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J.D. Salinger. Stated First Edition (3rd state). Dust Jacket: Very Good. An unclipped jacket with original price ($4.00) still intact. Front/back of jacket stained with two small chips. Has property of U.S. Navy on top of pages. 

Hardcover: Very Good. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1959 (actually published in 1963). This copy has the dedication page after copyright page making it a third state. Light blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. Flyleaf page is stained, otherwise no markings or writing in the book, 248 pp. Firm binding and solid book. Has correct spelling of "Seymour" on page 173 not Seymore as with first state.

*NB - we also have a 1963 edition of the same book published by Heinemann (London) at half this price, email us if you're intersted in either edition.

The book was published in 1963, but the copyright says 1955 and 1959. There are apparently three states of the first edition.

This was Salinger's fourth book. Both of these Salinger stories first appeared in The New Yorker. Both stories concerned with character Seymour Glass, the main character in this unfinished series about the Glass family.

After rocketing to literary fame in 1951 with “The Catcher in the Rye,” J.D. Salinger stopped publishing in 1965 and all but disappeared. His retreat made him even more of an object of fascination than he had been before. He died in 2010 at age 91, following nearly 50 years of public silence.