[Rarebooks] FS: Signed Limited Welty account of performance by African-American women in a 1930s Southern Baptist Church

[Charles Agvent]

 From our new catalogue of 137 items, nearly all recent acquisitions, by EUDORA 
WELTY and TENNESSEE WILLIAMS now posted on our web site.

WELTY,  Eudora.  A PAGEANT OF BIRDS. New York:  Albondocani  Press
1974.  First Edition. Pictorial dustwrapper (reproducing a  photograph
by  Eudora  Welty  on the front and rear covers) sewn  over  unprinted
black  wraps.  Copy #219 of 300 (of a total edition of 326) SIGNED  by
the  author  on the limitation page. Welty's account of a "Pageant  of
Birds,"  a  performance by African-American women in the 1930s at  the
Farish  Street Baptist Church in Jackson, Mississippi. Six of  Welty's
photographs  of  the event are reproduced including two for the  first
time. Fine in Fine dustwrapper.                                $350.00

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