Reflections in a Golden Eye.
Inscribed Proofs
McCullers, Carson. Reflections in a Golden Eye. Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Company…, 1941.
6 ¾ x 11 ½ inches; pad-bound in blue paper and cardboard wrappers; cloth back-strip, tearing at heel; paper label with handwritten price and publication date; some light soiling; wear to extremities. In a specially made quarter-morocco slipcase.
Uncorrected galley proof of the first edition of McCullers’s second novel. A presentation copy, inscribed to Paris Review managing editor Gene Andrewski: “For Gene Andrewsky [sic] / Best / Carson McCullers.”
The texts of the galley proof and the published version are nearly identical, although there is at least one small difference, found in the following line:
“The light behind him laid a great purple shadow of himself on the smooth grass of the lawn.”
(p.10 in the galley proofs)
“The light behind him laid a great dim shadow of himself on the smooth grass of the lawn.”
(p.26 as published)
As a young editor at the literary quarterly, Gene Andrewski elicited a rare interview from Alice Toklas after the death of Gertrude Stein. He later went on to a successful career as an off-Broadway theater producer and became a famed collector of Hollywood memorabilia.
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