On Fri, 06 Nov 1998 04:00:15 -0500 (EST), mepierce@sfasu.edu wrote: Hello, >Question: Does anyone know what prompted Little, Brown and Company to >dare to change the cover of Catcher? Few books are known by their >covers--Catcher is one of those books. Here in the UK, the Penguin paperback editions of Salinger seem to me to have cover make-overs reasonably regularly. Since I generally feel like re-buying them when I notice, I've got a bit of a suspicion about why they do it too. . . >The book is so much about opposing change. Remember how much Holden >treasured those statues at the museum frozen in time? Some things >should remain the same. How ironic that LBH would so dramatically >tamper with the famous "face" of this novel. Someone mentioned recently (if I'm recalling correctly) that there were no photographs on Salinger covers and I meant to mention that my pb copy of Nine Stories (titled, For Esme - with Love and Squalor for the UK market) has a full colour photo of three kids on a staircase, fists out, squaring up to the camera in mock-defiant pose - some eerie, prescient echo of Salinger's own future attitude to photographers. Inside, a photo - unscreened - of Jerome himself, in younger, on the jacket, you say? I don't see why not, days -- Cheers, Andy