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Delta Wedding
by Eudora Welty
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Bellevue, Kentucky, United States
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About This Item
8vo, grey buckram cloth boards, purple titles, delta country map endpapers, dark purple topstain, 247pp. Stated First Edition. Unclipped dust jacket (2.75) shows minimal shelf wear to edges, quarter loss to rear panel at spine edge, light toning and rubbing to panels and folds. Binding firm with clean text. Welty's full fledged novelistic debut, and often considered her best. A storied, polyphonic novel of family generations on the Mississippi Delta. A nice copy in mylar.
Synopsis
A vivid and charming portrait of a large southern family, the Fairchilds, who live on a plantation in the Mississippi delta. The story, set in 1923, is exquisitely woven from the ordinary events of family life, centered around the visit of a young relative, Laura McRaven, and the family’s preparations for her cousin Dabney’s wedding.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Heaven-Haven Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B-16
- Title
- Delta Wedding
- Author
- Eudora Welty
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- 1946
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Firsts; Southern Lit;
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About the Seller
Heaven-Haven Books
Biblio member since 2024
Bellevue, Kentucky
About Heaven-Haven Books
Est. 2020. Secondhand, rare & uncommon books, bought & sold. Our specialties include contemporary small press poetry, Southern & Appalachian literature, Kentuckiana, classical and modern philosophy, Catholicism and Christian theology.
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- Buckram
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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