Carson Mc Cullers Clock Without Hands First and similar items

CLOCK WITHOUT HANDS By Carson McCullers New York/Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company/The Riverside Press, (1961). First edition, first printing, first issue. Contains publisher's "first printing" statement to the copyright page, and "1961" printed to the title page, and first state dust jacket with cellophane insert to die-cut circle in front panel. McCuller's final novel, set in small-town Georgia on the eve of court-ordered integration. "Her most troubled work. A novel ten years in the making."--Mary Ellen Snodgrass. "Impeccable. The most impressive of her novels."--Atlantic Monthly. A presentable collectible. Small faint tan stain to outer lower page edges, light rubbing to lower shelf-edges, else very good plus in orange linen with gilt embossed titles to a circular black panel to the front cover and with gilt embossed titles to the spine; in a very good plus first issue dust jacket with peek-a-boo cellaphane to a die-cut circle to the front panel, two very short tears to the lower die-cut edge, rub-wear to the rear flap fold, and tiny surface nicks and crimps to the upper and lower spine edges and corner tips; original printed $4.00 price still intact to the front inner flap. Octavo; 241 pages. FREE SHIPPING TO THE USA PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS!