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The Optimist's Daughter
by Welty, Eudora
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- as new
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
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About This Item
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1980. Hardcover. As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Howard Rogers. Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1980. Limited Edition, and Signed by author Eudora Welty on the third free endpaper, with tissue guard. Accompanied by the scarce original 22-page "Notes From the Editors" pamphlet (see scan). Specially-commissioned illustrations by Howard Rogers. As New, pristine; never read - nor handled, except to scan and store. Ribbon bookmark is, in fact, still in its original position. See scans. Octavo, 194 pp.; full rich deep red leather, gilt decorated and imprinted, spine panels rib divided, All Edges Gilt, wine red silk moire endpapers with matching red satin page-marker ribbon. The gilt is 22k, and the paper is custom-made 70-pound Franklin Library Classic Vellum, the typeface 11-point Janson. Franklin's as-always lavish binding, here for Welty's 1972 Pulitzer Prize-winning tale of southern family relationships. The Franklin Library, doing what they did best. Handsomely preserved. Please review scans. With the author's 1980 "A Special Message to Subscribers from Eudora Welty" (prefacing the novel) - at 7 pages one of the longer such messages in this limited edition series - and the scarce, separate original 22-page "Notes From the Editors", in pristine condition as well. A collector's example. Please review scans. L-franklin2
Synopsis
Eudora Welty was born in Jackson, Mis-sissippi, in 1909. She was educated locally and at Mississippi State College for Women, the University of Wisconsin, and the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. Her short stories appeared in The Southern Review, Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s Bazaar, The New Yorker, and other magazines. She lectured at a number of colleges, held the William Allan Neilson professorship at Smith and the Lucy Donnelly Fellowship at Bryn Mawr, and was a lecturer at the Conference of American Studies at Cambridge University. She worked under grants from the Rockefeller and Merrill foundations and the National Institute of Arts and Letters, and held a Guggenheim Fellow-ship. She was given honorary degrees from Smith, the University of Wisconsin, Western College for Women, Denison University, the University of the South at Sewanee, and Millsaps College in Jackson. She also received the M. Carey Thomas Award from Bryn Mawr, the Brandeis Medal of Achievement, and the Hollins Medal; her novel The Ponder Heart was awarded the Howells Medal for Fiction by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Eudora Welty died in 2001. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Singularity Rare & Fine
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001524
- Title
- The Optimist's Daughter
- Author
- Welty, Eudora
- Illustrator
- Howard Rogers
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Franklin Library
- Place of Publication
- Franklin Center, PA
- Date Published
- 1980
- Pages
- 194
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- fiction classic historical southern Autographs, Literary, Classics
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classics of Fiction From All Eras;
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