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The catcher in the rye

J. D. Salinger (Author), E. Michael Mitchell, Lotte Jacobi (Photographer), Little, Brown and Company (Publisher)
In an effort to escape the hypocrisies of life at his boarding school, sixteen-year-old Holden Caulfield seeks refuge in New York City
Print Book, English, 1951
First edition View all formats and editions
Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1951
Young adult fiction
8 unnumbered pages, 277 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm
9780316769532, 9780316769488, 9780316769174, 9780553149661, 9781439576649, 0316769533, 0316769177, 0316769487, 0553149660, 1439576645
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A perfect day for bananafish
Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut
Just before the war with the Eskimos
The laughing man
Down at the dinghy
For Esme, with love and squalor
Pretty mouth and green my eyes
De Daumier-Smith's blue period
Teddy
Collation: [unsigned, 1-9¹⁶]; 144 leaves, pages [8 unnumbered (first leaf blank)] [1-2] 3-277 [278-280 (blank)]