Lot 339
Lot 339
The Heart is a Lonley Hunter

Carson McCullers, 1940

    Price Realised USD 3,500
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    The Heart is a Lonley Hunter

    Carson McCullers, 1940

    Price Realised USD 3,500
    Price Realised USD 3,500
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    The Heart is a Lonley Hunter
    Carson McCullers, 1940
    McCULLERS, Carson (1917-1967). The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1940.

    First edition. A lovely copy of the author's first book, which took its title from "The Lonely Hunter" by the Scottish poet William Sharp, who used the pseudonym "Fiona MacLeod." “Deep in the heart of Summer, sweet is life to me still, But my heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.”

    Octavo. Original cloth (front hinge starting); printed dust jacket (minor rubbing and edgewear); custom box.
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