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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
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
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
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
1961BBJC12558Boston / Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin / Riverside Press 1961. First Edition First Printing Stated. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 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. <br/><br/>Carson McCullers 1917-1967 met Louis Untermeyer 1885-1977 made fast friends when they met at the Bread Load Conference in the early 1940s. Houghton Mifflin / Riverside Press hardcover books
195122957Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1951. First edition. Hardcover. Good/very good. 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. <br/><br/> Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
1947117495Paris: Editions Stock 1947. First French edition of the author's first novel and masterpiece. Octavo original wrappers. Presentation copy inscribed by the author "For Rene Laporte from Carson McCullers." In near fine condition. Preface by Denis De Rougement. Translated from the English by Marie-Madeleine Fayet. A very sharp example uncommon signed and inscribed. 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. Editions Stock unknown books
194720581Paris: Editions Stock 1947. First French edition of McCuller's first book The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter. One of 100 copies hors commerce Exemplaire H. C. out of a total edition of 2750 copies printed on "velin blanc suedois". Presentation copy inscribed on the front free endpaper by the author "For Maurice Blanchot from Carson McCullers". Blanchot 1907-2003 was a journalist novelist political writer and philosopher. He was also a prominent book reviewer. A fine partially unopened copy. 8vo original printed wrappers glassine outer wrapper. A fine partially unopened copy. Editions Stock unknown books
1946303042Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company The Riverside Press Cambridge 1946. First edition. 195 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Yellow cloth offsetting on front pastedown and ffep. Fine in almost fine unclipped dustjacket. First edition. 195 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge unknown books
19463320Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1946. First edition. Near Fine/Very Good . Near Fine book in VG jacket. Original yellow publisher's cloth binding. Faint offsetting to front and rear pastedowns. Front hinge a bit tender. Jacket bright and pleasing unclipped with original price of $2.50 to front flap. Spine slightly sunned. Some chips along the top of the front panel and extremities of spine; rubbing to corners. Some shelfwear along the top of the rear panel. In all a pleasing copy.<br/><br/>Living in a communal house in Brooklyn Carson McCullers was exposed to a world almost too literary to be true. "Paul and Jane Bowles Gypsy Rose Lee W.H. Auden and Benjamin Britten all slept at the house regularly. And it was during her time there after a boozy Thanksgiving dinner that the spark for her third novel The Member of the Wedding was lit. On hearing a fire engine's siren McCullers and Rose Lee gave chase through the streets; and McCullers had a sudden epiphany about the central concept of the book which tells of a 12 year old girl Frankie who is so in love with her brother Jarvis and his new wife Janice that she thinks she can join them on their honeymoon" The Guardian. Now compared in turns with The Catcher in the Rye and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn for its depiction of coming-of-age it is a portrait of pre-teen awkwardness and self-delusion coupled with dark and serious undertones. "For all the hysterical inconsequential misery Frankie bemoans in her life there's a real sense of unhappiness underlying it. Her father is absent her mother died giving birth to her World War II is a malevolent hum in the background and there's a reference to a mysterious boy called Barney who has shown her an 'unknown sin'" The Guardian. Some have found much of McCullers' own loneliness and desire to belong tucked into the novel's pages; even more have found some part of themselves. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Houghton Mifflin unknown books
1951431668Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1951. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Octavo. Publisher's orange cloth titled and decorated in red on spine and front board. Fine in price-clipped else fine dustwrapper with a touch of wear. A beautiful copy. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
1940140940925Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1940. First Edition. Fine. First edition. First printing with title page dated "1940." iv 356 pp. Bound in publisher's buff buckram cloth with titles stamped in crimson. A Fine copy with bright unmarked contents sharp lettering. An excellent example of the author's debut novel widely regarded as her best and a classic of 20th century fiction. Houghton Mifflin Company unknown books
194199368Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1941. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fair. First edition. Near fine in a price-clipped fair only first issue dustwrapper with wrinkling caused by drying of the glue that is holding the glassine window on the front panel and several internal repairs. This disastrous construction technique inevitably led to the shrinkage of the acetate which in turn wrinkled and tore the jacket. A less than ideal copy of the author's scarce second book. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
195110257ENew York: New Directions 1951. First Edition. Near fine in a very good lightly dust soiled dust jacket with a couple of small tears. The front panel of the dust jacket is a photograph of a scene from the play featuring actresses Ethel Waters and Julie Harris. New Directions unknown books
195110253ENew York: New Directions 1951. First Edition. Near fine in a very good lightly dust soiled dust jacket with a couple of tiny edge nicks. The front panel of the dust jacket is a photograph of a scene from the play featuring actresses Ethel Waters and Julie Harris. New Directions unknown books
1968002091Warner Brothers 1968. McCullers Carson. THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER. Original 1968 Press Kit for the film adaptation. Includes 23 original photographs in fine condition and nine pieces of promotional material including mimeographed synopses actor profiles especially those belonging to stars Alan Arkin and 21-year old Sondra Locke both of whom received Oscar nominations for their performances and other fascinating and relevant contemporary promotional materials. Housed in the original 9" by 12" Warner Brothers printed folder which is in very good condition only slightly worn and lightly handled. Studio Press Kits with original photos prior to 1970 are exceedingly hard-to-find this is one of the earliest we've handled. Carson McCullers first book and masterpiece -- written when she was 23 -- remains a piece of iconic Southern Literature one of the best novels ever to deal specifically with the social isolation of deafness but giving voice and becoming a champion for all rejected mistreated and oppressed individuals. Printed Wrappers. Near Fine/Very Good. Photograph. Warner Brothers Paperback books
194355557Paris Editions Stock 1943 In-12, broch, couverture imprime.Edition originale de cette premire traduction en franais, publie dans la collection Le Cabinet cosmopolite. Tirage unique limit 2.850 exemplaires numrots sur vlin blanc sudois.
1951211939New York: New Directions 1951. Frontis. 12 118 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Orange cloth. Fine in Vg pictorial clipped dust jacket. Frontis. 12 118 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. New Directions unknown books
1961299651Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1961. hardcover. fine/near fine. 8vo red-orange cloth d.w. Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1961. First Edition. Near fine copy.<br/><br/> The dust wrapper is price-clipped and has a small chip on the margin of the die-cut circle on the front cover. Presumed first issue with acetate backing on the die-cut circle and photo of McCullers leaning forward on the back panel.<br/><br/> Houghton Mifflin unknown books
1964WRCLIT80636Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1964. Pictorial cloth. Illustrations by Rolf Gérard. First edition of this story in verse for young readers. Fine in very good dust jacket with small snags at top edge a price in ink beneath the printed price on the jacket flap and a couple of small mends on the verso. Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
1940140938965Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1940. Reprint. Fine. First edition later printing lacking the date on the title page. Bound in publisher's buff buckram cloth with titles stamped in brown. Fine with previous owner details to front free end paper and small stain to rear endsheets. A fantastic copy. Houghton Mifflin Company unknown books
1961649New York: Riverside Press/Houghton Mifflin 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good DJ. Very minor shelf wear else tight bright and unmarred. DJ with front center cutaway to show front board shows very light shelf/edge wear tiny chip at bottom end with associated light crease minor wear head of spine price clipped. Red cloth boards black label on front gilt. 241pp. <br/><br/>First state of the dust jacket with the cellophane panel mounted to the diecut circle. A very handsome copy of a rather scarce volume. Riverside Press/Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
1961106190Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1961. First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with three short tears. The die-cut circle with glassine window on the front panel of the jacket which usually wrinkles and tears the paper of the jacket has not done so in this case. A nice copy of a relatively common title but seldom found thus. Houghton Mifflin Company unknown books
195187732New York: New Directions 1951. First edition in play form. Hardcover. 1951 First edition in play form first printing. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket price-clipped to inside front flap. One of McCullers's most affecting portrayals of adolescence identity loneliness and belonging. First published in novel form in 1946. A very good copy; jacket clipped with a few closed tears and some resultant creasing but otherwise very good. Good New Directions hardcover
