First edition.
Octavo.
Publisher's red cloth titled and decorated in gilt and black to the spine and front board.
A trifle bumped, near fine in price-clipped very good or better dust jacket with die-cut window as issued (and a little nicking around the die-cut window).
"With The Compliments of The Author" slip with the date of publication stamped on it laid in, as well as Inscribed by McCullers in her post-stroke hand on the front fly leaf "For Monique and Valentin, Love Carson.
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