THE BRIDE OF THE INNISFALLEN And Other Stories
by Welty, Eudora
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Middletown, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1955). First edition, second issue, with multiple copyright dates, copyright page tipped in and binding of blue-and-green mottled boards with green cloth spine and silver spine lettering. Tips very lightly rubbed, otherwise fine in fine, price-clipped dust jacket with small, inconspicuous closed tear to upper front flap fold. A bright copy.
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
- Quill & Brush (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 35584
- Title
- THE BRIDE OF THE INNISFALLEN And Other Stories
- Author
- Welty, Eudora
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (1955)
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