Music From Spain

Greenville, Mississippi: The Levee Press, 1948.

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Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 62pp. Papercovered boards with paper spine label. The fragile boards are slightly soiled and moderately worn with the top corners gently bumped, spine label is tanned and nicked, a very good copy. One of 775 copies Signed by Welty on the limitation page. Additionally Inscribed by Welty to authors Allen Tate and Caroline Gordon on the front fly: "To Caroline + Allen with love from Eudora." Kentucky-born authors Tate and Gordon married in 1924, became an integral part of the Southern Agrarian / Fugitive movement, and enjoyed a long friendship with Welty. A distinguished association. Polk A6:1.

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Item #500059 Music From Spain. Eudora WELTY.
Music From Spain
Music From Spain

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

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Biography

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

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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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