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CLOCK WITHOUT HANDS
By Carson McCullers New York/Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company/The Riverside Press, (1961). Contains publisher's "first printing" statement to the copyright page, and "1961" printed to the title page, and first state dust jacket with cellophane insert to die-cut circle in front panel. McCuller's final novel, set in small-town Georgia on the eve of court-ordered integration. "Her most troubled work. A novel ten years in the making."--Mary Ellen Snodgrass. "Impeccable. The most impressive of her novels."--Atlantic Monthly. A presentable collectible. Small faint tan stain to outer lower page edges, light rubbing to lower shelf-edges, else very good plus in orange linen with gilt embossed titles to a circular black panel to the front cover and with gilt embossed titles to the spine; in a very good plus first issue dust jacket with peek-a-boo cellaphane to a die-cut circle to the front panel, two very short tears to the lower die-cut edge, rub-wear to the rear flap fold, and tiny surface nicks and crimps to the upper and lower spine edges and corner tips; original printed $4.00 price still intact to the front inner flap. Octavo; 241 pages. FREE SHIPPING TO THE USA PLEASE VIEW FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS! |