The Catcher in the Rye

New York: Little, Brown, (1952). First edition, 14th printing. 8vo. 277 pp. Original full black cloth-covered boards, stamped in bronze, in original unclipped ($3.00) dust-jacket with tape over the price flap. Consistent edge wear, particular to spine ends and corners. Protected in archival mylar. Book is tight, square and firm. Mild toning to page edges, some light foxing and dustiness to top text block. Some smudges from handling to panel edges, curling and wear to spine ends.

Dust Jacket: Good

Hardcover: Very Good

“The Catcher has been translated widely. About one million copies are sold each year, with total sales of more than 65 million books. The novel was included on Time's 2005 list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923, and it was named by Modern Library and its readers as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 2003, it was listed at number 15 on the BBC's survey "The Big Read". The Catcher in the Rye has been consistently listed as one of the best novels of the twentieth century. Shortly after its publication, in an article for The New York Times, Nash K. Burger called it "an unusually brilliant novel," while James Stern wrote an admiring review of the book in a voice imitating Holden's. George H. W. Bush called it a "marvelous book," listing it among the books that inspired him.