Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction
First edition | |
| Author | J. D. Salinger |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | Little, Brown |
Publication date | 1963 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 248 pp |
| Preceded by | Franny and Zooey |
| Followed by | "Hapworth 16, 1924" |
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction is a single volume featuring two novellas by J. D. Salinger, which were previously published in The New Yorker: Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters (1955) and Seymour: An Introduction (1959). Little, Brown republished them in this anthology in 1963. It was the first time the novellas had appeared in book form. The book was the third best-selling novel in the United States in 1963, according to Publishers Weekly.