1 / 2
Click To Zoom

Condition Report

Contact Information

Lot 349

Own a similar item?
Estimate
$200 - 300
Price Realized
$378
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium

Lot Description

WELTY, Eudora (1909-2001). Delta Wedding. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1946. 


8vo. Publisher's gray cloth stamped in purple; original dust jacket (very slight rubbing to front flap fold and spine panel, otherwise bright). Provenance: Stuart [Wright?] (presentation inscription, see below). 

FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY WELTY: "To Stuart from Eudora with best wishes." A pencilled note indicates that "Stuart" was Welty's "small press publisher," presumably Stuart Wright. Wright started the Palaemon Press in Winston-Salem North Carolina, which printed limited editions of the works of Eudora Welty and other Southern writers.


Property from the Collection of Robert S. Brown, Cincinnati, Ohio

Condition Report

Contact Information

Search