MCCULLERS, Carson.
Reflections in a Golden Eye.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company , 1941.
$975.00
In Stock
Item Number: RRB-152348
First Edition of Carson McCullers's Reflections in a Golden Eye, Finely Bound by the Harcourt Bindery
First edition of Carson McCullers’s haunting second novel, a spare and unsettling tale of desire, obsession, and violence on a peacetime Army post in the American South. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with 22 karat gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Founded over a century ago in 1900, the Harcourt Bindery is the oldest and largest traditional bindery in America exclusively devoted to fine traditional leather bookbinding by hand. Harcourt Bindery uses 22 karat genuine gold leaf, top grades of moroccos, and hand marbled papers from craftsmen representing seven countries. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Reflections in a Golden Eye is the second novel by Carson McCullers, published in 1941 when she was just twenty-four, a year after her acclaimed debut The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. Set on a Southern army base in peacetime, the short, taut novel traces the intertwined obsessions of its characters, among them a repressed Army captain, his sensual wife, and a young enlisted soldier, in a study of desire, alienation, and violence that helped establish McCullers as a leading voice of Southern Gothic fiction. First serialized in Harper’s Bazaar, it was later adapted into the 1967 film directed by John Huston and starring Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor. The novel is dedicated to the Swiss writer and photographer Annemarie Clarac-Schwarzenbach, to whom McCullers was devoted.
Reflections in a Golden Eye.
$975.00
In Stock
Other Books by this Author
