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EUDORA WELTY: PHOTOGRAPHS - SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR
(WELTY, EUDORA). Welty, Eudora. Foreword by Reynolds Price. Jackson, MI. 1989 (1990).: University Press of Mississippi. Second Printing. 4to. Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Photography Monograph. Near Fine/Fine. np (196pp), 252 duotone illustrations. Designed by Richard Hendel. "The radiant world of Eudora Welty's art is charged by a poignant and familiar beauty, and here in a stunning book of her photographs is a dazzling record of this writer's unique and special vision. These photographs reveal that both in her fiction and in the pictures she took, it has always been in the special qualities of what is local that she found her impulse. This serves as a definitive book of Welty's images, comprising pictures from her personal collection, from the repository of Welty materials at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, and from "One Time, One Place" - an album of her Depression-era photographs published in 1972. Included are Mississippi scenes and people, emblems of folklife, carnival signs and performers, photographs taken in Charleston, New Orleans, Mexico, New York City, Ireland, Paris, Nice, Italy, Wales, and Saratoga Springs, N.Y., and a significant group of Welty's portraits of family members and friends". A most handsome example of the 1990 second hardbound printing additionally bearing the SIGNED AND DATED PRESENTATION "To ... / Thank you for your interest and / confidence in Mississippi / and with best wishes, / Eudora Welty / April 9, 1992" in black ink on the front pastedown with a bookmark from Lemuria Books in Welty's hometown of Jackson, Mississippi - where it was presumably signed - laid in. 0-87805-450-2 Inventory Number: 025567