Photographs $6,500.00
Jackson, Mississippi: University of Mississippi Press (1989)
One of 52 lettered copies bound in full black leather. Signed by the author. Also laid in is an original photograph. All enclosed in a full silk folding box with frontispiece photograph of a woman from the thirties. Fine and beautiful as issued.
The Robber Bridegroom $400.00
New York: Harcourt (1987)
Illustrated by Barry Moser. Inscribed and dated by the author and by the artist Moser. Fine in dust jacket. Rare.
Occasions: Selected Writings $35.00
Jackson, Mississippi: University of Mississippi Press (2009)
Signed by the editor Pearl McHaney.
Near fine in dust jacket.
Eudora Welty and Politics $44.95
Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press (2001)
Fine in dust jacket.
This collection of complementary and interrelated essays by ten well-known Welty critics brings welcome clarification to the controversial subject of Eudora Welty and the political, a topic once presumed to be closed tight. As the essays prove, Welty has been inaccurately assessed by critics from Diana Trilling in the Nation (1943) to Claudia Roth Pierpont in the New Yorker (1998) as a writer who avoids political, historical, or cultural engagement in her fiction. The better question these essayists explore is not whether but how Welty’s work is to be understood as political.
Harriet Pollack, Suzanne Marrs, Peggy Prenshaw, Noel Polk, Suzan Harrison, Ann Romines, Rebecca Mark, Barbara Ladd, Sharon Baris, and Daniele Pitavy-Souques place Welty’s seeming rejection of the political in her 1961 essay “Must the Novelist Crusade?” into the cultural and historical context of 1940-1960, when “individualism” was a code word for political and personal freedom and was defined in contrast to totalitarianism as represented by Mussolini, Hitler, and Stalin. Welty, they show, though she repudiated the concept of fiction as editorial, wrote stories that were inherently and unavoidably political.
The essayists look closely at how surprisingly often Welty’s fiction, criticism, and photographs are oblique responses to public political issues — political corruption, racial apartheid, poverty, McCarthyism and the Rosenberg trials, violent resistance to the civil rights movement, integration of schools, and filial piety and southern reverence for identities of the cultural past. The deceptive opposition of the terms private and political may be most at fault for misreading Welty.
As the only livingauthor to be reedited by the Library of America, Eudora Welty deserves a sound appreciation of her complex oeuvre. Eudora Welty and Politics provides just that, approaching Welty’s work from an all-new point of view to reveal how the writer repeatedly registered a political vision in her work.
A Daring Life: A Biography of Eudora Welty $20.00
Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi (2012)
Mississippi author Eudora Welty, the first living writer to be published in the Library of America series, mentored many of today’s greatest fiction writers and is a fascinating woman, having lived the majority of the twentieth century (1909-2001).
Her life reflects a century of change and is closely entwined with many events that mark our recent history. This biography follows this twentieth-century path while telling Welty’s story, beginning with her parents and their important influence on her reading and writing life.
The chapters that follow focus on her education and her most important teachers; her life during the Depression and how her career, just getting started, is interrupted by World War II; and how she shows independence and courage through her writing during the turbulent civil rights period of the 1950s and 1960s.
After years of care giving and the deaths of all her immediate family members, Welty persevered and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for The Optimist’s Daughter. Her popularity soared in the 1980s after she delivered the three William E. Massey Lectures to standing-room-only crowds at Harvard, and the lectures were later published as “One Writer’s Beginnings” and became a New York Times bestseller.
This biography intends to introduce readers to one of the most significant women writers of the past century, a prolific author who transcends her Mississippi roots and has written short stories, novels, and non-fiction that will endure for all time.
The Golden Apples $400.00
New York: Harcourt (1949)
Nice copy in bright dust jacket with lightly sunned spine and light edge wear.
Losing Battles $500.00
New York: Random House (1970)
Signed by the author. Fine in dust jacket.
One Time One Place $250.00
New York: Random House (1971)
Near fine in dust jacket with fading to the spine.
Bye-Bye Brevoort $400.00
Specially published by Palaemon Press for New Stage Theatre in Jackson, Mississippi (1980)
One of 400 numbered copies signed by the author. Red and pink marbled boards. Near fine.
Eudora: A Writer’s Life $45.00
New York: Doubleday (1998)
Very good in decorated wrapper.
Author and Agent: Eudora Welty and Diarmuid Russell $75.00
New York, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (1991)
Signed by the editor Michael Kreyling. Near fine in dust jacket.
Diarmuid Russell was Eudora Welty’s literary agent and her friend for over thirty years. This book, written with an emphasis on their spirited correspondence, shows the professional bond which existed between agent and author, as her talent took off and flourished. It dwells on the faith he had in her work and the trust she placed in his judgement. Author Michael Kreyling is a professor of English at Vanderbilt University. Photographs.
Ladies Start Your Engines: Women Writers on Cars and the Road $24.95
Boston, MA: Fabor (1996)
Includes excerpt from Welty’s One Writer’s Beginnings. Very good in dust jacket.
The Golden Apples $2,000.00
New York: Harcourt (1949)
Signed by the author. Very fine in bright dust jacket. Price clipped.
Acrobats in the Park $750.00
Northridge, CA: Lord John Press (1980)
One hundred copies were printed in this deluxe limited edition series. This is a presentation copy, issued out of series and signed by the author. Fine in decorated cloth boards with marbled end papers.
Thirteen Stories $1,000.00
New York: Harvest (1965)
Paperback original. Signed by the author. Laid in is a 1/2 page letter hand written by Eudora and signed. Paper wrappers show wear. Uncommon.
Bye-Bye Brevoort $1,000.00
Specially published by Palaemon Press for New Stage Theatre in Jackson, Mississippi (1980)
One of 26 lettered copies signed by the author. Blue boards with a leather spine.
What There Is To Say We Have Said $50.00
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2011)
Signed by the editor, Suzanne Marrs
Fine in decorated wrappers.
Morgana $50.00
Jackson, Mississippi: University of Mississippi Press (1988)
Fine in dust jacket. Signed by Mildred Nungester Wolfe.
Novel Writing in an Apocalytic Time $700.00
New Orleans: Faust (1986)
One of 300 numbered copies signed by Walker Percy. Also, signed by Eudora Welty who wrote the Afterword. Fine with decorated endpapers and cloth boards.