Selected Stories of Eudora Welty 1st Modern Library Ed/early HC/DJ signed, RARE!
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Selected Stories of Eudora Welty . With an Introduction by Katherine Anne Porter. New York: The ModernLibrary, 1954 [i.e., c.1963.] 12mo, full bright green cloth with gilt titles to spine, in DJ; xxiii, 214pp. First edition, early printing : Toledano binding ‘11,’ with ‘Kent’ endpapers, and DJ design ‘i.’ Signed by Eudora Welty on the half-title page. The stories of Eudora Welty, containing all of A Curtain of Green and Other Stories and The Wide Net and Other Stories . Welty’s distinctive voice and wry observations are rooted in the southern conversational tradition. The stories in this volume are no exception; taken from the first two collections she published, they range in tone from the quietly understated and psychologically subtle to the outrageously grotesque. Linking them all is Welty’s ear for the language expressing the point of view of the American South. “She’s a lot smarter than her cousins in Beula,” someone remarks about a reputed suicide in one story. “Especially Edna Earle, that never did get to be what you’d call a heavy thinker. Edna Earle could sit and ponder all day on how the little tail of the ‘C’ got through the ‘L’ in a Coca-Cola sign.” Tight, clean, crisp and entirely unmarked, certainly very NF, in a very NF price-clipped DJ (372 titles on verso) with no appreciable wear. A lovely signed copy of this somewhat
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