first edition
1961 · Boston
by MCCULLERS, Carson
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1961. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); red cloth, titled in gilt and black on spine and front cover; yellow topstain; dustjacket; [x],241,[5]pp. Topstain a bit faded, else Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket, price-clipped, with a few tiny tears, trivial wear at crown, and some pinpoint wear and a closed tear around the die-cut window on the front panel (neatly tape-mended on verso). The author's fourth novel, providing "glimpses into the lives of a few village characters around the 1950's" (COAN, p.63). (Inventory #: 51754)