8vo. Publisher's blue cloth stamped in pink and white (toning and adhesive remnants on rear pastedown from removed newspaper clippings, minor browning to front pastedown); original pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped, some light creasing and chipping, cellotape and some offsetting from binding on verso). Provenance: Lenore (presentation inscription, see below). 

FIRST EDITION OF WELTY'S FIRST NOVEL.  PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY WELTY in the year of publication: "To Lenore -- Love and good luck from Eudora Welty November 1, 1942." Welty's first novel, a Southern folk tale set in Mississippi, incorporates aspects of the Cupid and Psyche myth.