“DID YOU SEE MORE GLASS?”: FIRST EDITION OF SALINGER’S NINE STORIES
SALINGER, J.D. Nine Stories. Boston: Little, Brown, (1953). Octavo, original black cloth, original dust jacket.
First edition of Salinger’s much anticipated second book, his only collection of short stories.
Published two years after Catcher in the Rye, "Nine Stories further solidified Salinger's critical and popular reputation as spokesman for another postwar variety of disengaged seriousness, bordering in one direction on whimsy and in the other on mysticism. In them he perfectly caught the mood of the disaffected middle-class teenagers of the 1950s who couldn't quite let go, but also didn't want to join in" (Hoffman, 144). These stories, written from 1948 on, introduce the Glass family, whom Salinger would revisit in Franny and Zooey (1961) and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour an Introduction (1963). Stated "First Edition" on copyright page; with two grades of paper as issued by publisher. Bixby A3. Bruccoli & Clark I:315. Starosciak A35. Bookplate.
Book with offsetting of bookplate glue, wear to corners and spine affecting title information, and tear to spine end. Bright dust jacket with mild restoration to spine ends and slightest rubbing and toning to extremities. An extremely good copy.