Mccullers Carson, Signed (33 results)

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Stapled softcover- Playbill program. Vol. 1, No. 1 (January 1964). 60 pages. Printed for original premier at the Martin Beck Theater with Colleen Dewhurst, Michael Dunn and William Prince. SIGNED by Edward Albee on a bookplate attached to top of first page (signature only). Signed by Author.

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.

WARMLY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR TO SOUTHERN LITERATURE SCHOLAR NOEL POLK. viii, 168 pages. Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 15.75cm. Dust jacket rubbed with some bumping at edges. Black boards, spine ends bumped. Author's seven-line ink inscription on the title page: "To Dearest Noel, | In the spirit of | aberrant Southerness, | . . . | Much love, | Sarah/x." Interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. A very good+ copy in a very good dust jacket. With Acknowledgements, "Introduction: Carson McCullers and the Grotesque," "Conclusion: Final Thoughts on the Grotesque," "Critical Survey: McCullers and the Southern Grotesque," Notes, Works Cited, and Index. Features four chapters titled as: "Freakish Adolescents: 'The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter' and 'The Member of the Wedding;'" "Queer Grotesques: 'The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter' and 'Reflections in a Golden Eye;'" "The Masquerade: 'The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter,' 'The Member of the Wedding,' and 'The Ballad of the Sad Cafe;'" and "Two Bodies in One: 'The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter' and 'The Ballad of the Sad Cafe.'" Noel Polk (1943-2012), Professor Emeritus of English at Mississippi State University, edited the school's THE MISSISSIPPI QUARTERLY and earned renown fro his scholarship regarding Southern literature, particularly the work of William Faulkner and Eudora Welty. ISBN 0817312676.

Condition: Sehr gut. Originaleinband, 47 Seiten, Zeichnungen von Rolf Gérard, sehr gut erhalten. Auf Seite 5 eine handschriftliche Widmung von Eva Demski an Tosia und Marcel Reich-Ranicki: "Alles ist nur ein Spiel" Auch dieses Buch - und es sei Tosia und Marcel Herzlich zugeeignet! Frankfurt/M, im September 2005" . Die Autorin war eine enge persönliche Freundin des Ehepaares Reich-Ranicki, vgl. etwa den schönen Artikel der Autorin in der FAZ vom 24.12.2013. Selten mit einer so schönen Widmung. Aus der Bibliothek von Marcel Reich-Ranicki. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

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).

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).

HC/DJ. Fouth Printing. Signed on the endpaper HC Very good+, DJ has tiny bit of wear at top and bottom of spine.

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: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First edition. First edition. 791 pp. The collected novels and stories of Carson McCullers. INSCRIBED by the author on the front endpaper " for ___ and ___ with all love, Carson". A good-only copy with some faint pink underlining to several lines of text and with extensive ink notations in an unknown hand on the rear endpaper. Boards are somewhat worn. Comes with a later, unpriced dustwrapper. Copies of this book are rarely found signed or inscribed.

First edition. Inscribed to "Eddie and Dotty" by the author on an adhered label bearing the logo of the Riverside Press. McCullers' novella follows, in her characteristically Gothic and semi-autobiographical style, a young woman and the tapestry of her family during a hot Georgia summer. Full pale yellow cloth over boards. Soiling to covers and some rubbing to corners; supplied dust wrapper shows slight chipping and typical fading to spine. Overall a good copy in very good dust wrapper.

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.

First edition, first printing, presentation copy of the author's final novel, inscribed by her: "For Rebecca, Love, Carson". It is quite probable that the recipient is the writer and academic Rebecca Pitts (1905-1983), who was part of an intimate group of residents at the Yaddo writers' retreat in upstate New York, along with the author, during the summer of 1943. Pitts and McCullers were photographed together at Yaddo that summer, and their "untamed personal behaviour" at the retreat notably scandalized the novelist Katherine Anne Porter, who described the pair as "Dreadful Creatures" (Wald, p. 124; Titus, p. 167). McCullers and Pitts had already worked together before Yaddo while Pitts was an editor at Decision Magazine in New York City between 1941 and 1942, and the author had called upon Pitts during a moment of emotional distress in 1941, asking for help in the weeks following difficult divorce proceedings from her adulterous husband (Carr, p. 184). "Riding High: Yaddo and the Lecture Circuit - 1943-1944", Ars Femina, available online; Virginia Spencer Carr, The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers, 2003; Mary Titus, The Ambivalent Art of Katherine Anne Porter, 2005; Alan M. Wald, The Literary Left in the Era of the Cold War, 2012. Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine in gilt, and to front cover in gilt on black ground, top edge yellow, dark yellow endpapers. With dust jacket with circular glassine window. A very good copy, extremities rubbed, top edge faded, minor tape discolouration to free endpapers, in unclipped jacket, tape residue to verso, spine ends slightly rubbed, small closed tears to front panel top edge and front flap fold, a sharp, very good copy indeed.

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.

Unbound. Condition: Very Good. Small octavo. One-page Typed Letter Signed ("Carson") on her Nyack-on-Hudson stationery dated 30 August 1961 to Leonard Byrne, thanking him for "helping Jorden and Paul pick out the chandelier in Boston. The chandelier still stands because no one has figured it out without a diagram so Jorden is trying to find out for me." Folded as mailed, a little foxing, very good or better.

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 dustwrapper 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: Good+. First Edition. Inscribed and SIGNED by Carson McCullers on a tipped in page. The volume is bumped at the spine ends and corners and has light soiling on the front board. The unclipped dust jacket is chipped at the spine ends (1/4" on the top front fold, 1/4"x1/2" at the spine base, with smaller areas of loss), corners, edges, and has splits on the front flap fold. There is a supplied book club dust jacket which is only marginally better. The original jacket is sleeved in mylar. Signed.

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.

First Edition. A fine copy in a slightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author 'For John L. Brown and Simone. Love Carson.' The Browns were especially close friends in Paris, with whom she lived for a time. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

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.

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.

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. 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.

First edition, first printing, a preeminent presentation copy inscribed by the author on the title page, "For my beloved Boots, always [xxxxx]", with a drawing of an arrow-pierced heart. "Boots" was McCullers's petname for her cousin, Jordan Massee. Her biographer Virginia Carr states that theirs was "perhaps the longest and most constant and loyal relationship" of McCullers's entire life. We can trace no other signed or inscribed copies of this title to have appeared in commerce. Despite both growing up in Georgia, McCullers and Massee weren't properly acquainted until 1941, when they were both living in New York. McCullers met Massee by chance, through mutual friends. "'She was very quiet then', he recalled. 'She played the piano for me, and I remember that when her housemates came in she introduced me, saying 'This is my precious cousin'" (ibid., p. 164). Over the next few years Massee became McCullers's closest confidant, holding a unique position in her affections and dependencies. She told him everything, from her need for women's love and companionship to the tortuous details of her marriage to Reeves. They were two sides of the same coin, and understood each other perfectly, differing only on what Massee called "Carson's struggle to survive and my tendency to self-sacrifice" (cited ibid. p. 329). As McCullers's physical health deteriorated, so did her dependency on his presence, and even the acquiescent Massee admitted that "Carson was a demanding companion" (cited ibid. p. 325). "No one in her entire experience - not Marguerite or Mary Tucker or Reeves or Annemarie Clarac-Schwarzenbach or Edwin Peacock or David Diamond or Tennesee Williams - approached the relationship that was uniquely theirs until Mary Mercer [Carson's doctor in her final years] came into her life" (ibid, p. 322). The high point of their relationship was the spring of 1949, when Masse invited Carson to stay at his at his home, The House of the Salutation. "It was here that Carson and Masse came together as brother and sister in spirit, cementing the bond that remained unbroken for the remaining 18 years of Carson's life" (ibid.). Sweet as a Pickle was published three years before McCullers's death. Her ailments made it difficult to sustain long periods of writing, and this title was comprised of short verses she wrote for the children of her lawyer, Floria Lasky. It was published on 10 May 1964. In November McCullers wrote her will, which included Massee to the tune of $1,000. She later removed him during a brief rift over mistaken loyalty, and despite their quick reconciliation, inadvertently failed to reinstate him. Virginia Spencer Carr, The Lonely Hunter: a Biography of Carson McCullers, 1976. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in green, pictorial design on front cover in green, green endpapers. With dust jacket. Housed in a custom brown morocco-backed cloth box. Illustrations on title page and throughout in black, green, and orange. Slight rubbing, mark on top edge; spine panel toned, mark on front panel, short closed tear at head of front fold, a few nicks: a fine copy in near-fine jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing, SIGNED by Carson McCullers. An attractive First Issue dustjacket with "Summer's Lease" on back flap that is rich in color with light to the edges. The book is in great shape. The binding is tight, and the boards are solid 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. Signed by Author(s).

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.

Condition: Very good. Two typed letters signed on three leaves of McCullers' printed letterhead, each measuring 5 3/4" x 7 1/2" Old folds, one leaf with a small marginal chip, else about fine. Two letters on Andre Bay, translator and adaptor to the French theatre of her play The Member of the Wedding expressing dissatisfaction with the translation and her "decision to withold approval of the present text". It seems that Bay was under the impression she had approved the translation, and had moved forward with production, including selecting a cast. Both letters to "Dear Andre" maintain a tone that is both polite and friendly, but unyielding were artistic matters are concerned. Bay must have sent a strongly worded letter when he found out the the translation had not been approved, as McCullers' first letter begins: "Your last letters have left me feeling as if I have two heads and a black heart. My mirror and my conscience tell me that this is not true." McCullers goes on to state her case: "First of all, I have no recollection of having approved this translation.Since I neither read or understand French well enough for such a purpose. I realy don't see how it could have been reported to you that I had 'Heard' the French text and approved of it.I arrived at my decision to withhold approval of the present text after having it read by a French girl who is a close friend of mine, who is quite familiar with all my work.Her opinion was that [it] was too literal and that it was lacking in poetry and grace." She closes graciously and apologetically, writing that, "far from slapping your face" she is having the text read again by an even more quaified individual. She expresses regret that Bay had "proceeded thus far with [his] business arrangements before seeking [her] approval of this present text," but confidence that everything will be 'ironed out to our mutual satisfaction." The second letter, sent about a week later, likely in response to another letter from Bay, notes "please know that my every effort, including this note, is directed, these days towards a resolution of this problem which will protect your interests and my literary reputation." She cites Janet Flanner's opinion that the French dialogue is "lacking in the poetry which stems from their special language "along with other criticisms, in some detail, she goes on to write "We are not objecting to the faithfulness of the translation but to the spirit of the translation. I want to say here, Andre, that I never compromised my artistic judgment on Broadwayand I cannot bring myself to make allowances for any other first class production." McCullers writes that perhaps Albert Camus ad Maurice Coindreau might be "persons who might do the small amount of work still required". In the final paragraph, she expresses regret that she was not consulted about the cast, but has decided to look forward instead of backward. A production of The Member of the Wedding, translated by Andre Bay and William Hope, premiered at the Theatre Alliance Francaise in Decemeber 1958. Josyane Savigneau, in Carson McCuller: a Life notes that the play had an extremely brief run [[and] garnered only crtitcal rather than popular acclaim." She also notes, "the conflict put an end to the congenial relations between Andre Bay and Carson."(p279). Interestingly, Savigneau seems to agree with Bay's description of events: Composed by Bay, the script had originally been approved by Carson. Now she was suddenly dissatisfied with it" p279. Two incisive letters from the pen of a major writer whose significant correspondence seldom appears in the marketplace, shedding light on the difficulties of international artistic collaboration, and her refusal to compromise her artistic judgment.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Early (second?) edition. Octavo. Publisher's quarter orange cloth and printed papercovered boards. Near fine lacking the dust jacket. A very good copy in blue boards and red cloth spine, 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 "Edel was the only writer of stature whom she found personally appealing" (p.437). Edel 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 *Clock Without Hands*' and started work on an amusing play about a child and architect father." 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: 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. Octavo. Modest fraying at the top and base of the yellow cloth boards, darkened at the base of the spine, a good or better copy lacking the dust jacket. Affixed to the front fly is a complimentary slip from the Riverside Press, with their logo, Inscribed by McCullers to Langston Hughes: "For Langston with love Carson." McCullers first met Hughes at Yaddo, an artists' community located in Saratoga Springs, New York, during the summer of 1942. Virginia Spencer Carr in her biography of McCullers, *The Lonely Hunter*, notes of McCullers: "One of her favorites, Langston Hughes stayed until November. Hughes and composer Nathaniel Dett were two of the first blacks ever to be in residence at Yaddo. and Carson thoroughly enjoyed her friendship with them over the summer. Yaddo hosted only a small number [of artists] in the summer of 1943. and Carson was especially pleased to see Langston Hughes back. Carson proudly elaborated how she and Langston Hughes had spent many profitable evenings at craps during his two summers there." The glue affixing the slip has caused some moderate wrinkles on the front fly. McCullers later adapted this novel into a play that opened on Broadway with Julie Harris and Ethel Waters and won numerous awards. Waters and Harris then recreated their Broadway roles in the 1952 Fred Zinneman film, with Harris nominated for a Best Actress Oscar. A significant association copy displaying McCullers' unabashed affection for Hughes. Ex-library of Virginia Spencer Carr.