New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half-title page - "For Vincent Liotta with admiration and best wishes Eudora Welty June 26, 1981". Third Printing, copyright page letter line starts with "D". Very Good, edges of page block lightly soiled, a few pages bottom corner curled, in a Very Good dustjacket, with a few small chips and edge tears, mostly at flap folds and spine extremities. A nice ASSOCIATION COPY, Welty's short novel ''The Ponder Heart" was made into a comic opera in 1982. Vincent Liotta is professor of music in Opera Studies at the IU Jacobs School of Music. Liotta is co-founder of the Utah Festival Opera and a former faculty member of University of Nebraska at Omaha and University of Washington in Seattle. He stage directed productions at the Chicago Lyric Opera, San Francisco Opera, and Houston Grand Opera; for world premieres of Coyote Tales, a new version of Frank Loesser’s Greenwillow, and for the American premiere of Dragon of Wantley. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Third Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Association Copy.

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This collection includes all forty-one of Eudora Welty's published stories, as well as a preface written for this book by Ms. Welty herself. Some selections included in this book: "A Piece of News" "The Hitch-Hikers" "A Curtain of Green" "Death of a Traveling Salesman" "Powerhouse" "The Wide Net" "The Winds" "At the Landing" "No Place for You, My Love" "The Burning" (if this and "At the Landing" don't dispel the image of Eudora Welty as the harmless little Southern lady, nothing ever will) "The Bride of the Innisfallen" "Ladies in Spring" "Where Is the Voice Coming From?" "The Demonstrators"

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Bookseller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 004422
Title: Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
Author: Welty, Eudora
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: Third Printing
ISBN 10: 0151189943
ISBN 13: 9780151189946
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1980
Bookseller catalogs: Literature; Women Authors;

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