An eBay listing from a year ago included two copies of The New Yorker containing short stories by J. D. Salinger, each signed by the author. The stories, "Just Before the War with the Eskimos" (June 5, 1948) and "Pretty Mouth and Green My Eyes" (July 14, 1951), were both later collected in Nine Stories (1953).The magazines come from the 2008 Princeton estate sale of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann.
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| Magazine covers by Leonard Dove, Arthur Getz, and Robert Vickery |
Salinger signed both magazines "with best wishes[,]/J. D. Salinger" above the story title.
It's an apparent coincidence that the title page of each story is decorated with a spot drawing by Abe Birnbaum.
Too bad the eBay seller wasn't a better photographer.
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| J. D. Salinger eBay Listing Ended June 19, 2020 |
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| J. D. Salinger eBay Item Description |
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| J. D. Salinger eBay Bid History Only one bid in the final two minutes |
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