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[New York]: Little Brown and Company [Hachette Group], 2018. Hardcover. Fine. Boxed set of four volumes, octavo size, in slipcase and with original shrinkwrap. In advance of the centennial of Salinger's birth on January 1, 2019, Little Brown and Company honored the author with a reissue of his work, including "The Catcher in the Rye", "Nine Stories", "Franny and Zooey", and "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction". Of the writers in Salinger's generation, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist John Updike attested that "the short stories of J. D. Salinger really opened my eyes as to how you can weave fiction out of a set of events that seem almost unconnected, or very lightly connected" (n.b. quote from Wiki). ___DESCRIPTION: Volumes bound in brightly coloured red, blue, green and yellow cloth with silver lettering on spines, octavo size (set measures 8 1/4" by 5 3/4" by 3 1/2"), housed in a slipcase covered with natural linen cloth, note that the original shrinkwrap is… Read More