High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! 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 the year 1963. It was the first time the novellas had appeared in book-form. Anthologized together, they share the rank of third-bestselling novel in the United States for 1963.