A few months ago, I bought a box of books sight unseen for a
small amount. It contained 15 - 20 Modern Library books
along with a few others. I did not pay a lot of attention
to those books, but put some on the shelves and set others
aside to file away in the extras area.

One of those that was sitting in a pile to go to my extras
until a couple days ago was Salinger's Catcher in the Rye.
It was then that it struck me what excellent condition the
book - and dust jacket - were in. I opened it and found to
my surprise that it was a stated Modern Library First of the
book, from 1958, 7 years after the true first edition. My
second surprise came when I saw the asking prices for this
book. It is now going onto the regular shelves.

--
Francis A. Miniter

Mesure is Medicine þauh þou muche ȝeor[n]e.
Al nis not good to þe gost þat þe bodi lykeþ,
Ne lyflode to þe licam þat leof is to þe soule.

William Langland, The Vision of Piers Plowman
Passus I, lines 33 - 35