Section XVI: Eudora Welty



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 1945original(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, 1950original(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 1965original(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 1972original, 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 productionoriginal (F/VG)20.00
16-46.program for the 1982 world premiere of a comic opera of The Ponder Heartoriginal (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. 1981original(F)3.00
16-49.(Welty) Reynolds Price, review of The Collected Stories, in The New Republic, November 1, 1980original (only the two sheets containing the review, in VG condition)2.00


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