Subject: Re: way of a pilgrim
From: Tim O'Connor (tim@roughdraft.org)
Date: Wed Feb 02 2000 - 23:44:30 EST
At 4:11 PM -0800 on 2/2/2000, Ed wrote:
> bookdealers: www.abebooks.com). I entered "The Way of
> A Pilgrim" and came up with 161 hits many of which
> were coupled with The Pilgrim Continues His Way.
> A lot of them did not include paginations but two
> of which did were more than 225 pages. I pasted in
> the info. below:
> - Ed
>
> 28. The Way of A Pilgrim Harper & Brothers 1950 New
> York Hardbound approx. 5"x7" 242 pages very good in a
> worn dust jacket Shelf11-1 Station 3, 8/98 Book #
This got me started digging with an ANACHRONISM ALERT. If Seymour
and Buddy had the book in their room, and if we know Seymour "opted"
not to live in 1948, then the book needed to be at least pre-1948, if
not much earlier.
Most of the older citations I was able to find were dated 1950. I
did find a British edition in the UCal library catalog dated 1930,
but it was only the first book, not the sequel. Has anyone come upon
a suitably old copy of the pair of books that would be old enough
that they could have been in Seymour's and Buddy's room in the Glass
apartment; that would have been around before Seymour's suicide; and
that appear in distinct volumes, rather than as a pair bound into one
volume?
I confess that this is silly, in a sense -- nobody's expecting that
Salinger's going to have just the right edition with just the right
date, but it sounds enough to get my puzzle-solving mind rattling.
--tim
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