Eudora Welty on William Faulkner
[Jackson]: University Press of Mississippi, (2003). Square volume, measuring 8 x 8 inches: 96. Olive green paper boards, brown paper spine lettered in green foil, olive green endpapers. Hand-numbered on limitation page, illustrated with photographs throughout text. Bookplate of Ray Roberts to front pastedown. Housed in original orange cloth slipcase with mounted photograph of Eudora Welty.
Limited first edition of Eudora Welty’s private and public writings on fellow Mississippian William Faulkner, number 39 of 150 hand-numbered copies. Contents include a caricature of Faulkner drawn by Welty in the 1930s, a 1949 letter to The New Yorker taking issue with Edmund Wilson’s condescending review of Intruder in the Dust, Welty’s account of her first encounters with Faulkner in Oxford, and various book reviews, speeches, and tributes: “He went out on every limb, I believe, that he knew was there.” This copy contains the bookplate of Welty’s longtime friend and sometime agent, Ray Roberts, best remembered as the editor of Thomas Pynchon. A fine copy, with excellent literary provenance.
Price: $200.00