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J.D. Salinger ''Catcher'' 1st/1st

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J.D. Salinger ''Catcher'' 1st/1st
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First edition, first printing of J.D. Salinger's ''The Catcher in the Rye.'' Boston: Little Brown and Company: 1951. Present with first issue dustjacket showing $3.00 present on front flap and Salinger's photo on rear jacket panel. Excellent copy of the seminal coming of age literary masterpiece featuring Holden Caulfield, the poster boy of disenfranchised youth, which beings with the famous run-on sentence, ''...If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth...'' In publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. Book is in very good condition with binding very slightly cocked, light bumping to ends, bookplate to front pastedown and faint foxing to all page edges. Dustjacket is in good condition with tape repairs to verso, minor chips at edges of folds, and a darkened spine. Overall a handsome, very presentable copy of one of the most acclaimed works of 20th century American literature.