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