or Best Offer +C 71.85 shipping estimate. In this article, an 11th grade high school English teacher was fired because she assigned her students to read The Catcher in the Rye. 1951 First Edition Catcher in the Rye JD Salinger HC Little Brown. The Catcher in the Rye is famous as the most censored, banned and challenged book between 19 for being obscene, with an “excess of vulgar language, sexual scenes, and things concerning moral issues.”Īn article I found particularly intriguing was in Time magazine. Salinger, and its history has been colorful. Read and cherished by generations, the story of Holden Caulfield is truly one of America’s literary treasures.” The Catcher in the Rye is the only novel-length work by J.D. A new introduction of the authors celebrated and highly desirable first book by Michael Arlen. Brown and Company was the first to ever publish this novel and commented, “Ever since it was first published in 1951, this novel has been the coming-of-age story against which all others are judged. THE CATCHER IN THE RYE, B.O.M.C., 1986, 1st ed., fine in wraps. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them.The first edition of The Catcher in the Rye was published in 1951 by J.D. It begins,"If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth. fictional works, Runaway teenagers, Fiction, Adolescence, teenage boys, Runaway teenagers in literature, Brothers and sisters, Emotionally disturbed teenage boys, Preparatory schools, Open Library Staff Picks, Fiction in English, Bildungsromans, Alienation in teenagers. Since his debut in 1951 as The Catcher In the Rye, Holden Caulfield has been synonymous with "cynical adolescent." Holden narrates the story of a couple of days in his sixteen-year-old life, just after he's been expelled from prep school, in a slang that sounds edgy even today and keeps this novel on banned book lists. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Until Salinger died in 2010, we had not seen a signed first printing of The Catcher in the Rye since the Phoenix Book Shop sold one from Howard Moss’s library in 1984 - a span of more than a quarter century. Salinger’s signature is scarce and signed copies of Catcher in the Rye are rare signed firsts are exceptionally scarce. Few novels have had more influence on individuals and literary culture than J.D. A spectacular copy of this highly collectible title, printed within twelve months of the original publication date. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The Catcher in the Rye and Philosophy: A Book For Bastards, Morons, And Madmen. Salinger's masterpiece, The Catcher in the Rye, presenting in a remarkably well-preserved original Dust Jacket. 5, 1961.” Lightly rubbed, near fine in a bright near fine dust jacket with some toning to the spine and some minor rubbing. The hero-narrator of The Catcher in the Rye is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield.
Presentation copy, inscribed by the author opposite the title page, “To Ned Thompson with all good wishes J.D. First edition of the author’s first book.