The Democratic Forest
New York: Doubleday, 1989. Oblong. 176 pages. Color photographs. Original cloth; dust jacket. First American edition, first printing, published the same year as the British edition.
New York: Doubleday, 1989. Oblong. 176 pages. Color photographs. Original cloth; dust jacket. First American edition, first printing, published the same year as the British edition.
Jackson, Miss. New Stage Theatre, [1980]. Tall 8vo. 20, [3] pp. Title printed in red and black. Original marbled boards, printed paper label on front cover; original plain paper wrapper (somewhat frayed). A fine copy. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, one of 400 copies signed by Welty from an edition of.....
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1949]. 8vo. 244pp. Original cloth-backed boards, gilt-lettered and decorated; pictorial dust jacket. A few tiny nicks at ends of spine panel, a near-fine copy, lightly toned but fresh and bright. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED by Welty on the half-title. Louis Untermeyer's copy, with his bookplate.....
New York: Random House, [1970]. 8vo. 436, [1] pp. Original green cloth, gilt-lettered; acetate wrapper; publisher's board slipcase with manuscript number matched to the volume. A fine copy. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED ISSUE, number 215 of 300 copies printed on special paper and specially bound and signed by Welty. Polk A16:1c.....
New York: Random House, [1970]. 8vo. 436, [1] pp. Original green cloth, gilt-lettered; printed dust jacket. A near-fine copy, sharp and bright. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Polk A16:1.
Jackson and London: University of Mississippi Press, 1989. Square 4to. Original cloth and slipcase. First edition of Welty's wonderful series of black-and-white photographs, number 147 of 375 copies signed by Welty (there were also 26 lettered and signed copies). Foreword by Reynolds Price.
West Hatfield, Mass. Pennyroyal Press, 1987. 8vo. Illustrated by Barry Moser. Original crimson morocco. Number 37 of 150 copies signed by Welty and Moser.