[Rarebooks] FS: Signed First of Eudora Welty's First Book: A CURTAIN OF GREEN

[Charles Agvent]

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WELTY, Eudora. A CURTAIN OF GREEN. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & 
Company, 1941. First Edition. Welty's first book, a collection of 
stories issued in an edition of only 2476 copies. With an introduction 
by Katherine Anne Porter. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the 
front endpaper "in appreciation of his interest in my work." Dustwrapper 
complete but for a tiny chip at the top rear fold near the spine. A few 
small rubbed spots at the rear and a faint cup ring on the front panel; 
the spine as always the case is sunned but here the lettering is still 
clear. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper.               $4,000.00

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