LE COEUR EST UN CHASSEUR SOLITAIRE [THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER]

Limited Edition In Glassine

LE COEUR EST UN CHASSEUR SOLITAIRE [THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER]

By Carson McCullers, translated by Marie-Madeleine Fayet, preface by Denis de Rougemont

(1947)

First French edition of McCullers's acclaimed first novel, one of 100 copies issued hors commerce.

Very good plus.

Price: $150.00

LE COEUR EST UN CHASSEUR SOLITAIRE [THE HEART IS A LONELY HUNTER]

"[C]e livre impossible à classer, ni brutal, ni sexy, ni religieux, ni relatif à la guerre de Sécession [...]" — Denis de Rougement

Denis de Rougemont's preface contains a brief but diverting account of February House, the Brooklyn artist's commune where McCullers briefly lived and worked alongside such figures as W.H. Auden, Benjamin Britten, Jane and Paul Bowles, and Gypsy Rose Lee, and the only house of bohemian intellectual ferment worth his notice in the whole of America: "Je crois bien que toute la jeune littérature, la jeune musique, la jeune peinture, la jeune choréographie américaines ont traversé cette maison de Brooklyn, seul entre de pensée et d'art que j'aie trouvé dans un grand ville de ce pays." Translated "from the American" by Marie-Madeleine Fayet and published as part of the series "Le Carnet Cosmopolite."

The Object

Paris: Editions Stock, (1947). 7.5'' x 5''. Original cream wrappers printed in red and black. In original glassine. 352, [2] pages. Edition of 2,750 numbered copies and 100 copies hors commerce; this copy marked H. C. Light edgewear, toning to wrappers and glassine, more pronounced on spine. Minor chipping to glassine.

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