Reflections in a Golden Eye [Inscribed to H. Tatnall Brown, Jr.]

by MCCULLERS, Carson (1917-1967)

$5,524 · Offered by Biblio

First edition · Signed · In dust jacket

Boston: Houghton Mifflin [Riverside Press]??, 1941. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine+/Fine-. First Printing of McCullers's second novel, a "hothouse tale of twisted desire and simmering violence." (Terrence Rafferty) Crown 8vo (202 x 129mm): [6],182,[2]pp. Publisher's two-tone grey and beige cloth lettered in yellow and black on front cover and black on spine, fore- and bottom edges rough-trimmed, double-page title printed in yellow, black, and beige. First Issue dust jacket (with die-cut glassine window on front panel) printed in yellow, black, and beige and priced $2.00. Housed in bespoke green cloth-covered slip case and chemise, brown leather spine label stamped in gilt. Inscribed by the author to front fly leaf to H. Tatnall Brown, Jr. (1900-1983), author, bibliophile, and dean of Haverford College: "For H. Tatnall Brown, Jr. / with best wishes from / Carson McCullers." Scattered spotting to spine, faint offsetting to end papers, but a superlative example, tightly bound (apparently unread) and virtually pristine throughout. Dust jacket with trivial wear to extremities and three tiny tears along right edge of die-cut window, but with glassine fully intact (the ill-advised construction technique almost inevitably caused the glassine to shrink, wrinkling and tearing the jacket). Not perfect, but about as good as it gets. Hanna 2290. Powell 339. Originally serialized in the October and November issues of Harper's Bazaar, in 1940. Lula Carson Smith McCullers dedicated Refl

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin [Riverside Press]??
• Year: 1941
• Edition: First Edition
• Printing: first
• Binding: hardcover

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