Partial ALS, one page, 5.25 x 4.75, December 25, 1963. Portion of a handwritten letter sent by Salinger from his home in Cornish, New Hampshire, which reads: “…like it). I can’t remember when I last had a picture taken, but here is an edition of a book you may not have. I send it with all good wishes. Please get well and write me a long letter.” In fine condition.
This letter dates to the same year that Salinger published Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction, a single volume that featured two novellas previously published in The New Yorker: Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters (1955) and Seymour: An Introduction (1959). Little, Brown republished them in this anthology in 1963, marking the first time the novellas had appeared in book form. According to Publishers Weekly, the book was the third best-selling novel in the United States in 1963.
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