[Rarebooks] FS: Association Copy of Eudora Welty's THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM

[Charles Agvent]

WELTY,  Eudora.  THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM. Garden  City:  Doubleday,
Doran  1942. First Edition. Her first novel and second book. INSCRIBED
on  the  front  free endpaper by the author for  "Bean  Bergerson/on a
fine  visit in May/with all the best wishes + hopes" and SIGNED by her
on  26  May 1956. Baldwin "Bean" Bergerson was a pianist and  Broadway
composer  who  wrote the music for CARIB SONG in 1945 and THE  CRYSTAL
HEART  in  1960. Welty at the approximate time of the  inscription  in
this  book  still  had  hopes that Bergerson  and  his  companion  and
collaborator,  William  Archibald, would be interested  in  creating a
musical  from THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM, a project that never was realized
though  its  origins were as early as 1950. Certainly  a  presentation
copy  a  cut above the ordinary. Minor soiling to the  endpaper  below
the  inscription. Minor chipping to the spine tips of the  dustwrapper
which  is price-clipped, though the word "Price" is still present, and
which  has mild edgewear and darkening with a one-inch closed tear  at
the rear. Near Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper.               $4500.00

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