Original Typescript for Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland

by Carson McCullers

$3,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books · No longer available

No Place : No Publisher , 1941. 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

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