The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter.

MCCULLERS, Carson.

Item Number: 119322

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1940.

First edition, early printing of the author’s first novel and masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Mary, Aristide, Mikey, Aimee, Poppins, With all the love you want from me. Carson.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. A very sharp example, uncommon signed and inscribed.

With the publication of her first novel, The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, became a literary sensation. With its profound sense of moral isolation and its compassionate glimpses into its characters' inner lives, the novel is considered McCullers' finest work, an enduring masterpiece. "To me the most impressive aspect of The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter is the astonishing humanity that enables a white writer, for the first time in Southern fiction, to handle Negro characters with as much ease and justice of those of her own race. This cannot be accounted for stylistically or politically; it seems to stem from an attitude toward life." (Richard Wright) "A remarkable book . . . [McCullers] writes with a sweep and certainty that are overwhelming" (The New York Times). Chosen by Modern Library as one of 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century.