Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction

First edition
Author	J. D. Salinger
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.