Description
The first trade edition, first printing of The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty.
Octavo, [10], 3-180pp, [4]. Beige cloth, orange topstain, orange endpapers. Stated “First Edition” on copyright page with full Random House number line. In the publisher’s fine dust jacket, $5.95 retail price on front flap. Jacket design by Bob Giusti.
(Polk, A19:1b)
The first trade edition followed a limited edition of 300 copies published by Random House.
Welty’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, first published in The New Yorker in 1969 and revised for book publication in 1972.
