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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).

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.

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 Company, 1951. Hardcover. 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… Read More