What luck
Valerie Thompson (american_night@hotmail.com)
Wed, 24 Jun 1998 09:41:19 -0700 (PDT)
Hello, all...
I just got back from a trip to Estes Park, Colorado. As I do everywhere
I go, I looked in all of the bookstores, new and used, in town. In one
used bookstore, I found a hardcover copy of _The Catcher in the Rye_. It
was in the section marked "autographed," and I nearly had a heart
attack. Thumbing through it, I realized that it was not autographed
after all, but the copy was printed in 1951 and has a picture of
Salinger on the back (the carrousel horse on the front).It's a
book-of-the-month club book. It was in great shape, and since
_Catcher..._ is one of my absolute favorite books, I bought it...The
bookstore owner even gave me a ten percent discount because she said she
was impressed that someone my age (19) even read Salinger. With the
discount, I paid $9 for the book.
According to a friend of mine, there are only two editions of
_Catcher..._ that have Salinger's picture on the back...the first
edition, and the book-of-the-month club edition...He said the first
edition is worth somewhere around $8000 and that the edition I have is
worth only slightly less....Did I really buy an $8000 book for $9?
If anyone has any information on this edition, I would really appreciate
it...
~Valerie~
BTW....Salinger wasn't a bad-looking guy in his younger days *s*
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