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Franklin Library: A Curtain of Green and Other Stories: Why I Live at the P.O.: Livvie: A Worn Path: Death of a Traveling Salesman: The Bride of Innisfallen Franklin Library FULL leather top-of-the-line edition of "The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty," a Limited edition, Illustrated by Bernard Fuchs, one of the FIRST EDITION SOCIETY series, with a 'fascimile signature', published in 1980. Bound in a Most Handsome scarlet red Moroccan leather, the book has burgundy silk French moire end leaves, satin ribbon, hubbed spines, 22 kt. gold gilding on three edges---in FINE condition. Eudora Welty, who lived from 1909-2001, was born in Jackson, MISSISSIPPI. Welty attended Mississippi State College for Women and graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1929. She later studied Creative Writing at the State University of Iowa. She photographed pictures of the Deep South as a part of Roosevelt's "New Deal." During the 1930s, Welty worked as a publicity agent for the Works Progress Administration, a job that sent her around Mississippi. On her own time, she took some memorable photographs during the Great Depression of people from all economic and social classes. Collections of her photographs were published as " One Time, One Place" (1971) and "Photographs" (1989). Her photography was the basis for several of her short stories, including
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