Jerome David Salinger
Copyright © 1945, 1946, 1951 by J. D. Salinger
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One incident appeared in a different form as a story in Collier’s, December 1945.
One incident appeared in a different form as a story in The New Yorker, December 1946.
This Little, Brown and Company edition was originally published in July 1951.
This Little, Brown and Company edition is published by arrangement with the author.
Published simultaneously in Canada by Little, Brown and Company (Canada) Limited.
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