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  • Welty, Eudora.
    ONE WRITER'S BEGINNINGS.

    Edition: Paperback.

    New York: Warner, (1985.). A revised version of three lectures (entitled Listening, Learning to See and Finding a Voice) delivered at Harvard in 1983; includes an account of growing up in the South in the early 20th century, and how it affected her as a writer. Photographs. 114 pp. ISBN: 0-446-343013.

    Condition: Very good.

    Book ID: 41548
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  • THE OPTIMIST'S DAUGHTER. by Welty, Eudora.
    Welty, Eudora.
    THE OPTIMIST'S DAUGHTER.

    Edition: First edition.

    New York: Random House, (1972.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A seemingly slight story of a young woman who returns from Chicago to her childhood home in Mississippi after the death of her father, and in doing so, she confronts parts of her past and comes to a better understanding of herself - but a story imbued with Welty's artistry. A Pulitzer prize winning novel. 180 pp. ISBN: 0-394-480171.

    Condition: Very good in a good dust jacket (lower edge of front board slightly bumped, some staining to the dj).

    Book ID: 57245
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  • Welty, Eudora.
    MORGANA: Two Stories from 'The Golden Apples.'

    Edition: 2nd printing.

    Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1988. dj. Hardcover - A beautifully produced edition of these two stories ('June Recital 'and 'Moon Lake'), illustrated with full page drawings by Mildred Nungester Wolfe and with a new afterword by Welty. Slightly oversized format (11in by 8 1/2 in), 151 pages. Bound in blue cloth covered boards. ISBN: 0-87805-4006.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder mark, donation stamp to edge of textblock)

    Book ID: 31544
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  • Welty, Eudora.
    THIRTEEN STORIES.

    Edition: Trade paperback.

    New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1965.). Selected and with an introduction by Ruth M. Vande Kieft. Cover illustration by Barry Moser. ISBN: 0-15-689969-8.

    Condition: Very good condition.

    Book ID: 30792
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  • Welty, Eudora.
    THE OPTIMIST'S DAUGHTER.

    Edition: Trade paperback.

    New York: Vintage Books, (1990.). Pulitzer prize winning novel, originally published in 1972. ISBN: 0-679-72883x.

    Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 30864
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  • Welty, Eudora.
    ONE WRITER'S BEGINNINGS.

    Edition: Later printing.

    Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984. dj. Hardcover - A revised version of three lectures (entitled Listening, Learning to See and Finding a Voice) delivered at Harvard in 1983; includes an account of growing up in the South in the early 20th century, and how it affected her as a writer. Photographs. 103 pages. ISBN: 0-674-639251.

    Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket (prev owner's name, small binding flaw on front pastedown with a piece of tape on it, price-clipped dj.)

    Book ID: 18870
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  • MORGANA: Two Stories from 'The Golden Apples.' by Welty, Eudora.
    Welty, Eudora.
    MORGANA: Two Stories from 'The Golden Apples.'

    Edition: 2nd printing.

    Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1988. dj. Hardcover - A beautifully produced edition of these two stories ('June Recital 'and 'Moon Lake'), illustrated with full page drawings by Mildred Nungester Wolfe and with a new afterword by Welty. Slightly oversized format (11in by 8 1/2 in), 151 pages. Bound in blue cloth covered boards. ISBN: 0-87805-4006.

    Condition: Fine in very near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 18902
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  • Welty, Eudora.
    ONE WRITER'S BEGINNINGS.

    Edition: First trade edition.

    Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984. dj. Hardcover first edition - A revised version of three lectures (entitled Listening, Learning to See and Finding a Voice) delivered at Harvard in 1983; includes an account of growing up in the South in the early 20th century, and how it affected her as a writer. Photographs. 103 pages. While it has gone through many printings, this had a rather small first printing in the trade edition. ISBN: 0-674-639251.

    Condition: Near fine in very good+ dust jacket (embossed seal of prev owner, short tear at upper edge of back cover with associated creasing )

    Book ID: 19287
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  • Welty, Eudora.
    THE EYE OF THE STORY: Selected Essays and Reviews.

    Edition: First trade edition.

    New York: Random House, 1978, dj. Hardcover first edition -. ISBN: 0-394-425065.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder mark.)

    Book ID: 24759
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  • Welty, Eudora.
    THE EYE OF THE STORY: Selected Essays and Reviews.

    Edition: First trade edition.

    New York: Random House, 1978, dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of Welty's rather infrequent non-fiction writings, including several essays on writing fiction, commentaries on writers ranging from Jane Austen to Willa Cather and Virginia Woolf, from E. M. Forster to William Faulkner, and on miscellaneous subjects like childhood reading and Mississippi cookery. 355 pp. ISBN: 0-394-425065.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 24760
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  • Welty, Eudora.
    THE EYE OF THE STORY: Selected Essays and Reviews.

    Edition: First trade edition.

    New York: Random House, 1978, dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of Welty's rather infrequent non-fiction writings, including several essays on writing fiction, commentaries on writers ranging from Jane Austen to Willa Cather and Virginia Woolf, from E. M. Forster to William Faulkner, and on miscellaneous subjects like childhood reading and Mississippi cookery. 355 pp. ISBN: 0-394-425065.

    Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a very good+ unmarked dustjacket.

    Book ID: 24761
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  • Welty, Eudora.
    DELTA WEDDING.

    Edition: 2nd printing.

    New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1946. dj. Hardcover - Novel set in Mississippi in the 1920's.

    Condition: A flawed copy with water stains to the lower corner of the dustjacket and part of the textblock, some spine slant, and significant edgewear to the dj, fading on the spine of the dj - but still an uncommon early printing of this hard-to-find book.

    Book ID: 15675
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  • Welty, Eudora.
    THIRTEEN STORIES.

    Edition: Trade paperback.

    New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1965.). Selected and with an introduction by Ruth M. Vande Kieft. Cover illustration by Barry Moser. ISBN: 0-15-689969-8.

    Condition: Near fine.

    Book ID: 16170
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  • Welty, Eudora.
    LOSING BATTLES.

    Edition: BOMC edition.

    New York: Random House, 1970. dj. Hardcover - Novel set in Mississippi in the 1930's. (note: although this book has a price on the dj and no indication on the dj of being a book club selection, it doeshave the blind embossed mark used by the BOMC and the code 0152 at the bottom of the dj spine.)

    Condition: Very good in a very good dustjacket.

    Book ID: 16194
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  • Welty, Eudora.
    LOSING BATTLES.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Random House, 1970. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in Mississippi in the 1930's.

    Condition: Very good in a very good dustjacket (a little wear to the dj, especially at the ends of the spine and fading to the orange lettering on the spine, as is common to almost all copies of this book.)

    Book ID: 16378
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  • Welty, Eudora.
    LOSING BATTLES.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Random House, 1970. dj. Hardcover first edition - Novel set in Mississippi in the 1930's.

    Condition: Very good+ in a very good+ dustjacket (initials on front endpaper, fading to the orange lettering on the spine, as is common to almost all copies of this book..)

    Book ID: 16379
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  • THE NORTON BOOK OF FRIENDSHIP. by Welty, Eudora and Ronald A. Sharp, editors.
    Welty, Eudora and Ronald A. Sharp, editors.
    THE NORTON BOOK OF FRIENDSHIP.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: W. W. Norton & Company, (1991) dj. Hardcover first edition - An anthology containing 270 selected stories, legends, poems, essays, letters, and memoirs which reveal some of the world's classic friendships - from famous literary friendships such as those between H. L. Mencken and James Joyce, Gustave Flaubert and Ivan Turgenev, and Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore to Frederick Douglass's meditation on friendship and slavery to Elie Wiesel on friendship and the Holocaust. Includes a list of the authors, index. 622 pp. ISBN: 0-393030652.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 86294
    Keywords: Anthology
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  • (Welty, Eudora; Carson McCullers, Kay Boyle and others) Brickell, Herschell, Editor.
    O. HENRY MEMORIAL AWARD PRIZE STORIES OF 1943.

    Edition: Early printing.

    Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1943. Hardcover - The Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition of this influential anthology. Includes stories by Eudora Welty (first prize for 'Livvie is Back'), the second year in a row that Welty won the first prize; Dorothy Canfield (second prize for 'The Knot Hole'), Pearl Buck, Kay Boyle, Josephine Johnson and others. Introduction by Herschell Brickell. Appendix. 319 pp.

    Condition: Fair condition only in black boards - rubbing to edges, usual toning to pages, but a tight and sturdy copy, no dj.

    Book ID: 84219
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  • LOOK UP AND HOPE! The Motto of the Volunteer Prison League: The Life of Maud Ballington Booth. by Welty, Susan F.
    Welty, Susan F.
    LOOK UP AND HOPE! The Motto of the Volunteer Prison League: The Life of Maud Ballington Booth.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons, (1961) dj. SIGNED photograph, hardcover first edition - A biography by a family friend of Maud Ballington Booth (1865-1948), a pioneering social worker and reformer, co-founder with her husband General Ballington Booth of the Volunteers of America. As the title indicates, this focuses on Booth's work for prison reform and to help former prisoners adjust to the world outside. Frontispiece portrait. Laid in is a small snapshot of a pile of these books, with a friendly typed note on the verso, and SIGNED by the author, Susan Welty. Sources, index. 284 pp.

    Condition: Near fine in blue cloth in a good only dust jacket with some overall edgewear.

    Book ID: 87604
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  • THE BIRTH AND DEATH OF THE MIRACLE MAN: A Collection of Short Stories. by Wendt, Albert.
    Wendt, Albert.
    THE BIRTH AND DEATH OF THE MIRACLE MAN: A Collection of Short Stories.

    Edition: First UK printing.

    London: Viking, (1986) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of 12 stories by this award winning Samoan writer, which offer a portrait of the fascinating and complex world of Samoa - and also, they reflect the experiences of people everywhere. 176 pp. ISBN: 0-670806765.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (remainder line)

    Book ID: 84474
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  • THE GIRL IN THE CELLAR. by Wentworth, Patricia (pseudonym of Dora Amy Elles Dillon Turnbull, 1878-1961.)
    Wentworth, Patricia (pseudonym of Dora Amy Elles Dillon Turnbull, 1878-1961.)
    THE GIRL IN THE CELLAR.

    Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.

    New York: HarperPerennial, (1992). A classic Miss Silver mystery, originally published in 1961. 272 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0974451.

    Condition: Very good (usual light toning to the pages)

    Book ID: 72813
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  • THE CATHERINE WHEEL. by Wentworth, Patricia (pseudonym of Dora Amy Elles Dillon Turnbull, 1878-1961.)
    Wentworth, Patricia (pseudonym of Dora Amy Elles Dillon Turnbull, 1878-1961.)
    THE CATHERINE WHEEL.

    Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.

    New York: HarperPerennial, (1991). A classic Miss Silver mystery, originally published in 1949. 279 pp. ISBN: 0-06-0974419.

    Condition: Good overall (usual light toning to the pages, crease on front cover)

    Book ID: 72814
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  • Wentworth, Patricia (pseudonym of Dora Amy Elles Dillon Turnbull, 1878-1961.).
    POISON IN THE PEN

    Edition: Pocket paperback.

    New York: Bantam, 1985. A Miss Silver mystery.

    Condition: Near very good (single crease on spine.)

    Book ID: 12361
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  • EMPIRE OF THE ANTS. by Werber, Bernard,
    Werber, Bernard,
    EMPIRE OF THE ANTS.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Bantam, (1996) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Unique, daring, and unforgettable, it tellls the story of an ordinary family who accidentally threaten the security of a hidden civilization as intelligent as our own--a colony of ants determined to survive at any cost." One review called this "a marvel of warped imagination and offbeat suspense." Translated from the French by Margaret Rocques. Glossary. 262 pp. ISBN: 0-553-096133.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 58439
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  • WALT DISNEY'S VANISHING PRAIRIE: A True-Life Adventure. by Werner, Jane and the staff of the Walt Disney Studio.
    Werner, Jane and the staff of the Walt Disney Studio.
    WALT DISNEY'S VANISHING PRAIRIE: A True-Life Adventure.

    Edition: Early printing.

    New York: Simon & Schuster, (1955) dj. Hardcover - Based on the Film Narration by James Algar, Winston Hibler, and Ted Sears. Foreword by Walt Disney. Illustrated throughout with color photographs. Glossary, index. 124 pp. Illustrated endpapers.

    Condition: Near fine in green illustrated boards with a gray cloth spine, in a good dust jacket (overall chipping and edgewear to the dj, original price of $2.95 still present).

    Book ID: 75357
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  • LET ME FALL BEFORE I FLY by Wersba, Barbara (illustrated by Mercer Mayer.)
    Wersba, Barbara (illustrated by Mercer Mayer.)
    LET ME FALL BEFORE I FLY

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Atheneum, 1971. dj. Hardcover first edition - A child sees a circus with miniature performers under a tree, and this world becomes more important to him than anything else in his life. Frontispiece and dust jacket cover by Mercer Mayer. 31 pp.

    Condition: Very near fine in a near fine dustjacket.

    Book ID: 80131
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  • A PROUD PEOPLE: Black Americans. by Werstein, Irving.
    Werstein, Irving.
    A PROUD PEOPLE: Black Americans.

    Edition: 2nd printing.

    New York & Philadelphia: M. Evans / Lippincott, (1970) dj. Hardcover - A look at the achievements of Black Americans going back to the early 1600s when the first ship bearing slaves arrived. Illustrated with photographs by Bob Adelman. Bibliography, index. 192 pp.

    Condition: Ex-library with relatively few markings, but front endpaper removed, peeled endpapers where brodart had been pasted down in a very good dustjacket with a spine label. Surprisingly uncommon.

    Book ID: 80218
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  • Wertheimer, Barbara M. & Anne H. Nelson.
    TRADE UNION WOMEN: A Study of Their Participation in New York City Locals.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Praeger, 1975. dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes bibliographical references and index. 179 pages. ISBN: 0-275-058506.

    Condition: Near fine in olive green boards, no dj as issued.

    Book ID: 21453
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  • THE HEAD OF ALVISE. by Wertmuller, Lina.
    Wertmuller, Lina.
    THE HEAD OF ALVISE.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: William H. Morrow, 1982. dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this acclaimed and controversial film director. The story of two men, opposites in almost every way, whose lives and fate become entwined from their first meeting as young boys in Venice in 1939 through a Polish concentration camp (they are both Jewish), escape and a flight across Europe - to America where they meet again after 40 years. 252 pp. ISBN: 0-688011241.

    Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 75671
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  • TENEMENTS, TOWERS & TRASH: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City. by Wertz, Julia.
    Wertz, Julia.
    TENEMENTS, TOWERS & TRASH: An Unconventional Illustrated History of New York City.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, (2017). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Not just unconventional, this is a unique and very enjoyable book, Named a Notable Book of 2017 by the New York Times, which described it as "A passionate anatomy of the city, a book of dramatic streetscapes and hidden histories - mostly of infamous women, like the 19th-century celebrity abortionist Madame Restell, who catered to socialites and built her Fifth Avenue mansion a block away from a Catholic church, supposedly to taunt the faithful....The city rises majestically in these pages. The crowded panels evoke the jostle of urban life. Your eye doesn't know where to settle; there's so much to absorb." Reviewer Roz Chast comments that…

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    New York: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, (2017). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Not just unconventional, this is a unique and very enjoyable book, Named a Notable Book of 2017 by the New York Times, which described it as "A passionate anatomy of the city, a book of dramatic streetscapes and hidden histories - mostly of infamous women, like the 19th-century celebrity abortionist Madame Restell, who catered to socialites and built her Fifth Avenue mansion a block away from a Catholic church, supposedly to taunt the faithful....The city rises majestically in these pages. The crowded panels evoke the jostle of urban life. Your eye doesn't know where to settle; there's so much to absorb." Reviewer Roz Chast comments that "The meticulously researched histories of the various urban landscapes are fascinating, and Wertz's drawings perfectly capture the visual poetry of the city - the ongoing struggle between past and present, and its unique blend of beauty and ugliness. A must for anyone who loves and appreciates the city, as Wertz so clearly does." Illustrations on every page. Boldly SIGNED on the front endpaper with a self-portrait of the author/illustrator. Includes a list of recommended readings. A large, heavy book, unpaginated. ISBN: 978-0316501217.

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    Condition: Fine in illustrated boards.

    Book ID: 81548
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