The Bride Of The Innisfallen And Other Stories
by Welty, Eudora
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+ in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Dunedin, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About This Item
London: Hamish Hamilton. Good+ in Good dust jacket. (1955). First Edition. Hardcover. Some dampstains and dye-run to margins of endpapers and dust-jacket. Some foxing. Front flap of dust-jacket is clipped, but still showing price of "12s. 6d. net". Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; First UK edition. 190, [2 (blank)] pages. Blue boards with silver lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 185 x 119mm. A collection of short stories. American author. "Since 1941, when her first volume, 'A Curtain of Green,' was greeted with much praise, Eudora Welty has been writing some of the finest short stories to appear in our time." - from dust-jacket blurb.; 190 .
Synopsis
This collection combines stories set in Welty's special province, the rural South, with stories having a European locale. This gives a wider range to her fiction and demonstrates the remarkable talent of one of the finest short-story writers of our time. "Humorous, piquant, graceful" (Louis D. Rubin, Jr., Sewanee Review).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Renaissance Books (NZ)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4069
- Title
- The Bride Of The Innisfallen And Other Stories
- Author
- Welty, Eudora
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1955)
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Renaissance Books
Biblio member since 2005
Dunedin, New Zealand
About Renaissance Books
We are located in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand. We have in stock over 8,500 books. We are a general antiquarian and out-of-print home-based bookseller, with some specialty areas in English literature, Maori, Travel, Tibet, and New Zealand history.
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