Carson Mccullers Contributors (5 results)

Condition: VERY GOOD. First printing. A collection of 50 stories from the first 33 years of Story magazine, arranged alphabetically by author from Sherwood Anderson to Cornell Woolrich. Includes contributions from Truman Capote, Kay Boyle, Erskine Caldwell, William Faulkner, Norman Mailer, Mary O'Hara, Graham Greene , Henry Treece, Cornell Woolrich, Evan Hunter, Carson McCullers, Dawn Powell and many others. Includes a foreword by the editors and a chronological memo on the magazine. xvi, 589 pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. (minor wea, original price of 5.95 on dj flap).…

Soft Bound. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very good in original plain wrappers with one tiny short closed tear on the rear panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Near fine in original cloth-covered boards and dust jacket with light edgewear.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Ed. by Herschel Brickell. Moderate wear/soil/foxing; good (only) in a well-worn dj w/ several chips, including a sizeable one at head of spine. Faulkner contributes "Two Soldiers" (22 pp.); Welty "The Wide Net" (30 pp.); Stegner "Two Rivers" (18 pp.).…

Quarto (23cm); decorative wrappers; 120pp. Metallic wrappers show signs of handling and modest wear to extremities; text is fresh and clean throughout; Very Good+. Important copy of this magazine "devoted solely to the short story," marking the debut of a young Carson McCullers, while she was attending New York University. While enrolled in a creative writing class taught by Sylvia Chatfield Bates, one piece in particular caught the eye of her teacher: "Wunderkind," a story about a young girl who had been told at an early age that she was a prodigy. "Some will think this story too long. I don't," Mrs. Bates wrote, but she suggested that her student make a few surgical cuts "to be on the safe side with regard to publication since you are unknown as yet." She also advised Carson to prepare it for submission to Story magazine. And so, the year before the young author married and became Carson McCullers, her debut story was accepted for publication and appeared over the byline Carson Smith. The nineteen-year-old received twenty-five dollars for her debut and celebrated by purchasing chocolate cake, a bottle of wine, and a story collection by Thomas Mann" (The Library of America).…