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The catcher in the rye / J.D. Salinger.

Accession number
PML 198866
Creator
Salinger, J. D. (Jerome David), 1919-2010, author.
Published
Boston : Little, Brown, and Company, 1951
Credit line
Purchased on the Edwin V. Erbe Acquisitions Fund, 2022.
Notes
Collation: [unsigned, 1-9¹⁶]; 144 leaves, pages [8 unnumbered (first leaf blank)] [1-2] 3-277 [278-280 (blank)].
Library copy lacks all of dust jacket except rear flap.
Description
8 unnumbered pages, 277 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm
Provenance
Dorothy Lobrano Guth (1928-2016); Dorothy Jean Guth.
Binding
First issued in black cloth, spine lettered in gold; in illustrated dust jacket depicting a carousel horse, designed by E. Michael Mitchell, printed in red, black and yellow, with black and white full page photoportrait of the author by Lotte Jacobi; price $3.00 (front flap); at foot of back flap, "The catcher in the rye is a Book-of-the-Month Club selection."
Classification
Department