First printing of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's first collection of short stories, introduced by Katherine Anne Porter.
Near fine in very good jacket.
Price: $600.00
"He covered his heart with both hands to keep anyone from hearing the noise it made."
A CURTAIN OF GREEN includes Welty's first-published and most famous story, "Death of a Traveling Salesman," as well as the much-anthologized "A Worn Path" and fifteen other stories "where external act and the internal voiceless life of the imagination almost meet and mingle on the mysterious threshold between dream and waking" (Porter). An attractive copy.
First edition (stated). Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1941. 8'' x 5.5''. Original orange cloth stamped in white and green. In original unclipped ($2.50) dust jacket. 285, [1] pages. Light edgewear to boards, offsetting to endpapers. Scuffing and minor chipping to jacket edges, faint soil to rear panel, a few small closed tears with tape repairs to verso. Sunning to spine. Overall, sound.
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