NMLP P-004175 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-04

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

Carson McCullers · Houghton Mifflin · 1951

This omnibus is the first book appearance of the title novella (which had appeared in Harper's Bazaar in 1943); it also reprints the three earlier novels and gathers six shorter stories

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-004175 for "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" by Carson McCullers (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-004175, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).