Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: 1st ed. 1st printing. Poor condition. Tan boards, decorated spine, spine is coming off, loose front board, otherwise spine is tight as it is sewn. Pages clean and bright given age. A collection of novels and stories of Carson McCullers.
Seller: Star Cat Books, Bradford, VT, U.S.A.
Price: US$10.47 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: ex-library hardcover with usual stamps and markings This is a damaged book. May be ex-library, water-damaged, or spine creased/broken. Acceptable, Reading copy only, with writing/markings and heavy wear. Standard-sized.
Seller: Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 791 pages
Seller: Novel Ideas Books & Gifts, Decatur, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$14.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Missing DJ. Some rubbing to the orange cover. Some minor creasing to the edges. Otherwise pages are clean and free from markings or creases. Binding is tight. BP
Seller: Bookplate, Chestertown, MD, U.S.A.
McCullers, Carson. The Ballad of the Sad Cafe. Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1951.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Description: Very good condition (no dust jacket).
Seller: Old Book Surfer, Cambridge, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Octavo. 791 pages. Orange cloth with title on the front cover and spine. No dust jacket. Light shelf and edge wear to the hardcover. Light foxing to the top edge. A good reading copy.
Seller: Americana Books, ABAA, Stone Mt, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$17.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: NO DUST JACKET, OWNER'S NAME TO FRONT PASTE-DOWN, CLEAN TEXT.
Seller: Gian Luigi Fine Books, albany, NY, U.S.A.
McCullers, Carson. The Ballad of the Sad Cafe. Riverside Press / Houghton Mifflin, 1951.
Price: US$21.79 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Damp spots and light edge wear to cover. Age toned endpapers. 792 pages.
Seller: Pistil Books Online, IOBA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Carson McCullers. The Ballad of The Sad Cafe. The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1951.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good Book/Poor Dust Jacket. The Novels and Stories of Carson McCullers. First Edition. Orange full cloth covers with red stamped title on front, red stamped decoration and title on spine. Covers show light soiling and shelfwear, upper corner is creased with edgewear, lower corner lightly bumped, spine ends bumped, small tear at top of front joint. Dust jacket is very fragile: chipping, heavy creases, scratches, soiling, and rubbing, large tears with missing pieces. All edges of book show age tanning, shelfwear, and a few spots of foxing. Binding is loose, endpapers and pages show light age tanning but otherwise clean and unmarked. 791 pages. 5-3/4 X 8-1/4.
Seller: Roebling Books, Covington, KY, U.S.A.
Price: US$27.79 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Faded red quarter spine with blue boards. No dust jacket. There is a hole on the front cover near the hinge/spine. The corners and top and bottom of the spine are bumped and worn. A previous owner's name is written in ink on the front flyleaf. Foxed and tanned pages and edges. There are pencil marks and underlining of a passage on pages 24/25. There is a brown stain on pages 252-253. Contents includes: The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, Wunderkind, The Jockey, Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland, The Sojourner, A Domestic Dilemma, A Tree-A Rock-A Cloud, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Reflections in a Golden Eye, and The Member of the Wedding. 790 pp. Not-ex-library. Shelf: B-2
Seller: Friends of the Library Bookstore, Eau Claire, WI, U.S.A.
McCullers, Carson. The Ballad of the Sad Cafe. Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1951.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very nice hardcover copy bound in orange cloth with red square title. No jacket. Spine also decorated with red pattern. Very minor wear to edges. Clean pages.
Seller: Chester Creek Books, Duluth, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition thus of the collected works. Very good condition with some spine tip and corner wear, with light cover soiling. No dust jacket. Light orange cloth-textured paper with red. Light cup ring on front board, with red underlinging at the bottom of page 9, and top of page 10. 791 pp. Fiction, Collected works, Southern Fiction, USA fiction, Stories.
Seller: Sea Chest Books, Tucumcari, NM, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.84 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: McCullers, Carson. The Ballad of the Sad Café. Novels and Stories of Carson McCullers. Estados Unidos, The Riverside Press Cambridge, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1951. Características: Buen estado general. Pasta dura en buen estado general. Tapas en buen estado. Lomo con una ligera raspadura en la parte superior. Guardas limpias. Cantos limpios. 791 p. (21 x 14 cm) Peso: 850 g.
Seller: Librería "Franz Kafka" México., Cuernavaca, MOREL, Mexico
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Octavo. Dustjacket is missing. Salmon Orange cloth covered boards with lettering within red rectangular feild. Red decorations and similar red rectangle on spine. Spine is darkened. Soiling/darkening to edges and margins. Scattered dark stains across front boards especially. Tanning/darkening to end pages front and rear. Textblock edges dust stained. [791 pages]
Seller: A Cappella Books, Inc., Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$49.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Residuals of a large sticker (damage) on the ffep plus residual of previous owner's pen markings. Additional previous owner's pencil markings on half-titled page. Some discoloration to pages and inside covers and covers. Some wear along the edges, tips and spine.
Seller: Sabra Books, Naperville, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Riverside Press / Houghton Mifflin Co., 1951; same date on title and copyright pages, no additional printings indicated, Haddon Craftsmen slug with a '1' next to it on copyright page as well; 791pp. Good hardcover in good- dust jacket. Binding is sturdy and fully intact, though loosened from cloth backstrip; text is very good throughout; light foxing to page block edges; minor wear to edges of salmon cloth boards, printed red titling remains bold; small, faint soil smudge on front board near head of spine. Unclipped ($5.00) dust jacket edge-worn with several chips and small closed tears; moderate amount of damp-staining to spine and bottom edge of front panel portions of jacket, only really apparent on verso; light rubbing and age-toning to jacket as well; DJ arrives wrapped in protective mylar. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Seller: Book House in Dinkytown, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing. First US edition. No subsequent printings listed. Clipped DJ in archival cover, edge wear.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$219.95 + shipping
Description: Very Good in boards. Foxing on front panel and text block edges. Rubbing on rear panel.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$245.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good First US edition, first printing (per matching dates - 1951 - on title and copyright pages). Octavo. 791pp. Illustrated black dust jacket, with white lettering on the front cover and spine. Orange and red buckram boards, with red motifs on the spine. A first edition copy of this is notable literary collection from American writer Carson McCullers. Included in this edition are not only the first book appearances of the novella "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe", and six short stories previously published in periodicals: "Wunderkind" (1936), "The Jockey" (1941), "Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland" (1941), "The Sojourner" (1950), "A Domestic Dilemma" (1951), and "A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud" (1942), but also all McCullers other previous novels; her acclaimed first novel "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" (1940), "Reflections in a Golden Eye" (1941) and "The Member of the Wedding" (1946). A comprehensive collection of all her work up until this point. The dust jacket has significant but neatly done repairs that keep it very well together.
Seller: LEA BOOK DISTRIBUTORS, Jamaica, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$268.72 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 791 pages. The dust jacket has been wrapped in a clear plastic protective cover, and has some wear, with scuffs and small tears on the edges. The page edges are moderately tanned and foxed, as are the first and last few pages. The title page has a name inscription from a previous owner. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown.
Seller: Goulds Book Arcade, Sydney, Newtown, Sydney, NSW, Australia