MCCULLERS, Carson. The Ballad of the Sad Cafe: The Shorter Novels and Stories. London: The Cresset Press. 1952. First British edition thus. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the striking dust jacket. A very good copy. The cloth clean and bright with a couple of tiny bumps to front board centre. The extremities a trifle rubbed, the binding tight and square. The textblock spotted with light but consistent scattered foxing throughout. From the library of Bruce Marshall with his ink inscription to front endpaper. The dust jacket unclipped and with a couple of tiny chips to spine head, one or two small closed tears at joints, tiny nick to second ‘C’ in ‘McCullers' at front panel, and again some light scattered foxing visible to white segments of the jacket. Nevertheless, a presentable example.
Collects the short novels, ‘The Ballad of the Sad Cafe’, ‘Reflections in a Golden Eye’, and ‘The Member of the Wedding’, and the short stories ‘Wunderkind’, ‘The Jockey’, ‘Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland’, ‘The Sojourner’, ‘A Domestic Dilemma’, and ‘A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud’.
MCCULLERS, Carson. The Ballad of the Sad Cafe: The Shorter Novels and Stories. London: The Cresset Press. 1952. First British edition thus. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the striking dust jacket. A very good copy. The cloth clean and bright with a couple of tiny bumps to front board centre. The extremities a trifle rubbed, the binding tight and square. The textblock spotted with light but consistent scattered foxing throughout. From the library of Bruce Marshall with his ink inscription to front endpaper. The dust jacket unclipped and with a couple of tiny chips to spine head, one or two small closed tears at joints, tiny nick to second ‘C’ in ‘McCullers' at front panel, and again some light scattered foxing visible to white segments of the jacket. Nevertheless, a presentable example.
Collects the short novels, ‘The Ballad of the Sad Cafe’, ‘Reflections in a Golden Eye’, and ‘The Member of the Wedding’, and the short stories ‘Wunderkind’, ‘The Jockey’, ‘Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland’, ‘The Sojourner’, ‘A Domestic Dilemma’, and ‘A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud’.
