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The Ballad of the Sad Café, including also The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Reflections in a Golden Eye, The Member of the Wedding, and new short stories by Carson Mc Cullers.

Première édition collective (aucune mention à la page de copyright) en partie originale.
Elle comprend, en édition originale, la novelle The Ballad of the Sad Café ainsi que 6 nouvelles — tous ces textes avaient précédemment paru dans des revues (Harper's Bazaar, The New York Times...).
L'ouvrage contient également les trois romans déjà publiés par l'auteur (The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Reflections in a Golden Eye, The Member of the Wedding), et propose ainsi une rétrospective complète de son oeuvre en 1961 ; après cette date, Carson McCullers publiera encore le roman Clock Without Hands (1961).

First edition (no additional printing) for Ballad of the Sad Café and six short stories (all had previously been published in magazines such as Harper's Bazar and The New Yorker), reunited here with a collection of the author's previously published novels: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Reflections in a Golden Eye, The Member of the Wedding.

Pictorial dustjacket designed by Ronald Murray, printed without the $5.00 price—perhaps a BCE dustjacket (some folds to edges, lacks to spine, back cover slightly soiled, small marginal tear to first flap).
Publisher's orange cloth boards, spine lettered in red with red decorations, title on the upper board (headcaps and edges slightly soiled).