Ida M'Toy

Urbana: University of Illinois, (1979).

Price: $1,500.00

Hardcover. First edition. Quarto. Green cloth gilt (one of 140 copies issued thus, there were also 199 copies issued in red cloth, no priority). A small, faint spot on the front board, else fine in cloth covered boards as issued. Copy number 30 of 350 Signed copies of this portrait of a Mississippi midwife and shop owner originally published in 1942. Additionally, this copy is Inscribed by Welty to her editor, close friend, and co-dedicatee of *The Ponder Heart*, Mary Lou Aswell: "To Mary Lou and Agi with dearest love at Christmas. Eudora. December 1979." A nice association. Polk assigns "second state" status to the green binding, but it is curious that this early numbered presentation copy is in green cloth. *Polk* A23.1.

Item #308175
ISBN: 0252007603

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Item #308175 Ida M'Toy. Eudora WELTY.
Ida M'Toy
Ida M'Toy

Eudora Welty
birth name: Eudora Welty
born: 4/13/1909
died: 7/23/2001
nationality: USA

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American short-story writer and novelist whose work is focused with great precision on the regional manners of people inhabiting a small Mississippi town that resembles her own birthplace and the Delta country. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore

Collecting tips:

A well-known poet of our acquaintance used to refer to Eudora Welty as "Aunt Meatloaf." When queried about it, his justification was "Well, everyone likes meatloaf, don't they?" This may be more true of Welty than meatloaf in an increasingly vegetarian world, but he made his point. Welty's first two real books A Curtain of Green (1941), a collection of stories; and The Robber Bridegroom (1942) are both very scarce in fine condition, with the latter title, an amusing fairy tale of sorts, always in demand. Her third book, a collection of short stories, of wartime vintage The Wide Net (1943) is just as scarce, but if you can find it with the pink spine-lettering unfaded, or barely so, it jumps up to rare in our estimation. Preceding publication of A Curtain of Green, an advance excerpt from the book called The Key was issued by the publisher. It is a rarity, and expensive when found, but surprisingly not that eagerly sought. Welty has participted in the publication of a number of limited and signed editions. Our favorite, and one of the scarcest is A Sweet Devouring (1969), a short but evocative essay about her youthful obsession with books and reading.

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