NMLP P-036795 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

The Catcher in the Rye

J. D. Salinger · Little, Brown and Company (Boston) · 1951

First printing states 'FIRST EDITION' on the copyright page (Little, Brown's house practice), with the copyright line 'Copyright, 1945, 1946, 1951, by J. D. Salinger.' The decisive discriminators are on the first-state dust jacket:

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-036795 for "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-036795, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).