New York, Little, Brown. 1951
The author's landmark first novel and truly one of the great American novels. Salinger spent the rest of his career trying to live up to this extraordinary 'coming-of-age' novels. Copies in this condition are of the utmost scarcity.
First edition, first printing; 8vo; publisher's black cloth, design and titles to spine gilt; with the pictorial dust jacket, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, text block just a touch 'sagged' as often but a bright, sharp copy in the spectacular dust jacket, one of two tiny nicks at the head of the spine panel, a very short tear at the bottom of the lower panel with a small associated scuff just effecting the image but a remarkably good copy of a book almost never found in anything approaching this condition; preserved in a red buckram slip-case very similar to the boxes made for the famous Goodwin collection of modern American literature.
First edition, first printing; 8vo; publisher's black cloth, design and titles to spine gilt; with the pictorial dust jacket, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, text block just a touch 'sagged' as often but a bright, sharp copy in the spectacular dust jacket, one of two tiny nicks at the head of the spine panel, a very short tear at the bottom of the lower panel with a small associated scuff just effecting the image but a remarkably good copy of a book almost never found in anything approaching this condition; preserved in a red buckram slip-case very similar to the boxes made for the famous Goodwin collection of modern American literature.
About us
Shapero Rare Books is an internationally renowned dealer in antiquarian & rare books and works on paper.
Our Bookshop and Gallery can be found in the heart of Mayfair at 106 New Bond Street, where most of our stock is available to view and on public display.
We exhibit at major international art fairs, including TEFAF (Maastricht and New York), Frieze Masters, Art Miami and Masterpiece London, as well as antiquarian & rare book fairs including New York, Paris, London, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Hong Kong.
