New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1947. New Edition. Hardcover. Welty, Eudora. A CURTAIN OF GREEN And Other Stories. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1947]. New Edition, or First Harcourt edition, the text reset from the British edition. Apparently 2,500 copies were printed. Includes Katharine Anne Porter's introduction (noted on the front cover of the dustjacket and in the Table of Contents). Small 8vo. Black cloth, gilt letters on spine, green stain to top edges of text block. Book in near fine condition (lower edges rubbed), no owner's name, small bookseller sticker on rear pastedown (Laurel Book Service). Dustjacket lightly worn and soiled, price of $3.00 intact, tiny chip in one fold, rear flap mentions Delta Wedding as published in 1946. xxiii,289 pages. Polk A2:3. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 289 pages .

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This title is the first collection of Eudora Welty’s stories, originally published in 1941. It includes such classics as “A Worn Path,” “Petrified Man,” “Why I Live at the P.O.,” and “Death of a Traveling Salesman.”

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Bookseller: Dale A. Sorenson (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 465
Title: A Curtain Of Green And Other Stories
Author: Welty, Eudora
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Edition: New Edition
Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & Company
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1947
Keywords: Southern Literature, American Literature, Fiction

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