Original Typescript for "Madame Zilensky and the King of Finland"
(No Place): (No Publisher), 1941.
Final typescript, probably a setting copy, matching the text as it first appeared in the December 20, 1941 issue of The New Yorker. It was then included in the collection The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, published by Houghton Mifflin in 1951 and since then has been anthologized alongside 49 other great American short stories by Faulkner, Hawthorne, Hemingway, Poe etc. 16pp. inserted into plastic sleeves in a black binder inside a black portfolio with paper label, housed in a custom quarter leather and oatmeal cloth slipcase, lettered in gilt on black band, mistitled Madam [sic] Zilensky. Signed by McCullers in blue ink on the final page. Faint impression of paperclip on first page, else Fine. An original typescript signed by the The Heart is a Lonely Hunter author. Item #171211010
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