Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger [FIRST EDITION] 1961 • 12th Printing • Little Brown & Company

Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger

FIRST EDITION [1961] LITTLE BROWN & COMPANY

12th Printing / 1961. 

Custom refurbished ex-library hardcover with dust jacket in beautiful condition.   

Dust jacket is beautiful!  Clean, vibrant and unworn with a small catalog sticker stuck on spine.  (was unable to remove without damaging the jacket)  -- Looks amazing, now housed in a new Archival Quality jacket protector.  Price clipped off front panel. 

Book is very nice grey cloth boards are clean & unworn with some tanning to edges of cloth. 

*Pages show some very mild creasing toward front of the book.  *Two pages have minor staining to margins (see photos) however, no text is affected. -- 2 formerly dog-eared corners. (See last 2 photos) 

Otherwise, 99% of the book is clean with pages that look and read like new!

The short story, Franny, takes place in an unnamed college town and tells the tale of an undergraduate who is becoming disenchanted with the selfishness and inauthenticity she perceives all around her.

The novella, Zooey, is named for Zooey Glass, the second-youngest member of the Glass family. As his younger sister, Franny, suffers a spiritual and existential breakdown in her parents' Manhattan living room -- leaving Bessie, her mother, deeply concerned -- Zooey comes to her aid, offering what he thinks is brotherly love, understanding, and words of sage advice.