Signed limited edition of Welty's biographical sketch of a Jackson midwife and secondhand clothes dealer, originally published in ACCENT 2 in 1942.
Fine.
Price: $250.00
"She is full of all the wild humors and extravagances of the godlike toward this entire town and its environs."
Welty's essay, accompanied by her own photographs of her subject, is "not a short story. It is better than that" (Shattuck). Her portrait of a semi-divine "cross between a transcendentalist and a witch" is bookended by a facsimile of M'Toy's letter, affirming her reality and her pleasure in seeing her life story printed after having "wore [her] life out in Jackson Miss." A beautiful copy.
Read more: McHaney, A Tyrannous Eye: Eudora Welty's Nonfiction and Photographs.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, (1979). 9.75'' x 7.5''. Original gilt-stamped scarlet cloth. Unpaginated. Illustrated with two black and white photographs by Welty. Text followed by facsimile reproduction of M'Toy's correspondence. Edition of 350 copies, this copy no. 88. Signed by Welty at colophon.
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