8vo. Original teal cloth stamped in white and pink; top edges stained green; dust jacket (some light toning on rear panel, minor edgewear and soiling).

 

FIRST EDITION of Welty's popular second book. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY WELTY TO BARRY MOSER on the front free endpaper: “For Barry Moser, with warmest admiration stretching out of the past (1942) for your sensitive, beautiful, imaginative engravings of the 1987 Robber - and gratitude and affections, delight - Eudora Welty / Jackson, Mississippi / November 13, 1987.”

 

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WELTY, Eudora. The Robber Bridegroom. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1944. 8vo, original cloth; dust jacket (significant portion of lower spine and rear panel torn away, some other chipping). FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, INSCRIBED BY WELTY on the title: “For James S. Bloom / Eudora Welty.” Accompanied by a later American edition (no dust jacket); and an essay on Welty’s photography by Robert MacNeil, Jackson, Mississippi: University Press, 1990, 8vo, original wrappers.