Women!! Make Turban in Own Home!
[Winston-Salem, North Carolina]: Palaemon Press Limited, (1979). Octavo, measuring 8.5 x 5.5 inches: 16. Original green paper boards lettered in black, yellow endpapers. Title page printed in green and black, two halftone illustrations in text. Numbered in pencil and signed in ink at colophon. Bookplate of Ray Roberts to front pastedown.
Signed limited edition of Welty's wry account of her childhood fascination with Popular Mechanics, originally published in the November 1941 issue of Junior League Magazine. “Nothing was ever let alone in Popular Mechanics. Nothing ever got old in the course of time or fell to pieces. . . . throughout my childhood, I was a constant mental handy man. I could have fixed anything and if I had ever wanted to, I could have made anything. I could have changed everything in the household into something else if I had wanted to, just like a witch." Number xxxii of 35 copies for private distribution, in addition to 200 copies for sale. This copy contains the bookplate of Welty's longtime friend and sometime agent, Ray Roberts, best remembered as the editor of Thomas Pynchon. A bright fine copy, one of 35 hors commerce, with excellent literary provenance.
Price: $350.00