The Ballad of The Sad Cafe: The Novels and Stories of Carson McCullers
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1951.
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Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. Publisher's orange cloth, titled and decorated in red on spine and front board. Slight bump at the crown else very near fine in a scuffed and torn, about very good dustwrapper, with chipping at the spine ends. Inscribed by Carson McCullers on the front flyleaf: "For Monique and Valentin, from your devoted Carson." We suspect the subject of this inscription to be Monique Kotlenko and her husband, a Russian couple with whom McCullers vacationed in Italy in 1947. A first edition seldom found inscribed, especially so warmly.
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