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McCullers, Carson. Reflections in a Golden Eye. The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1941.

Price: US$20.00 + shipping

Description: Good with slightly stained and soiled cloth. Bookplate on front pastedown. Lightly bumped and rubbed cloth

Seller: Weller Book Works, A.B.A.A., Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.

Carson McCullers. Reflections in a Golden Eye. Riverside Press / Houghton Mifflin Company, Cambridge, MA, 1941.

Price: US$40.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 8vo. First edition. Previous owner's name on f.f.e.p. Small spots of soiling to top of text block. Taping to edges of dust jacket. D.j. spine seperating at front joint. Rubbing and chipping to rear joint and edges of d.j. 1 inch chip to rear fold of d.j. VG/G.

Seller: Strand Book Store, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

McCullers, Carson Smith. Reflections in a Golden Eye. Houghton Miffline Company / Riverside Press, Boston, Massachusetts, 1941.

Price: US$45.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 183 pp, previous owner's name & year inked ffep, 5.6" x 8.4" two tone gray cloth boards. Yellow & black design title on fr cover, black spine letters. Cover cloth crisp and Near Fine, No Dust Jacket. in glassine mylar wrapper. Size: Small Octavo

Seller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.

McCullers, Carson. Reflections in a Golden Eye. The Riverside Press; Houghton Mifflin Company, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.; Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 1941.

Price: US$45.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 85 pages; tan cloth boards with dark golden spine and front titles; light brown dust jacket, not price-clipped, now protected in clear plastic; minimal edgewear to boards, with tail of spine slightly softened; some rubbing to extremities of jacket, with scattered blemishes, some sunning to spine, age-toning to flaps and verso; a very good plus copy in a good plus jacket; a solid example of this second novel from the author of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.

Seller: Gold Beach Books & Art Gallery LLC, Gold Beach, OR, U.S.A.

McCullers, Carson. Reflections In A Golden Eye. Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1941.

Price: US$55.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Cloth boards. Lean to spine, head and tail chipped. Boards and extremities rubbed and soiled. Rear hinge beginning to crack.

Seller: Booked Up, Inc., Archer City, TX, U.S.A.

McCullers, Carson. Reflections in a Golden Eye. Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press, Cambridge, [Boston], 1941.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Original two tone cloth. Some soiling and rubbing of cloth, some discoloration of leaves at front and back else a good copy of this novel

Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.

McCullers, Carson. Reflections in a Golden Eye. Houghton Mifflin Company / Riverside Press, 1941.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 8vo bound in decorated cloth. Very Good in Good jacket. First edition, first state with cellophane window ad $2.00 price. Jacket has split in half at spine, with some jigsawing of text. Internal tape repairs, with a closed tear at widow. Such condition is a common story with this jacket design. Cloth is mildly foxed, with some fading to endpapers and pastedowns, and top edge. [AL] 182 pp.

Seller: Mausoleum Books, Glendale, CA, U.S.A.

Carson McCullers. Reflections in a Golden Eye. The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1941.

Price: US$1400.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Hardcover. First issue dust jacket with square cellophane window in front panel and dust jacket is matte-finish. Dust jacket has the usual wrinkling caused by drying of the glue that held the cellophane window on the front panel therefore a 1" closed tear at junction of front flap, very minimal chips to head/heal and extremities. Toning to book. The author's second book. $2.00 price intact.

Seller: Lyons Fine Books, Neenah, WI, U.S.A.

Carson McCullers. Reflections in a Golden Eye. The Riverside Press/Houghton Mifflin, Cambridge, MA, 1941.

Price: US$1995.95 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Signed and inscribed by author "For Chuck dearest love Carson" on half title page.

Seller: Signedbookman, Buffalo Gove, IL, U.S.A.

MCCULLERS, Carson (1917-1967). Reflections in a Golden Eye [Inscribed to H. Tatnall Brown, Jr.]. Houghton Mifflin [Riverside Press]??, Boston, 1941.

Price: US$7365.00 + shipping

Description: 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 Reflections in a Golden Eye to the Swiss journalist, travel writer, and novelist Annemarie Clarac-Schwartzenback, to whom she became infatuated during the summer of 1940, soon after publication of her debut novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. In September, she left her husband of barely three years, James Reeves McCullers, Jr. "I was born a man", she told her friend Newton Arvin. Basis for John Huston's 1967 film, in which, according to film critic Terrence Rafferty, McCullers "work found ideal interpreters in the 'superb reader' John Huston, a fearless Elizabeth Taylor, and Marlon Brando, whose philosophy of acting matched [McCullers's] philosophy of writing. Anthony Slide, another critic, in Lost Gay Novels: A Reference Guide to Fifty Works, called Reflections in a Golden Eye one of only a few well-known gay novels in the English language published in the first half of the twentieth century (among others are Djuna Barnes's Nightwood, Truman Capote's Other Voices, Other Rooms, and Gore Vidal's The City and the Pillar) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).

Seller: Fine Editions Ltd, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.