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1940CM005Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1940 First edition later printing lacking date on title page. Signed and inscribed by McCullers on the front endpaper: "For Arthur Katz / with best wishes / Carson McCullers". Publisher's coarse tan cloth lettered in maroon. An about very good copy with some wear and light fraying to cloth at spine ends and corners and toning to spine. Signed copies of the author's first and most well-known novel are very scarce. Published when she was only twenty-three years old The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is McCullers' debut novel and was an instant success. It tells the story of six outcasts in a small town in Georgia. The novel centers on John Singer a deaf-mute who finds himself alone after his best friend also a deaf-mute is sent away to an insane asylum. Singer's presence becomes the focus of four different misfits including a musically talented tomboy a soft-spoken diner owner an idealist African-American doctor and a violent social reformer who struggles with alcoholism. Each of the characters is burdened by a sense of moral isolation and finds a confidant in Singer whose silence proves comforting. At the time of its publication The Heart is a Lonely Hunter was revolutionary for its use of social outcasts as main characters and quickly became a best seller. Today it remains an acclaimed modern novel and one of McCullers' most popular works. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
1950171211002No Place: No Publisher 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New. 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. (No Publisher) hardcover books
1940140938494Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1940. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. 356 pp. First edition first printing with dated title page. Bound in publisher's buff buckram cloth with titles stamped in brown. Very Good with cloth lightly spine toned and soiled pages toned. In a Very Good first state dust jacket with publisher's price intact faded spine soiling and edge wear. Houghton Mifflin Company unknown books
1941171211010No Place: No Publisher 1941. Hardcover. 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. (No Publisher) hardcover books
1940121376Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1940. 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. 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. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
