Carson Mccullers, Signed (37 results)

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Second Printing. Flat-signed by editor on Title page with NO inscription. Black textured paper boards with silver foil-stamped spine. AS NEW cond with NO flaws. NO markings throughout - NO rem mark or ex-lib. DJ is AS NEW with NO flaws. Flyer from The Southern Literary Tradition laid in. Signed by Editor.

Later printing (per lack of a Doubleday edition/printing statement upon copyright page) INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. xxii, 600 pages. Hardcover: H 24cm x L 16cm. Dust jacket toned particularly at spine; some rubbing and soiling as well as edge-nicks and light creases; front flap is not price-clipped. Black cloth spine with vibrant gilt stamping and brown boards; slender shelf abrasions at bottom edges. Text block's top edge foxed with a few small stains; dark brown .5cm diameter stain to upper fore-edge which shallowly penetrated some margins; soiling to bottom edge. Author's thirteen-line ink inscription upon front free endpaper: "For . . . With warm personal regards - Virginia Spencer Carr." Interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding retains some crispness. With prefatory essays "A Note from the Author" and "Some Words Before" (i.e. a Foreword) by Tennessee Williams, five sections of b/w plates on unpaged leaves, Notes, Genealogies, "A Chronology of Carson Smith McCullers," Bibliography, Index, and Picture Credits. Please note that this thick book has an approximate shipping weight of 3 pounds and may require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail. ISBN 0385040288.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First. Signed neatly by Albee on the title page. Dust jacket is worn with a few chips and blemishes. Binding is firm. Previous owner's penciled notes. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good -. 1st Edition. First Edition/Later Printing by HMCO/Riverside Press 1941. Signed and inscribed by author on ffep to actor Michael J. Pollard using quill pen & ink. Light brown full-cloth boards with dark ochre titling on cover and spine & ochre topstain. Exceptionally tight, clean binding. Flaws: light bumping and rubbing to spine edges with NO chipping, soiling, toning, foxing, fading, dogears or tears. Prev owner's dedication also on ffep in ballpoint pen. NO other flaws or markings of any kind throughout. June Taylor School of Dance payment receipt dated Feb 1, 1963 laid in. DJ is VG in archival cover with price intact: $3.00. Pictures avail upon request. Inscribed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good +. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition (stated) of the Novella. Flatsigned by playright Edward Albee on the Title Page with NO inscription. Black paper covers with red & orange titling all around. VG+ condition. Flaws: light shelf scuffing, toning and light stain spots on textblock faces. Prev owner's name on ffep. NO chipping, rubbing, creases, leaning or tears. NO markings of any kind throughout. NOT price-clipped but covered with whiteout. NO jacket as issued. Signed by Author(s).

8vo Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Signed. 150p. Stated First edition. Signed by Edward Albee on bottom of title page in black ink. Contents are unmarked with mild foxing on endpapers and text-block. Binding is tight with hinges securely attached. Black cloth boards have gilt tilting on spine with minor shelf wear on backside. Jacket is unclipped and protected in mylar with original price of $4.50 present, foxing present on flaps. A few closed tears and minor edge wear to the extremities. Signature appears legitimate but has not been authenticated - sold as is.

First edition of Albee's quietly powerful adaptation of McCuller's novella. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Edward Albee on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Photograph of McCullers and Albee courtesy of Look. "Edward Albee has converted Carson McCullers' strange, tender prose poem, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, into a play flecked with weird, halting poetry. Their art has joined to reveal the terrible and dim face of a shattered unnatural love" (The New York Times). "A shimmering poem of dark beauty" (Emory Lewis).

Halbleinen. Condition: Gut bis sehr gut. deutschsprachige Erstausgabe. dem unsignierten Buch löiegt eine Karte bei signiert mit Widmung von der amerikanischen Schriftstellerin Carson Mc Cullers (1917-67). Die Widmung ist für amerikanische Juristin und Autogrammsammlerin Ashley T. Cole (1976-1965). Das Buch hat leihte Gebrauchspuren, etwas bestossen. with card signed by author Size: 8°. Buch.

First edition of McCullers' classic coming-of-age story like no other about a young girl's fascination with her brother's wedding, which has been compared to The Catcher in the Rye and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. An exceptional example. Twelve-year-old Frankie is utterly, hopelessly bored with life until she hears about her older brotherâs wedding. Bolstered by lively conversations with her family maid, Berenice, and her six-year-old cousinâ"not to mention her own unbridled imaginationâ"Frankie takes on an overly active role in the wedding, hoping even to go, uninvited, on the honeymoon, so deep is her desire to be a member of something larger, more accepting than herself. It is the basis for the Broadway production directed by Harold Clurman. It opened on January 5, 1950 at the Empire Theatre, where it ran for 501 performances. The cast included Ethel Waters, Julie Harris, and debuted Brandon deWilde, a seven-year-old second-grader at the time. Waters, Harris, and deWilde reprised their stage roles, with Arthur Franz, Nancy Gates, and Dickie Moore joining the cast, for the 1952 film version. The screenplay was adapted by Edna and Edward Anhalt and directed by Fred Zinnemann. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Julie Harris.

First edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For George Seferiades Cordially yours and good luck Carson McCullers from Henry Miller." The recipient, George Seferiadis, the veteran Greek diplomat and scholar who as George Seferis the poet won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1963, was a liberal thinker who inherited a strong democratic tradition from his family. His pen name, a shortened form of his family name, reflects what his friend the British poet Rex Warner called his fondness for âinnocent, easily penetrable disguises.â It also emphasized his role as wanderer, since sefer is rooted in the Arabic word for journey, emerging in Swahili as safari. The announcement of the Nobel Prize for his poetry was made in October, 1963, and Mr. Seferis received the prize personally in Athens that December. A year later, he was made an honorary Doctor of Literature at Oxford, and the following year Princeton awarded him an honorary degree. In 1966, Seferis became a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Seferis and fellow writer Henry Miller were close friends and Miller had this copy inscribed by McCullers as a gift. Near fine in a near fine first issue dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell and chemise box. An exceptional association copy, linking three great writers of the twentieth century. Reflections of a Golden Eye immortalized by the 1967 film starring Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, and John Houston. Set on a Southern army base in the 1930s, it tells the story of Captain Penderton, a bisexual whose life is upset by the arrival of Major Langdon, a charming womanizer who has an affair with Penderton's tempestuous and flirtatious wife, Leonora. Upon the novel's publication in 1941, reviewers were unsure of what to make of its relatively scandalous subject matter. But a critic for Time Magazine wrote, "In almost any hands, such material would yield a rank fruitcake of mere arty melodrama. But Carson McCullers tells her tale with simplicity, insight, and a rare gift of phrase." Written during a time when McCullers's own marriage to Reeves was on the brink of collapse, her second novel deals with her trademark themes of alienation and unfulfilled loves.

1st edition, first printing SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the front free endpaper ("Love, Carson") Near fine/near fine (a lovely copy; price-clipped; dj has only the slightest wear).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Amelia Evans, a tall and lonely woman, falls passionately in love with her cousin Lymon, a malevolent dwarf. Amelia opens a café that serves as a much-needed social outlet for their tiny Southern town. Lymon falls in love with Amelia's estranged husband, Marvin Macy, who has just been released from prison. Lymon and Macy overpower Amelia physically and wreck her café, after which they disappear together, leaving Amelia and the townspeople without hope. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Near fine in very good jacket. Inscribed New Directions reissue of McCullers's second novel, full of that Sense of Dreadfulness defined by Tennessee Williams as characteristic of the Southern Gothic school. First published in 1941 and set on a Georgia army base beset with unspoken sexual obsessions, strange hates, and sudden outbreaks of violence, REFLECTIONS was once criticized as morbid and unwholesome, now recognized as one of the great gay classics of the early 20th century. In his new introduction to this New Classics Series edition from New Directions, Williams champions it as "one of the purest and most powerful of those works which are conceived in that Sense of The Awful which is the desperate black root of nearly all significant modern art," superior in artistic control to her celebrated debut, braver than Proust, nobler in spirit than any since Melville. Uncommon inscribed. 7'' x 4.5''. Original tan cloth. In original unclipped ($1.50) blue and tan dust jacket designed by Al Lustig. 182, [4] pages. Inscribed by McCullers on front free endpaper: "For Jack and Georgia / Carson." Single pencil underline to one page. Some soil to jacket spine, top edge of text block. Light chipping and wear to jacket with a few small closed tears.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Solid 'New Classics' edition with Tennessee Williams introduction. Typical aging to cloth binding. Jacket is sun-faded, lightly soiled and has one small chip, but is not clipped. This copy was presented by the author to Dr. Hervey Cleckley, who, in addition to being a pioneer in the study of Dissociative Personality Disorder (and the co-author of 'Three Faces of Eve'), was a confidante of McCullers', with whom she confided after her husband's suicide. The inscription reads: 'For Hervey Cleckley/ with deepest appreciation/ for your great work/ and with gratitude/ for our friendship/Love, Carson' A sensational association copy. Signed By Author.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Italian Edition. Small octavo. 369pp, plus index leaf. Green printed wrappers. Rubbed along the squared corners of the spine, nicked at the lower corner of the front fly leaf, a near very good copy. Inscribed on the title page by McCullers: "Per Caro Ciro Salute Carson McCullers" [For Dear Ciro, Salute Carson McCullers]. On the front flyleaf there is a non-authorial inscription: "Cuomo Carmine - Ricordo Della Scrittrice Carson McCullers, Marzo Ponza 1952." ["Cuomo Carmine a Souvenir of the writer Carson McCullers. March Ponza 1952"]. In 1952, after having won admission to the National Institute of the Arts and Letters, Carson and her husband Reeves McCullers sailed to Naples, Italy in anticipation of a great welcome from the arts community, which indeed occurred. Carson was also looking forward to reconnecting with the noted composer David Diamond, who was considered one of the preeminent American composers of his generation and a major American symphonist. In New York, Carson, Reeves and Diamond had engaged in a sexual threesome and according to Diamond's diary in 1941: "May 24 Saturday: What has happened to me since meeting Carson, and now Reeves, her husband. Carson whose magnetism and strange sickly beauty stifles me, gnaws at me, and I know it is that I love these two human beings. It is a great love I feel. It will nourish me or destroy me" (Virginia Spencer Carr, *The Lonely Hunter*). Carson wanted to rekindle her relationship with David Diamond, but Diamond was living with Ciro Cuomo a young Italian who served as his secretary and companion, a fact of which the McCullers were unaware. They were surprised by Diamond's new situation yet managed to endure for a few days traveling the area. According to his diary, Diamond was annoyed at Reeves' clear desire to know Ciro, and "Carson drank too much gin"(Carr). Ponza, the name on the front fly leaf, pertains to the island of Ponza off the coast of Naples, a typical day trip, and the inscription in Italian is probably in the hand of a relative of Cuomo or perhaps Ciro himself. McCullers had numerous sexual relationships with women, and her marriage and other relationships with men were fraught with difficulty. This volume reflects the tumult of her personal life, and is a reminder of the limitations imposed on her and other queer writers by mid-century societal norms. An insightful association copy. Ex-library of Virginia Spencer Carr.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Early (second?) edition. Octavo. Publisher's quarter orange cloth and printed papercovered boards. A very good copy without dust jacket. A copy warmly Inscribed by McCullers on the front fly: "For darling Leon Edel with all my love not to mention my profound admiration. Carson McCullers June 14th 1954 Yaddo." In her biography of McCullers, *The Lonely Hunter*, Virginia Spencer Carr wrote that at Yaddo in 1954, "Edel was the only writer of stature whom she found personally appealing" (p.437). Edel, to whom McCullers sometimes read her material, found "her fancies about life much more appealing than her brooding on death" which he addressed with her and later wondered if it had some effect for later she "laid aside the clock-without-hands theme at Yaddo and started working on an amusing play about a child, an architect father." (p.487). Edel was an important literary critic and "the foremost 20th-century authority on the life and works of Henry James. His work on James won him both a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize." An effusive and affectionate inscription. Ex-library of Virginia Spencer Carr.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine+. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine-. First Edition. First Printing of McCullers's second novel, a "hothouse tale of twisted desire and simmering violence." (Terrence Rafferty) Crown 8vo (202 x 129mm): [6],182,[2]pp. Publisher's two-tone grey and beige cloth lettered in yellow and black on front cover and black on spine, fore- and bottom edges rough-trimmed, double-page title printed in yellow, black, and beige. First Issue dust jacket (with die-cut glassine window on front panel) printed in yellow, black, and beige and priced $2.00. Housed in bespoke green cloth-covered slip case and chemise, brown leather spine label stamped in gilt. Inscribed by the author to front fly leaf to H. Tatnall Brown, Jr. (1900-1983), author, bibliophile, and dean of Haverford College: "For H. Tatnall Brown, Jr. / with best wishes from / Carson McCullers." Scattered spotting to spine, faint offsetting to end papers, but a superlative example, tightly bound (apparently unread) and virtually pristine throughout. Dust jacket with trivial wear to extremities and three tiny tears along right edge of die-cut window, but with glassine fully intact (the ill-advised construction technique almost inevitably caused the glassine to shrink, wrinkling and tearing the jacket). Not perfect, but about as good as it gets. Hanna 2290. Powell 339. Originally serialized in the October and November issues of Harper's Bazaar, in 1940. Lula Carson Smith McCullers dedicated Reflections in a Golden Eye to the Swiss journalist, travel writer, and novelist Annemarie Clarac-Schwartzenback, to whom she became infatuated during the summer of 1940, soon after publication of her debut novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. In September, she left her husband of barely three years, James Reeves McCullers, Jr. "I was born a man", she told her friend Newton Arvin. Basis for John Huston's 1967 film, in which, according to film critic Terrence Rafferty, McCullers "work found ideal interpreters in the 'superb reader' John Huston, a fearless Elizabeth Taylor, and Marlon Brando, whose philosophy of acting matched [McCullers's] philosophy of writing. Anthony Slide, another critic, in Lost Gay Novels: A Reference Guide to Fifty Works, called Reflections in a Golden Eye one of only a few well-known gay novels in the English language published in the first half of the twentieth century (among others are Djuna Barnes's Nightwood, Truman Capote's Other Voices, Other Rooms, and Gore Vidal's The City and the Pillar) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing, SIGNED by Carson McCullers on a laid in signature. An attractive dustjacket that is rich in color with no chips or tears. This original First Issue dustjacket with "Summer's Lease" on back panel, later dustjacket have "Reflections in a Golden Eye" has light professional restoration. The book is in great shape. The binding is tight, and the boards are crisp with light wear to the edges. The pages are clean, with no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a lovely copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION SIGNED by the author. We buy SIGNED McCullers First Editions. Signed by Author(s).

First edition, first printing with the date of 1940 on the title page of the author's first novel and masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. With a note laid in from the author which reads, "With all good wishes from Carson McCullers Thanks for the good time at the Inn." Fine in a near fine dust jacket with some light professional restoration. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A very sharp example, rare and desirable signed. With the publication of her first novel, The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, became a literary sensation. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its compassionate glimpses into its characters' inner lives, the novel is considered McCullers' finest work, an enduring masterpiece. "To me the most impressive aspect of The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter is the astonishing humanity that enables a white writer, for the first time in Southern fiction, to handle Negro characters with as much ease and justice of those of her own race. This cannot be accounted for stylistically or politically; it seems to stem from an attitude toward life." (Richard Wright) "A remarkable book . . . [McCullers] writes with a sweep and certainty that are overwhelming" (The New York Times). Chosen by Modern Library as one of 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century.

First edition of McCullers' classic coming-of-age story like no other about a young girl's fascination with her brother's wedding, which has been compared to The Catcher in the Rye and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, âFor Harrell with love Carson.â Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. An exceptional example, first editions are uncommon signed and inscribed. Twelve-year-old Frankie is utterly, hopelessly bored with life until she hears about her older brotherâs wedding. Bolstered by lively conversations with her family maid, Berenice, and her six-year-old cousinâ"not to mention her own unbridled imaginationâ"Frankie takes on an overly active role in the wedding, hoping even to go, uninvited, on the honeymoon, so deep is her desire to be a member of something larger, more accepting than herself. It is the basis for the Broadway production directed by Harold Clurman. It opened on January 5, 1950 at the Empire Theatre, where it ran for 501 performances. The cast included Ethel Waters, Julie Harris, and debuted Brandon deWilde, a seven-year-old second-grader at the time. Waters, Harris, and deWilde reprised their stage roles, with Arthur Franz, Nancy Gates, and Dickie Moore joining the cast, for the 1952 film version. The screenplay was adapted by Edna and Edward Anhalt and directed by Fred Zinnemann. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for Julie Harris.

First edition, first printing with the date of 1940 on the title page of the author's first novel and masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Carson McCullers on the front free endpaper. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. A very sharp example, rare and desirable signed. With the publication of her first novel, The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, became a literary sensation. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its compassionate glimpses into its characters' inner lives, the novel is considered McCullers' finest work, an enduring masterpiece. "To me the most impressive aspect of The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter is the astonishing humanity that enables a white writer, for the first time in Southern fiction, to handle Negro characters with as much ease and justice of those of her own race. This cannot be accounted for stylistically or politically; it seems to stem from an attitude toward life." (Richard Wright) "A remarkable book . . . [McCullers] writes with a sweep and certainty that are overwhelming" (The New York Times). Chosen by Modern Library as one of 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 183 pages. First edition, first printing. First state dust jacket with the cellophane on the front missing. Her 2nd book, a southern melodrama. Signed by McCullers on the first sheet. Fine book in a near fine dust jacket with very slight wear to the top of the spine and a couple of corners. A beautiful copy! Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Early Printing. Octavo. 5.75 x 8.25 in. 195 pp. Inscribed on the front free end paper: "Dear James, I hope you like this, my last book. Carson." Good in original yellow cloth with dampstaining on the foot of the spine, and a good illustrated dust jacket that has some rubbing on the corners and slight chipping along the top and bottom of the spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Final typescript, probably a setting copy, matching the text as it first appeared in the December 20, 1941 issue of The New Yorker. It was then included in the collection The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1951 and since then has been anthologized alongside 49 other great American short stories by Faulkner, Hawthorne, Hemingway, Poe etc. 16pp. inserted into plastic sleeves in a black binder inside a black portfolio with paper label, housed in a custom quarter leather and oatmeal cloth slipcase, lettered in gilt on black band, mistitled Madam [sic] Zilensky. Signed by McCullers in blue ink on the final page. Faint impression of paperclip on first page, else Fine. An original typescript signed by the The Heart is a Lonely Hunter author.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. First Edition. Signed final typescript of the short story "A Domestic Dilemma." Probably a setting copy of a short story differing from the final published version in a few instances. 19pp. inserted into plastic sleeves in a generic black binder, housed in a custom quarter green leather and oatmeal cloth slipcase, lettered in gilt. It first appeared in the collection The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1951. The New York Post included it later that same year in their Magazine Section. Signed by McCullers in blue ink on the final page, unevenly due to strokes that had paralyzed her left side. Near Fine with a few small small marginal stains and faint paperclip impression to first page. An original typescript signed by the The Heart is a Lonely Hunter author.

Hardcover. First Edition. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author for George [Davis] "Who is my Best and Campiest Friend-- /And who, also, is the first/person to really take to this book-/You have helped me and/encouraged me in all ways/that were in your power-/And you know that I love you./Carson." Davis, a magazine editor who later married Lotte Lenya, from late 1940 to 1941 made his house in Brooklyn, a brownstone at 7 Middagh St. later demolished fro the construction of the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, into something of an artists colony serving as a home at various times for McCullers, W. H. Auden, Benjamin Britten, Paul Bowles, Gypsy Rose Lee, and others. Davis discovered the manuscript for REFLECTIONS, which according to Virginia Spencer Carr in THE LONELY HUNTER: A BIOGRAPHY OF CARSON MCCULLERS, lay dormant in a dresser drawer for almost a year (page 99), and urged McCullers to let his magazine, Harper's Bazaar, publish it. The author's inscription clearly shows her gratitude to Davis for his instrumental role in getting this, the twenty-four year old's second book, published. Made into a film in 1967 starring Marlon Brando. A magnificent association copy. According to Wikipedia, Anais Nin named the brownstone "February House," for the number of residents with February birthdays. A number of works were created at the February House: McCullers began writing THE BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFE, meeting the inspiration for the characters at a bar in the neighborhood. Lee published THE G-STRING MURDERS. Auden published THE DOUBLE MAN. Jane Bowles began writing TWO SERIOUS LADIES. Covers soiled and worn, lacking the dustwrapper. Good in a Fine custom morocco-backed clamshell box.

couverture souple. Stock | Paris 1943 | 13 x 19.50 cm | broché | Edition originale de la traduction française, un des 100 exemplaires hors commerce numérotés sur vélin suédois. Dos légèrement insolé, les trois dernières lettres du nom de l'auteur figurant dans l'envoi comportent une tache de décoloration due à une goutte d'eau ou une larme. Rare envoi autographe de Carson Mac Cullers, en anglais, à Marcel Arland. | [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION FOLLOWS] first edition of the French translation, one of the 100 non-trade copies numbered on Swedish vellum. Rare autograph autograph dedication of the author of Carson Mac Cullers, in English, to Marcel Arland. spineely insolated, the last three letters of the author's name appearing in the consignment include a discoloration spot due to a drop of water or a tear. *.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Octavo. Publisher's red cloth titled and decorated in gilt and black to the spine and front board. A trifle bumped, near fine in price-clipped very good or better dust jacket with die-cut window as issued (and a little nicking around the die-cut window). "With The Compliments of The Author" slip with the date of publication stamped on it laid in, as well as Inscribed by McCullers in her post-stroke hand on the front fly leaf "For Monique and Valentin, Love Carson.".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition, First Printing Stated. Cloth; dust jacket with cut-out window showing lettering of front board; 8vo; pp. 241. Inscribed by McCullers on the FFEP to Louis Untermeyer, "Louis, darling / Carson McCullers," and with a typed signed letter (TLS) in its original mailing envelope, mounted to front paste-down. The letter is on McCullers's personal stationery, with her Nyack, New York address, dated 18 September 1961. It reads: "Dear Louis, Thank you for your letter and although I can't promise anything, I would like to see the word list and will let you know if I can do it. Love, ." the author signs off "Carson," in blue ink, and adds, "p.s. I'm almost sure I can do it. / C." Also with relevant newspaper and magazine articles clipped and laid-in, one tipped to rear paste-down. Spine tips rubbed and a bit sunned; corners lightly bumped. Dust jacket a bit chipped and scuffed at spine tips and corners; a few small closed tears along edge of cut-out front panel; price-clipped. Carson McCullers (1917-1967) met Louis Untermeyer (1885-1977) made fast friends when they met at the Bread Load Conference in the early 1940s.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Offering as a pair, housed in a custom clamshell box by Don Kobetsky of Chicago. Book: Inscribed on front free end paper "To.Best Wishes Carson McCullers, Near fine pale yellow boards, tight text block, slight toning to dust jacket, closed tear junction lower spine and front panel, wrinkle bottom front panel, small chip head of spine. First issue dust jacket. Houghton Mifflin 1946 Play: Near fine, some toning to junction of rear paste down. New Directions 1949.