NMLP P-004178 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-04

The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

Carson McCullers · Houghton Mifflin · 1951

No formal book-club issue is the primary concern here; identify the trade first by the unclipped first-issue jacket and the clean 1951 copyright page. Be wary of later Houghton printings that carry additional dates or printing statements.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-004178 for "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" by Carson McCullers (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-004178, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).