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Houghton MifflinCo, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Signed. 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.

Boston: 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.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1951. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First edition. Octavo. Fine in very good dustwrapper with small chips and tears, mostly at the spine ends. Despite several small chips, a better than usual copy.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1951. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. Publisher's orange cloth, titled and decorated in red on spine and front board. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a few short tears and a little wear at the spine ends. A nicer than usual copy.

Massachusetts: Riverside Press. 1955. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Good+ in a Very Good dust jacket. Front hinge starting and fraying. FEP torn out. Shelfwear on panel corners. Small open tear on spine heel. .

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1963. 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).

Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1951. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Boston: Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1951. 8vo. 791 pp. First edition of this collection of McCullers' novels and short stories. Includes "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter," Reflections in a Golden Eye," "The Member of the Wedding," and seven stories. Near fine in a near fine, price-intact jacket. Small owner's gift inscription on the front free endpaper. A very clean copy.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1951. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full orange cloth, reverse lettering on red panels on spine and cover, red decoration on spine. This comprehensive collection of all of McCullers work up to 1951 includes her novels "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" (1940); "Reflections in a Golden Eye" (1941); and "The Member of the Wedding" (1946); the first book appearance of the novella "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe", and six short stories previously published only in periodicals: "Wunderkind" (1936), "The Jockey" (1941), "Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland" (1941), "The Sojourner" (1950), "A Domestic Dilemma" (1951), and "A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud" (1942).. Spine and covers moderately soiled, else fine; unmarked, tight, square, and interior clean. VERY GOOD. . Thick 8vo 8" to 9" tall. (vi), 791 pp .

Boston - New York: Mariner Book - Houghton Mifflin, 1998. First Mariner Books Edition [First Printing with number line 10987654321]. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo., illustrated glossy paper over boards, pp. 394, 2 page bibliography at page 393, 394. -- Scarce hardcover edition. -- Condition. "Carson McCullers--novelist, dramatist, poet--was at the peak of her powers as a writer of short fiction. Here are nineteen stories that explore her signature themes: wounded adolescence, loneliness in marriage, and the tragicomedy of life in the South. Here too are "The Member of the Wedding" and "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe," novellas that Tennessee Williams judged to be "assuredly among the masterpieces of our language." (A Mariner Reissue)".-bkfinder.

Boston: Riverside Press/Houghton Mifflin Company. 1951. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. Foxing on front panel and text block edges. Rubbing on rear panel. .

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1951. Solid copy of first printing with 1951 on title page. Unmarked but for last name printed on front endpaper. Light shelfwear to spine ends. Clean, bright copy. Tight and square. Price clipped jacket has shallow chipping at spine ends, moderate wear at front flap. This book contains her three novels and short stories. In mylar. . First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus to Near Fine/VG-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

The Riverside Press. First Printing. First US edition. No subsequent printings listed. Clipped DJ in archival cover, edge wear. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1951.

Cambridge / Boston: Riverside Press Cambridge / Houghton Mifflin Company, 1951-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good-. 8x5x0. Riverside Press / Houghton Mifflin Co., 1951; same date on title and copyright pages, no additional printings indicated, Haddon Craftsmen slug with a '1' next to it on copyright page as well; 791pp. Good hardcover in good- dust jacket. Binding is sturdy and fully intact, though loosened from cloth backstrip; text is very good throughout; light foxing to page block edges; minor wear to edges of salmon cloth boards, printed red titling remains bold; small, faint soil smudge on front board near head of spine. Unclipped ($5.00) dust jacket edge-worn with several chips and small closed tears; moderate amount of damp-staining to spine and bottom edge of front panel portions of jacket, only really apparent on verso; light rubbing and age-toning to jacket as well; DJ arrives wrapped in protective mylar. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1987. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 039544179X . Very Good+ in a Near Fine dust jacket. Light spotting on bottom text block edge. ; 9.1 X 6.1 X 1.4 inches; 392 pages .

London: The Cresset Press, 1952. [Modern Literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[6]; 433; [1]. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of 15s to front flap. Contents clean, previous owners name to front flyleaf, jacket gently toned to spine with some edgewear. A very good copy indeed. 'The Ballad of the Sad Cafè' is a story of unrequited love. Miss Amelia, the owner of a store, spends all her time thinking about her cousin Lymon. He is responsible for changing her store into a cafè. As the book progresses McCullers explores the pain and suffering of a love triangle. The other short stories in this collection are some of McCullers most praised work.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1951. First printing with date on title page. Peach colored cloth is clean and pretty fresh with light compression at base of spine. Vintage bookplate on front pastedown, mostly hidden by front flap of jacket. No other markings. Jacket is price clipped and has quite a bit of tape repair along top and bottom edges. There are a few small chips but tape has clearly proteted it. In mylar. . First American Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Good Plus to VG-. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987. Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. A near fine copy in the original perfect bound orange wrappers. A writer of extraordinary power and originality ,that holds a celebrated place in American letters. This volume, the Uncorrected Proof, gathers together the short stories that span her writing career. The nineeteen stories offered here include her most important works; Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland -- and, The Haunted Boy -- as well as earlier works that display her development as a writer. Also presented are two of her finest works of fiction; Member of the Wedding and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, which Tennessee Williams called ''assuredly among the masterpieces of our language in the form of a novella". 392 pages.

London: The Cresset Press, 1952. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First English edition. A touch of soiling on the boards, still about fine in uniformly and lightly spine-toned very good or better dust jacket.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1987. Softcover. Fine. Uncorrected Proof. Fine in printed orange wrappers.

Riverside Press, 1955. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good+/Near Fine. First Edition. Very good or better in near fine jacket. Ownership signature of author John Metcalf on FFEP. Very minor foxing to bottom third of fore edge. Very minor bump to front board at bottom right corner and very minor sunning to grey cloth at edges of back cover. The slightest edgewear to jacket at foot of spine, bottom right corner of front cover and top edge of back cover with very minor sunning to the jacket spine. Overall, a tight and clean copy.