J.D. Salinger (1919-2010) Three First Editions.

J.D. Salinger (1919-2010)

Three First Editions.

1) For Esmé—with Love and Squalor. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1953. First English edition, octavo; bound in full blue publisher's cloth lettered in gilt; in the original publisher's dust jacket (price clipped, spine panel sunned, light soiling, stains, toning to verso; scattered foxing; fading and spotting, endcaps just pushed; bookseller's label and inked ownership inscription to front pastedown); 7 3/8 x 4 ½ in.

2) Franny and Zooey. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1961. Stated first edition, octavo; bound in publisher's gray cloth, gilt-lettered spine; in the unclipped dust jacket (soiling to jacket, rubbing to spine panel ends, pale foxing to verso; unobtrusive ink annotations throughout; minor foxing to endpapers; inked ownership inscription to front pastedown); 8 x 5 ¼ in.

3) Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1963. Stated first edition, octavo; with the dedication page; bound in publisher's gray cloth, gilt-lettered spine; in the unclipped dust jacket (spine panel and area of upper edge sunned, chips at spine ends reinforced with tape on verso, small surface losses to rear panel, foxing to verso; two small stains to title; faint staining to upper edges, minor discoloration to endpapers); 8 x 5 ¼ in.

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