The Bride of the Innisfallen and Other Stories $650.00
New York: Harcourt (1955)
First edition, second issue. Inscribed by the author. Copyright contains five dates. Blue-green boards with cloth spine. Very good with wear in like dust jacket.
One Writer’s Garden: Eudora Welty’s Home Place $35.00
Jackson, Mississippi: University of Mississippi Press (2011) Fine in dust jacket.
By the time she reached her late twenties, Eudora Welty (1909-2001) was launching a distinguished literary career. She was also becoming a capable gardener under the tutelage of her mother, Chestina Welty, who designed their modest garden in Jackson, Mississippi. From the beginning, Eudora wove images of southern flora and gardens into her writing, yet few outside her personal circle knew that the images were drawn directly from her passionate connection to and abiding knowledge of her own garden.
Near the end of her life, Welty still resided in her parents’ house, but the garden-and the friends who remembered it-had all but vanished. When a local garden designer offered to help bring it back, Welty began remembering the flowers that had grown in what she called “my mother’s garden.” By the time Eudora died, that gardener, Susan Haltom, was leading a historic restoration. When Welty’s private papers were released several years after her death, they confirmed that the writer had sought both inspiration and a creative outlet there. This book contains many previously unpublished writings, including literary passages and excerpts from Welty’s private correspondence about the garden.
The authors of One Writer’s Garden also draw connections between Welty’s gardening and her writing. They show how the garden echoed the prevailing style of Welty’s mother’s generation, which in turn mirrored wider trends in American life: Progressive-era optimism, a rising middle class, prosperity, new technology, women’s clubs, garden clubs, streetcar suburbs, civic beautification, conservation, plant introductions, and garden writing. The authors illustrate this garden’s history–and the broader story of how American gardens evolved in the early twentieth century-with images from contemporary garden literature, seed catalogs, and advertisements, as well as unique historic photographs. Noted landscape photographer Langdon Clay captures the restored garden through the seasons.
In Black and White $1,000.00
Northridge, California: Lord John Press (1985)
Photographs of the 30s and 40s
One of 100 numbered copies signed by Welty and Anne Tyler who wrote the Introduction. Fine in decorated boards with black leather boards with black leather spine in slip case.
On William Faulkner $200.00
Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi Press (2003)
One of 150 numbered copies. Fine in slipcase.
Eudora Welty (1909-2001) and William Faulkner (1897-1962) were almost unquestionably Mississippi’s leading literary lions during the twentieth century. Their influence on American literature is immeasurable.
On William Faulkner brings together Welty’s reviews, essays, lectures, and musings on Faulkner, including such gems as her reviews of Intruder in the Dust and The Selected Letters of William Faulkner, as well as her comments during her presentation of the Gold Medal to Faulkner during the National Institute of Arts and Letters awards ceremony in 1962. The collection also features an excerpt from a letter she wrote to the novelist Jean Stafford, telling of meeting Faulkner and of going sailing with him. Included too are Welty’s impassioned defense of Faulkner’s work-published as a letter to the New Yorker-and the obituary of the Nobel laureate that she wrote for the Associated Press.
In addition, the book includes a cryptic postcard Faulkner wrote to Welty from Hollywood, plus six photographs, and a caricature of Faulkner drawn by Welty during the 1930s.
Commenting on the place of both writers in contemporary literature, an essay by the noted literary scholar Noel Polk puts the collection in context and offers assessment and appreciation of their achievements in American literature.
On William Faulkner is a valuable resource for exploring Faulkner’s work and sensing Welty’s critical voice. Her sharp critical eye and graceful prose make her an astute commentator on his legacy.
Eudora Welty is the author of many novels and story collections, including The Optimist’s Daughter (Pulitzer Prize), Losing Battles, The Ponder Heart, The Robber Bridegroom, A Curtain of Green and Other Stories, as well as three collections of her photographic work (all from the University Press of Mississippi)-Photographs, Country Churchyards, and One Time, One Place: Mississippi in the Depression.
William Faulkner is the author of The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, Sanctuary, As I Lay Dying, among others. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949.
Noel Polk, a professor of English at the University of Southern Mississippi, is the author of many critical studies on Welty and Faulkner and is the co-editor of the Library of America edition of Faulkner’s works.
Delta Wedding $1,250.00
New York, NY: Harcourt (1946)
Signed by the author. Very good. Dust jacket with edge wear.
The Eye of the Story $250.00
New York: Random House (1978)
Inscribed by the author. Good copy only with spotting on page edge on top and side.
The Bride of the Innisfallen and Other Stories $1,250.00
New York: Harcourt (1955)
First edition, second issue. Signed by the author. Copyright contains five dates. Blue -green boards with cloth boards with cloth spine. Very nice copy in like dust jacket.
A Tyrannous Eye $55.00
Jackson, Mississippi: University of Mississippi Press (2014)
Fine in decorated boards. Issued without dust jacket.
In Black and White $400.00
Northridge, California: Lord John Press (1985)
Photographs of the 30s and 40s
One of 400 numbered copies signed by Welty and Anne Tyler who wrote the Introduction. Fine in decorated boards and cloth spine.
Some Notes on River Country $250.00
Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi Press (2003)
One of 150 copies. Fine in slipcase.
The Wide Net and Other Stories $2,000.00
New York: Harcourt (1943)
Inscribed by the author. Good copy in worn, price clipped dust jacket.
The Shoe Bird $750.00
New York: Harcourt (1964)
Signed by the author. Fine in dust jacket. Pictures by Beth Krush.
Welty: Two Volume Library of America $5,000.00
New York, NY: Library of America (1998)
Two Volume Set: Complete Novels & Stories, Essays and Memoir
Signed by the author. Very rare in fine condition with like dust jackets.
Early Escapades $30.00
Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi (2005)
Signed by the editor, Patti Carr Black. Fine in dust jacket.
Eudora Welty (1909-2001), in her writing and in her conversation, had a dazzling and ironic wit. Many friends remember the laughter she provoked through her sense of the absurd. Early Escapades explores the initial manifestations of her comic and creative energy, from the poems of her adolescence to the promising parodies and caricatures she wrote and drew as a young adult. The compilation includes pen-and-ink drawings as well as caricatures, lim-ericks, poems, essays, editorial pieces, and society notes written by the young Welty. The earliest example of her work here is a reproduction of a small handmade book she wrote and illustrated to entertain her brother Edward. Titled “The Glorious Apology,” the book is a collage of parodied newspaper and magazine clippings that tell the rollicking story of one Fitzhugh Green, son of the “whispering saxophonist” Artimus H. Green.
Early Escapades offers a prelude to Welty’s mature fiction where her sharp comic sensibilities focused on deeply rooted issues: the ambiguity of relationships, the complex struggles for power in families and communities, the duality of people’s perceptions. Her comedic work is a trenchant commentary on the way we lead our lives. Whether through her writings or drawings, Welty created laughter from the painful condition of being human. Early Escapades shows how Welty’s art, even in its nascent stages, embraced the world’s marvels, chaos, and mystery with passionate sympathy.
Eudora Welty is the author of many novels and story collections, including The Optimist’s Daughter (Pulitzer Prize), Losing Battles, The Ponder Heart, The Robber Bridegroom, and A Curtain of Green and Other Stories. Patti Carr Black is a museum consultant and independent scholar in Jackson, Mississippi. She is the author of Art in Mississippi, 1720-1980 and The Southern Writers Quiz Book and coauthor with Marion Barnwell of Touring Literary Mississippi, all published by University Press of Mississippi.
Photographs $2,500.00
Jackson, Mississippi: University of Mississippi Press (1989)
Foreword by Reynolds Price.
Signed by Welty. Very rare. Fine in cloth boards in like dust jacket.
Morgana $350.00
Jackson, Mississippi: University of Mississippi Press (1988)
One of 250 numbered copies signed by Welty and illustrator Mildred Wolfe. This copy is out of series. Fine is slipcase.
The Wide Net and Other Stories $3,000.00
New York: Harcourt (1943)
Advance copy inscribed by the author. Sunned and faded dust jacket has the number 9-23 written on dust jacket front. Dust jacket spine is faded with edge wear.
Three Papers on Fiction $600.00
Northhampton: Massachusetts (1962)
Inscribed by the author. Blue wrappers with black stamping. Very fine.
One Writer’s Beginnings $750.00
Cambridge: Harvard (1984)
Signed by the author. Nice copy with very light wear. Fine in dust jacket.
On William Faulkner $35.00
Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi Press (2003)
Fine in dust jacket. Afterword by Noel Polk.
Eudora Welty (1909-2001) and William Faulkner (1897-1962) were Mississippi’s leading literary lions during the 20th century. This volume brings together Welty’s reviews, essays, lectures, and musings on Faulkner.