Number | Item | Edition | Condition | Cost |
16-1. | Welty, The Robber Bridegroom (1942) | first printing | (glue residue on both pastedowns, remnants of a label on front free endpage, but all ink on the boards is bright/the jacket was laminated; the back is badly creased; and the spine is chipped; but the art is still bright - not museum quality but a presentable copy of a rare book) | 75.00 |
16-2. | Welty, Delta Wedding (1946) | a) first printing | (F minus/VG minus) | 50.00 |
b) later printing, signed | (VG/VG) | 75.00 | ||
16-3. | Welty, On Short Stories (1949) | Limited edition of 1,500 | (F/F glassine wrapper) | 125.00 |
16-4. | Welty, The Golden Apples (1949) | first printing | (F minus/F minus) | 40.00 |
16-5. | Welty, The Ponder Heart (1954) | first English printing, review copy with slip | (F minus/F) | 175.00 |
16-6. | Welty, The Bride of the Innisfallen (1955) | first printing, first issue | (F/F minus) | 75.00 |
16-7. | Welty, Three Papers on Fiction (1962) | paperback original | (VG) | 65.00 |
16-8. | Welty, The Shoe Bird (1964) | first printing | (F minus/VG) | 35.00 |
16-9. | Welty, Losing Battles (1970) | first printing | (F/F) | 10.00 |
16-10. | Welty, The Optimist's Daughter (1972) | first printing | (F minus/VG plus) | 15.00 |
16-11. | Welty, The Eye of the Story (1977) | a) first printing | (RM, else F/F minus) | 15.00 |
b) a typed "extract," signed | (F/VG) | 75.00 | ||
16-12. | Welty, Acrobats In a Park (1980) | one of 20 signed presentation copies signed copies | (F/none, as issued) | 450.00 |
16-13. | Welty, The Collected Stories (1980) | first printing | (F/VG) | 10.00 |
16-14. | Welty, in McDonald, Ross, Self-Portrait (1981): Welty contributed a foreward to this autobiography. | paperback original, inscribed by Welty | (F) | 75.00 |
16-15. | Welty, The Country Gourmet (1982): A spiral-bound cookbook with a foreward by Welty. | second printing | (F) | 20.00 |
16-16. | Welty, Standing Room Only (1983): A spiral-bound cookbook with a "narrative" by Welty. | first printing | (F) | 20.00 |
16-17. | Welty, One Writer's Beginnings (1984) | a) first printing, signed | (VG minus/VG) | 10.00 |
b) first printing | (F/VG) | 20.00 | ||
16-18. | Welty, in Mothers and Daughters (1987): A book published by Aperture on "that special quality" between mothers and daughters, with essays by Tillie Olsen and Estelle Jussim; and photographs by Eudora Welty and others. | first printing | (VG/VG) | 15.00 |
16-19. | Welty, Morganna (1988) | first trade edition, inscribed | (the book is badly chewed up around the top of the spine - bad dog!/F) | 60.00 |
16-20. | Welty, A Worn Path (1991) | first separate publication of this story | (F/F) | 25.00 |
16-21. | Welty (and Sharp), The Norton Book of Friendship (1991): An anthology co-edited and with an introduction by Welty. | first printing | (F/F) | 10.00 |
16-22. | McHaney, ed., A Writer's Eye (1994): Collected book reviews. | one of 500 copies signed by Welty on the occasion of her 85th birthday. | (F/F) | 75.00 |
16-23. | Welty, "A Heading for August" in St. Nicholas, August 1920: This drawing was her first publication of any kind! | original | (F) | 60.00 |
16-24. | Welty, "Once Upon a Time" in St. Nicholas, November 1923: This poem was her first fiction publication outside of a high school paper. | original | (F) | 60.00 |
16-25. | Welty, "A Sketching Trip" in The Atlantic, June 1945 | original | (VG minus) | 12.00 |
16-26. | Welty, "Delta Wedding" in The Atlantic, Jan., Feb., March and April 1946: Pre-novel serialization complete in four parts. | all original | (all XL, VG) | 30.00 |
16-27. | Welty, Review of William Sansom's South, in Saturday Review, September 23, 1950 | original | (XL/D, edge rough where removed from bound volume, else VG) | 10.00 |
16-28. | Welty, "Circe" in Perspectives #13, Autumn 1955 Note: Also contains four poems by Penn Warren. | original | (F) | 10.00 |
16-29. | Welty, "Where Is the Voice Coming From?" in The New Yorker July 6, 1963 | original | (VG) | 15.00 |
16-30. | Welty, "Must the Novelist Crusade?" in The Atlantic, October 1965 | original | (F) | 10.00 |
16-31. | Welty, "From Where I Live" in The Delta Review, November/December, 1969 Note: Also contains a non-Welty article on "Faulkner, the Mule, and the South." | original | (F) | 15.00 |
16-32. | Welty, an interview in The Paris Review, Fall 1972 | original, signed by Welty | (F) | 50.00 |
16-33. | Welty, "Learning to See" in Vanity Fair, January 1984: A pre-publication excerpt from One Writer's Beginnings, with photos. | original | (only the 14 pages containing the story, in F condition) | 3.00 |
16-34. | Welty, an interview in Bloodroot, Spring 1979: A North Dakota periodical. | original | (F) | 8.00 |
16-35. | Welty, Reading From Her Works: A phonograph record with Welty reading the complete "Why I Live at the P.O."; "A Worn Path"; and "A Memory." | original edition | (XL, F/VG) | 30.00 |
16-36. | Welty, Videotape issued by the University of Mississippi of Welty at the 1987 Faulkner Conference reading "Why I Live at the P.O." | original | (XL, VG) | 40.00 |
16-37. | Welty, a 5 1/2" by 5 1/2" ad for RCA Victor Records clipped from a magazine, containing an attributed plug by Welty. | original | (F) | 3.00 |
16-38. | (Welty biography) Kreyling, Author and Agent (1991) | first printing | (VG/VG minus) | 8.00 |
16-39. | (Welty study) Devlin, ed., Welty: A Life In Literature (1987): A collection of critical essays. | first edition | (F/F) | 10.00 |
16-40. | (Welty study) Evans, Eudora Welty (1981) | 1986 first paperback edition | (F) | 8.00 |
16-41. | (Welty study) MacNeil, Eudora Welty - Seeing Black and White (1990): An essay of appreciation. | paperback original | (F/F) | 10.00 |
16-42. | (Welty study) Turner and Harding, eds., Critical Essays on Eudora Welty (1989) | first printing | (F/none, as issued) | 10.00 |
16-43. | (Welty study) Westling, Eudora Welty (1989): A critical study published in England. I do not believe that this has been published in the United States. | first printing | (F/F) | 10.00 |
16-44. | (Welty) Fields and Chodorov, The Ponder Heart (1956): The playscript. | Fireside Theater Book Club edition, with promotional flyer from the book club. | (F/VG) | 15.00 |
16-45. | program for the 1956 Broadway premiere of The Ponder Heart stage production | original | (F/VG) | 20.00 |
16-46. | program for the 1982 world premiere of a comic opera of The Ponder Heart | original | (F/VG) | 15.00 |
16-47. | (Welty) Marrs, The Welty Collection: A guide to the manuscripts and documents at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. | unknown hardbound edition | (sealed) | 15.00 |
16-48. | (Welty) Bibliographical list in American Book Collector, Jan./Feb. 1981 | original | (F) | 3.00 |
16-49. | (Welty) Reynolds Price, review of The Collected Stories, in The New Republic, November 1, 1980 | original | (only the two sheets containing the review, in VG condition) | 2.00 |