PBA Galleries

Seven, mostly first edition, volumes by Welty spanning her writing career, a few inscribed, others with laid in signed index cards.

Includes: 

• Short Stories. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949. Boards, glassine wrappers. One of 1,500 copies printed for the friends of the author and her publishers. (toning to a couple of pages due to laid in newspaper clipping).
• The Golden Apples.  Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949. Cloth-backed boards, jacket. (Fading to lettering on volume spine).
• The Ponder Heart. Brace and Company, 1954. Illustrated from drawings by Joe Krush. Cloth-backed boards, jacket. 
• The Bride of Innisfallen.  Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1954. Cloth-backed boards, jacket. 
• Losing Battles. Random House, [1970]. Green cloth lettered in silver, jacket. Inscribed by the author. (Grease pencil price on front flyleaf, paperclip crease on front free endpaper)
• The Optimist's Daughter. Random House, [1972]. Beige cloth lettered in gilt, jacket. First book edition. (Chip to jacket at front spine fold, some sunning to volume).
• One Writer's Beginnings. Harvard, 1984. Duotone cloth lettered in gilt, jacket. (Jacket creased at front flap).