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215pp. Hardcover with gilt lettering to spine. With dust jacket. 2nd impression. Condition: Jacket in good condition, with light rubbing, spots of edgewear, small stain to rear, and with sunning to spine. Jacket has been price-clipped. Book: Very good. Minor foxing to boards, very slight shelfwear to top and tail of spine, previous seller’s label to front pastedown, inscription to front endpaper, slight foxing to front endpaper and pastedown. Text clean. Well bound.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1955
Small 8vo (19 x 13cm)
"For Esmé—with Love and Squalor" is a short story by J. D. Salinger. It recounts an American sergeant's meeting with a young girl before being sent into combat in World War II. Originally published in The New Yorker on April 8, 1950, it was anthologized in Salinger's Nine Stories two years later (while the story collection's American title is Nine Stories, it is titled as For Esmé—with Love & Squalor and Other Stories in most other countries).
The short story was immediately popular with readers; less than two weeks after its publication, on April 20, Salinger "had already gotten more letters about 'For Esmé' than he had for any story he had published." According to biographer Kenneth Slawenski, the story is "widely considered one of the finest literary pieces to result from the Second World War." Author Paul Alexander calls it a "minor masterpiece". (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_Esm%C3%A9%E2%80%94with_Love_and_Squalor
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- Binding Condition: Very Good
- Overall Condition: Very Good
- Size: 8vo
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