Description
The signed limited first edition of Place in Fiction by Eudora Welty, the first appearance of this work in book form.
Small octavo. Unpaginated. Brown cloth, title in gilt on spine and front cover. Appears unread. Includes the publisher’s glassine dust jacket, short closed tear along top edge, else fine. Number 13 in the publisher’s “Crown Octavo” series.
From a limited edition of 300 copies, this being number 8, signed by Welty on the limitation page.
(Polk A12.1)
Originally prepared as a lecture for the Conference on American Studies at Cambridge University in 1954, the essay first appeared in The Archive in 1955 and South Atlantic Quarterly in 1956, before its first separate publication by House of Books in 1957.
