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Lot 262
Sale 1023 - The Library of Jack Charles Davis, Sold to Support Charitable Institutions
May 3, 2022
9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$688
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SALINGER, J. D. (1919-2010). Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour an Introduction. Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1959.
8vo. Half-title. Original gray cloth (very slight fading to spine ends); in unrestored unclipped dust jacket (very slight fading to spine panel).
FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE without the dedication page. Salinger's novellas were first published in The New Yorker. The present edition was the first appearance of either novella in book form, which was the third best-selling novel in 1963 according to Publisher's Weekly. A FINE COPY.