First edition, second issue jacket, without the window on the front panel. 8vo. Original grey cloth, spine and cover lettered in black, dust jacket. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Houghton Mifflin, 1941.
The author's second novel, set on an army base in Georgia. The novel explores themes of homosexuality, voyeurism, mental illness, and death. When writing the introduction for a new edition in 1950 Tenessee Williams placed it within the new American Gothic. "Reflections in a Golden Eye is one of the Purest and most powerful of those works which are conceived in that Sense of The Awful which is the desperate black root of nearly all significant modern art, from the Guernica of Picasso to the cartoons of Charles Addams." A very good copy, extremities of jacket rubbed and nicked, with a few tape repairs.
