Description
For sale: a rare and exceptional first edition, early printing hardcover copy of Clock Without Hands by Carson McCullers. First Edition unstated, 1961 Houghton Mifflin. Fourth Printing stated.
The exterior of the book is in Near Fine condition, with clean, bright, cloth boards with a strong sheen. Also with, strong title gilt on the lightly sunned spine and even stronger on the large title design on the front. Also, clean page blocks, a tight binding, no spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, mild edge wear and . The interior of the book is also in Near Fine condition with the ghost of an erased price on the first free end paper. No other marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership inside. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright, making it an excellent addition to any collection.
The dust jacket is in Very Good condition with price intact on the front flap, mild surface wear and heavy edge wear, a 1″ tear and a 1 x 3/4″ missing piece from the top front corner. Looks good in a recent Brodart archival wrap with some surface wear.
Set in Georgia on the eve of court-ordered integration, Clock Without Hands contains McCullers’s most poignant statement on race, class, and justice. A small-town druggist dying of leukemia calls himself and his community to account in this tale of change and changelessness, of death and the death-in-life that is hate. It is a tale, as McCullers herself wrote, of “response and responsibility–of man toward his own livingness.”
Ships promptly in corrugated mailer with book wrapped in both craft paper and multiple layers of bubble wrap.
