Welty, Eudora:

$1,000 · Offered by William Reese Company

A CURTAIN OF GREEN AND OTHER STORIES. First Harcourt edition, the text reset from Welty's copy of the British edition. Appropriately inscribed by Welty on the front free endsheet to Lambert Davis of Harcourt: "For Lambert Davis with pleasure & pride in the new dress - 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. This new edition was undertaken at his instigation. Review copies of this new edition were sent out on April 14, formal publication took place on May 1, and the first printing consisted of 2500 copies. Porter's Introduction was reprinted in this edition, although not noted on the titlepage.

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