Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1952. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. Salinger, J.D. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE. Signed. Boston: Little Brown, 1952. A fine SIGNED copy of the March, 1952 reprint of the first edition. [The first issue was July, 1951]. 8vo., 277pp., black cloth, gilt. Salinger’s remarkable first book, neatly signed in black fountain pen at the top of the title page. An excellent example of Salinger’s elusive signature – The binding is fine; the dust jacket is in very good condition or better with the $3.00 price present & nine reviews on the back panel replacing Salinger’s photo after the first few early printings at his insistence. Custom clamshell case in very fine condition.
The probable High Spot in Modern American Lit collecting, “The Catcher In The Rye is undoubtedly a 20th-century classic. It struck a popular note, particularly with young readers, who strongly identified with Holden Caulfield and his yearning for lost innocence. Salinger’s novel was, and continues to be, a phenomenal success” (Parker, 300). “This novel is a key-work of the nineteen-fifties in that the theme of youthful rebellion is first adumbrated in it, though the hero, Holden Caulfield, is more a gentle voice of protest, unprevailing in the noise, than a militant world-changer.
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 , 53-4).
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger Signed Early Printing
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Wars I Have Seen by Gertrude Stein, Signed 1st Edition
$117501st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. [Beaton, Cecil] Stein, Gertrude. WARS I HAVE SEEN. Signed. London: Batsford, 1945. “A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in a nice war”. First Edition. 8vo., 191pp. Blue cloth stamped darker blue title to spine. A near fine copy in a superb, bright panorama dust wrapper illustrated by Cecil Beaton. [Bookseller’s sticker at the top of the inside flap].
Inscribed in a later hand by Stein in blue fountain pen at the bottom of her Cecil Beaton frontis. portrait, to John James, an American journalist living in France to whom she inscribed a number of books: “To John James who says Ma”am so ? from Kentucky / Always / Gertrude Stein / May / 46″. Stein lived until July of 1946. Probably the toughest Stein Item to find signed & virtually impossible to find as a Presentation Copy.
An extremely good example. In “Wars I Have Seen” (1945), her memoir of the Second World War, Gertrude Stein writes of the remarkable kindness of a young Frenchman named Paul Genin, the owner of a silk factory in Lyons and a country neighbor, who came to her after America entered the war and asked if she needed money. She did – the funds from America on which she and Alice B. Toklas depended no longer arrived – and he offered her a matching monthly stipend. Stein and Toklas lived on Genin’s kindness for six months, after which Stein sold a Cézanne (“quite quietly to some one who came to see me”) and no longer needed money. “And so I thanked Paul Genin and paid him back and he said if you ever need me just tell me, and that was that.” -
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Signed 1st Edition French Softcover of On the Role of the Intellectual in the Revolutionary Movement by Jean-Paul Sartre, Bernard Pingaud, and Dionys Mascolo
$3750An important association copy, tied to Sartre’s lifelong affair with Boris Vian’s first wife, Michèle L’Église, which began in the late 1940s and lasted until his death in 1980.
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Vladimir Nabokov’s Association Copy Konig Dame Bube (KING QUEEN KNAVE) Inscribed to close friends
$37500Extraordinary Presentation Copy of the First German Edition published two years after the first edition in Russian which was also issued in Berlin
