Franny and Zooey

by J. D. Salinger

Heinemann, 1962, hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, some wear to edges and corners, previous owners inscription on front flyleaf, slightly coked, tight in binding, dustjacket a little grubby with edge wear and shelf wear, edges torn and chipped, price-clipped (see photographs)

'The author writes: Franny came out in The New Yorker in 1955, and was swiftly followed, in 1957, by Zooey.  Both stories are early, critical entries in a narrative series I'm doing about a family of settlers in twentieth-century New york, the Glasses.  It is a long-term project, patently an ambitious one, and there is a real-enough danger, I suppose, that sooner or later I'll bog down, perhaps disappear entirely, in my own methods, locutions, and mannerisms.  On the whole, though, I'm very hopeful.  I love working on these Glass stories, I've been waiting for them most of my life, and I think I have fairly decent, monomaniacal plans to finish them with due care and all-available skill.'