The Shoe Bird

New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, (1964).

Price: $650.00

Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated by Beth Krush. Octavo. A little soiling on the boards, near fine in slightly wrinkled, very good or better dust jacket. Inscribed by the author to George Bixby, who published Welty's essays *A Pageant of Birds* and *A Sweet Devouring* in his Albondocani Press series: "For George Bixby, with best wishes, Eudora Welty. September 24, 1969." Additionally Welty has made an addition to the text of page 72. A children's book, and very uncommon signed.

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Item #574821 The Shoe Bird. Eudora WELTY.
The Shoe Bird
The Shoe Bird

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

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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