WELTY, EUDORA
Stories, Essays and Memoir of Eudora Welty: A Curtain of Green, and Other Stories; the Wide Net, and Other Stories; the Golden Apples; the Bride of Innisfallen, and Other Stories; Other Stories; Selected Essays and One Writer's Beginnings
New York: The Library of America / Literary Classics of the United States, Inc, 1998. Hardcover. ISBN: 1883011558. Stated first printing of a Library of America anthology of the principal writings of Eudora Welty (1909-2001). Welty's works are often focused on the people and places of her native Mississippi, and, per the jacket flap, are described as "impossible to overpraise" by Salman Rushdie. Selections made by Richard Ford and Michael Kreyling, who have also proved endnotes. --- In full navy cloth-covered boards with navy satin sewn-in placemarker. Volume wrapped in black dust jacket with Jill Krementz photographic portrait of the author to front panel. --- A tightly-bound, well-preserved copy lacking apparent damages. Dust jacket also in great shape, though with mild rubbing & a small tear to lower front edge; wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Small Octavo - 7-1/2 to 8 in. tall; x, 976, [6] pages. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .
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Keywords: 1883011558 >>Classic Fiction, Literature