A Curtain of Green.

WELTY, Eudora; Introduction by Katherine Ann Porter.

$1,250.00

Item Number: 2816

Garden City: Doubleday, 1941.

First edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication, “To Bobbie Sumner Cutler with many good wishes- and good luck Eudora Welty December, 1941.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some light wear to the extremities.

Eudora Welty won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize and was later awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She was also the first living author to have her works published by the Library of America. A Curtain of Green is her first collection of short stories. In it she examines Mississippi, her state of birth, through the eyes of its inhabitants, and contemplates a realistic view of the extant racial relations. She brings to A Curtain of Green her graceful writing and perspective that sees Mississippi as an often comical world of near magical wonder in its ability to remain mundane in light of its struggles.