The Catcher In The Rye. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1951. First Edition, Sixth Issue. Black cloth, title lettered in gilt along spine, in publisher’s pictorial dust jacket with photograph of Salinger by Lotte Jacobi to rear panel. Jacket lightly chipped along margins, neat ownership name to front free endpaper, contents in nice bright condition.

Sixth issue of Salinger’s classic tale of Holden Caufield and his boyhood angst. A high spot in modern American literature.

“The Catcher In The Rye is undoubtedly a 20th-century classic. It struck a popular note, particularly with young readers, who strongly identified with Holden Caulfield and his yearning for lost innocence. Salinger’s novel was, and continues to be, a phenomenal success” (Parker, 300).