NMLP P-004183 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-04

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Carson McCullers · Houghton Mifflin · 1940

Decisive jacket point: later-state jackets replace the 'Summer's Lease' blurb with an advertisement for 'Reflections in a Golden Eye' (1941) on the rear panel, so presence of that ad means the jacket post-dates the true first issue. The book-club edition has no 2.50 price and a blind-stamped board.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-004183 for "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-004183, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).