LITERATURE 34 “Suspended Between Radiance And Darkness” 34 MCCULLERS, Carson. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Boston, 1940. Octavo, original buff cloth, original dust jacket, custom box. $9800 First edition of McCullers’ first novel that immediately earned the 22-year-old writer “great critical prominence,” an especially beautiful copy in very scarce original dust jacket. It was with this novel of a deaf mute that the young Carson McCullers “immediately achieved great critical prominence” (Hart, 242). “No matter what the age of its author, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter would be a remarkable book. When one reads that McCullers is a girl of 22 it becomes… something beyond that, something more akin to the vocation of pain to which a great poet is born” (New York Times). Bruccoli II: 251. Book very fresh, faintest trace of edge-wear to colorful dust jacket. A splendid copy in fine condition. First Edition Of Sinclair Lewis’ Arrowsmith, Fantastic Association Copy Owned By The Wife Of Lewis’ Publisher, Number 1 Of Only 500 Signed Copies 35 LEWIS, Sinclair. Arrowsmith. New York, 1925. Octavo, original buckram spine. $14,000 Signed limited first edition, number 1 of only 500 large-paper copies signed by him, the copy of Ellen Knowles Eayrs-Harcourt, wife of Lewis’ publisher Alfred Harcourt. Lewis was greatly assisted in the preparation of this satire by science writer Paul de Kruif, who received 25% of the royalties on sales. This is the copy of Ellen Knowles Eayrs, wife of Lewis’ publisher Alfred Harcourt. In 1922, when the events Eayrs recounts in her inscription in this copy occurred, she was Harcourt’s secretary; she and Harcourt did not marry until 1924, the year prior to this novel’s publication. In this copy, Eayrs has penciled a lengthy inscription recounting how she wrote a check for $1000 to fund Lewis and Kruif on their research travels. With the original check, endorsed on the verso by both Lewis and de Kruif, tipped in. Without scarce glassine and slipcase. With Eayrs’ penciled signature on the front flyleaf. Front inner paper hinge expertly reinforced, text clean, light rubbing to board edges, slight toning to spine. An extremely good copy, with an appealing association.
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