8vo. Original beige buckram lettered in brown (some slight spotting to top edge of text block); in unrestored dust jacket (price-clipped, some chipping and rubbing to extremities, a few short tears, some toning).

FIRST EDITION of the author's first book, lauded for its "compassionate treatment of individualism and sensitive style, and also because it was considered a symbolic commentary on fascism (Hart, 242).

[With:] McCULLERS. The Ballad of the Sad Café. Cambridge & Boston: The Riverside Press & Houghton Mifflin Company, 1951. 8vo. Original orange cloth stamped in red; in unrestored dust jacket (some chipping and wear to extremities, a few tears and minor losses). FIRST EDITION.