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Overlooked Book - Modern Library First of Catcher in the Rye
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 |
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Overlooked Book - Modern Library First of Catcher in the Rye
Modern Library "firsts" could make an interesitng sideline of a
collection... I see my copy of Trollope's THE WAY WE LIVE NOW is a ML first, and it's one for which I saved the jacket. (Don't ask me why, but most of my ML jackets were tossed.) You don't get many Trollope first printings for $11.95! |
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Overlooked Book - Modern Library First of Catcher in the Rye
Now you've got me started, Francis!
My copy of A. Edward Newton's famed THE AMENITIES OF BOOK-COLLECTING is a 1935 ML first. The author wrote a new introduction for this edition. (This is back when they were not-really hardcovers.) The most recent one I've found is the new translation of Jules' Verne's MYSTERIOUS ISLAND. |
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