Welty, Eudora:

$1,000 · Offered by William Reese Company · No longer available

THE WIDE NET AND OTHER STORIES. Second printing of the first edition (one of 1000 copies printed to coincide with the 1 May publication of Harcourt's edition of A Curtain of Green). Inscribed by Welty on the front free endsheet to Lambert Davis of Harcourt: "For Lambert Davis with good regards and wishes, Eudora Welty April, 1947." Davis, previously the editor of the Virginia Quarterly (1937-8), served as one of Welty's editors until he left Harcourt in 1948 to head the University of North Carolina Press. He retired in 1970.

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