The Optimist’s Daughter $1,250.00
New York: Random House (1972)
One of 300 numbered copies signed by the author. Approximately 75 were bound upside down and destroyed so the actual edition is around 225 copies specially bound. Near fine in slip case with some rubbing.
The Ponder Heart $800.00
New York: Random House (1956)
A play adapted (by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov) from the story by Eudora Welty.
Signed by Eudora Welty. Fine in dust jacket.
The Little Store $150.00
Newton, Iowa: Tamazunchale Press (1985)
One of 250 numbered copies. Fine in green leather with gold stamping. Miniature book. Image enlarges to actual size.
Eudora Welty and Virginia Woolf $45.00
Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press (1997)
Gender, Genre and Influence.
Near fine in dust jacket.
“The pleasures of reading”, writes Eudora Welty, are “like those of a Christmas cake, a sweet devouring”. Suzan Harrison here examines Welty’s “devouring” of the works of Virginia Woolf and the ways in which Welty assimilates and transforms in each of her major novels the concerns she inherited from Woolf. Harrison avoids the implication of direct imitation. Rather, drawing on Mikhail Bakhtin’s theories of the novel and his concept of dialogism, as well as various feminist theoretical perspectives, she describes Woolf’s influence on Welty as a creative, awakening force that led to her own development as an artist. In each chapter, Harrison considers a pair of novels, one by Woolf and one by Welty, exploring the dialogues between the two works and illustrating a particular strategy used by these authors to appropriate and revise traditional masculine discourse. Most notable are their portrayal of women, experimentation with multivoiced narrative structures, incorporation of other genres into the context of their novels, and construction of new images of the female artist. To the Lighthouse, Delta Wedding, Orlando, The Robber Bridegroom, The Waves, Losing Battles, The Optimist’s Daughter – Harrison covers all these novels, tracing in those by Welty a maturing artistic vision and independence. By reading Eudora Welty in tandem with Virginia Woolf, Harrison locates Welty’s fiction in the tradition of modernism and emphasizes Welty’s interest in extending the boundaries of the novel as a genre – features of her work that are obscured by her categorization as a southern writer. Harrison succeeds in creating a new context – one of writers and literary trends outside the South – in which toread Welty’s novels while also providing a new vantage point from which to regard Woolf’s artistic achievement. Her book deserves the close attention of readers of Welty’s and Woolf’s fiction as well as scholars of feminist literary criticism, genre studies, and cultural studies.
A Writer’s Eye $35.00
Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi Press (1994)
Collected Book Reviews
Signed by the editor Pearl McHaney. Fine in dust jacket.
Although she is eminent primarily as the prize-winning author of classic works of fiction, Eudora Welty is notable also as an astute literary critic. Her essays on the art of fiction and on the writers who enlarged the range of the short story and the novel are definitive pieces. Her distinguished book reviews, along with her critical essays, augment her reputation for being one of the most discerning author-critics in literary America. A Writer’s Eye includes all of Welty’s book reviews, even one published in the New York Times Book Review under the pseudonym “Michael Ravenna”. Sixteen of the reviews were collected previously in Welty’s The Eye of the Story (1978). In this collection Pearl Amelia McHaney’s introduction records the history of Welty’s career in book reviewing and illuminates the honesty and compassion with which Welty wrote reviews. Placed beside her authoritative critical essays, this volume enhances Welty’s considerable literary stature and completes the image of Eudora Welty as a consummate woman of letters.
Country Churchyards $150.00
Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi (2000)
One of 150 numbered copies. As new in slipcase.
The Optimist’s Daughter $1,500.00
New York: Random House (1972)
Signed by the author. A very nice copy in like dust jacket.
A Writer’s Eye: Collected Book Reviews $750.00
Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi (1994)
Signed by Eudora Welty. Edited by Pearl McHaney.
Fine in dust jacket.
Ida M’Toy $400.00
Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press (1979)
One of 350 numbered copies signed by the author. Illustrated with two photographs of Ida M’Toy by the author. Copies were published in red and green cloth with no priority. This copy is green. Near fine.
Resisting History $45.00
Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press (2007)
Gender, Modernity, and Authorship in William Faulkner, Zora Neal Hurston, and Eudora Welty
Fine in dust jacket.
In a major reinterpretation, Resisting History reveals that women, as subjects of writing and as writing subjects themselves, played a far more important role in shaping the landscape of modernism than has been previously acknowledged. Here Barbara Ladd offers powerful new readings of three southern writers who reimagined authorship between World War I and the mid-1950s. Resisting History challenges ideas about history as a coherent narrative and about the development of U.S. modernism and points the way to new histories of literary and cultural modernisms in which the work of women shares center stage with the work of men.
Tell about the Night Flowers $45.00
Jackson, Mississippi: University of Mississippi Press (2013)
Eudora Welty’s Gardening Letters (1940-1949)
Fine in dust jacket
The Robber Bridegroom $3,000.00
West Hatfield, Massachusetts: Pennyroyal Press (1987)
One of 150 copies signed by Eudora Welty and Barry Moser.
Eudora Welty’s story is llustrated with Moser’s engravings from the original blocks. The book design is also by Moser: beautifully bound in deep red leather with gold spine labeling and marbled end papers.
Losing Battles $550.00
New York: Random House (1970)
One of 300 numbered copies signed by the author. Fine in slipcase.
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty $500.00
New York: Harcourt (1980)
Signed by the author. Near fine in bright dust jacket with light edge wear.
Ida M’Toy $400.00
Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press (1979)
One of 350 numbered copies signed by the author. Illustrated with two photographs of Ida M’Toy by the author. Copies were published in red and green cloth with no priority. This copy is red. Near fine.
The Late Novels of Eudora Welty $40.00
Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press (1998)
Foreword by Reynolds Price.
Near fine in dust jacket.
Eudora Welty as Photographer $35.00
Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi (2009)
Fine in dust jacket.