[Rarebooks] FS: Fine Presentation Copy of Eudora Welty's THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced to $1500 NET

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. (#010510) $4,500.00


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