Reflections In A Golden Eye.

First edition of the author's classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For George Seferiades Cordially yours and good luck Carson McCullers from Henry Miller." The recipient, George Seferiadis, the veteran Greek diplomat and scholar who as George Seferis the poet won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1963, was a liberal thinker who inherited a strong democratic tradition from his family. His pen name, a shortened form of his family name, reflects what his friend the British poet Rex Warner called his fondness for “innocent, easily penetrable disguises.” It also emphasized his role as wanderer, since sefer is rooted in the Arabic word for journey, emerging in Swahili as safari. The announcement of the Nobel Prize for his poetry was made in October, 1963, and Mr. Seferis received the prize personally in Athens that December. A year later, he was made an honorary Doctor of Literature at Oxford, and the following year Princeton awarded him an honorary degree. In 1966, Seferis became a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Seferis and fellow writer Henry Miller were close friends and Miller had this copy inscribed by McCullers as a gift. Near fine in a near fine first issue dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell and chemise box. An exceptional association copy, linking three great writers of the twentieth century.