 The book collected the first two short stories ever published by Salinger and a later one published during his World War II period.The agency discovered through research that those three Salinger stories, unbeknownst to the Salinger estate according to some reports, had fallen into the public domain.However, The Devault-Graves Agency applied for and received a copyright for the book as a unique anthology, thus protecting its "Three Early Stories" book from others publishing the three stories collectively.