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First edition book: The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger. First edition, first printing. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1951. Hardcover bound in finely woven black cloth stamped in faded gold on the spine, with price-clipped dust jacket (with portrait of Salinger by Lotte Jacobi on rear panel), 5.5 x 8, 277 pages. Book condition: VG/VG-, with toning to endpapers, contemporary presentation inscription to first free end page, faded spine lettering, small stains to gutters of half-title and title pages, and a few small stains and edge tears to the price-clipped jacket.