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McCULLERS, Carson (1917-1967). The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1940.
McCULLERS, Carson (1917-1967). The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1940.
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McCULLERS, Carson (1917-1967). The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1940.

8vo. Original beige buckram lettered in brown (some slight spotting to top edge of text block); in unrestored dust jacket (price-clipped, some chipping and rubbing to extremities, a few short tears, some toning).

FIRST EDITION of the author's first book, lauded for its "compassionate treatment of individualism and sensitive style, and also because it was considered a symbolic commentary on fascism (Hart, 242).

[With:] McCULLERS. The Ballad of the Sad Café. Cambridge & Boston: The Riverside Press & Houghton Mifflin Company, 1951. 8vo. Original orange cloth stamped in red; in unrestored dust jacket (some chipping and wear to extremities, a few tears and minor losses). FIRST EDITION.
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McCULLERS, Carson (1917-1967). The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1940.

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