Riverside Press, Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1946. First edition. 8vo. Yellow cloth stamped in black. 195 pp. "First edition" and price written in ink at the top of the free front endpaper. Bookplate on front pasetdown. Otherwise fine / in near fine dust jacket. Item #2300

Riverside Press Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941. First Printing. 8vo. 8-3/8" x 5-5/8". Grey cloth covered boards stamped in black and yellow. 183 pp. Tight copy with a slightly discolored spine. A small touch of blue paint on back cover (see photo). Address sticker at top of front pastedown ep. Overall very good. / Jacket is sturdy but has creasing and chipping along top and bottom edges and a 1-1/2" closed tear at bottom of front panel.

In her second novel, Carson McCullers' speaks with great eloquence and power. The scene is laid in a Southern army post; the characters are a neurotic captain, his wife who is having an affair with the major next door, the major's wife who is an invalid, her Filipino servant, and a private who is so fascinated by the captain's wife that he visits her room at night, unknown to her, to watch her as she sleeps with the moonlight across her face. "Reflections in a Golden Eye", McCullers second novel, is a book for today and tomorrow; a book that will not let itself be forgotten. It has, as Louis Untermeyer says: 'No literary ancestors, although there will be those who will see in the powerful situations something of D. H. Lawrence and something of Dostoievsky.'. Item #2203