Incomparable Catcher... ?
US: DESCRIBED as “probably as good or better than any copy at auction in the last five years”, a 1951 first of J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, the cloth binding extremely clean and the dust jacket in “nearly superb” condition, made $7500 (£5170) in the December 18 sale held by the Baltimore Book Company.
Nothing made more, but two much earlier works did sell for $6000 (£4140) apiece. Among the early Bib…