EUDORA WELTY—One Writer's Beginnings—1984 Harvard—2nd Edition Hardcover—SIGNED For Sale

• For Your Consideration:• From 1984: A SIGNED HARDCOVER (First Edition, Second Printing) of:

• “ONE WRITER’S BEGINNINGS”
(Harvard University Press, 1984) (Hardcover, First Edition, Second Printing)

• BY EUDORA WELTY• SIGNING NOTE: The following dated inscription & signature appears, in black fountain-ink, on the Title Page: “For Sara B---- / Best wishes, EUDORA WELTY / April 11, 1997.” (Please see photos.)• “She is one of the great storytellers of the world.”
—LOS ANGELES TIMES

• “Impossible to overpraise.”

—SALMAN RUSHDIE

• ABOUT THIS TITLE:
• “It is all wonderful...The parts of the book that are about her family...are by turns hilarious and affecting. They are a kind of present...from MISS WELTY to her audience.”
—WILLIAM MAXWELL, THE NEW YORKER

• “A lesson, by one of our best writers, in how to look a life and see it as an art form. EUDORA WELTY shows us how close we all are to literature, if we only know it.”
—NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW• “Beguiling as autobiography and...profound and priceless as guidance for anyone who aspires to write serious fiction.... It may, at that, not be possible to convey to someone else that mysterious transfiguring gift by which dream, memory and experience become art. Yet, in these few pages, EUDORA WELTY seems to have followed the trail...to the richness of her maturity with a gracious and warming clarity.”
―LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEW• “A book of great sensitivity—as controlled and yet as aspiring as a lyric poem.”
—NEW STATESMEN

• “Will surely become a classic.”

—LIBRARY JOURNAL

• “This delightful book is crowded with exactly remembered townspeople, with objects and sounds recollected with preternatural clarity.”
—NEWSWEEK•“One might say her writing, spun out like the web of a ‘noiseless patient spider,’ is not about but of herself. At bottom, the beauty and astonishment of her fiction, as Emerson might say, is ‘all design.'’ For it is by design, by her calculated disclosures, that this storyteller makes HERSELF AND HER WRITING POWERFUL AND FREE.”
―DANIEL AARON,LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS

• ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
• “Pure as a tuning fork.”

—KATHERINE ANNE PORTER, ON EUDORA WELTY’S EAR FOR SPEECH• “MISS WELTY is a distinguished artist, something of a poet, an ironic, savage observer of the human comedy.”

—ORVILLE PRESCOTT, NEW YORK TIMES

•“One of the most gifted and interest short-story writers of our time.”
—KAY BOYLE

• “Humorous, piquant, graceful.”
—LOUIS D. RUBIN, JR., SEWANEE REVIEW

• “It is easy to praise EUDORA WELTY, but it is not so easy to analyze the elements in her work that make it so easy—and such a deep pleasure—to praise. To say that may, indeed, be the highest praise, for it implies that the work, at its best, is so fully created, so deeply realized, and formed with such apparent innocence that it offers only itself, in shining unity.”

—ROBERT PENN WARREN

• “I doubt that a better book about ‘the South’—one that more completely gets the feel of the particular texture of Southern life, and its special tone and pattern—has ever been written.”
—HAMILTON BASSO, THE NEW YORKER (ON WELTY’S “THE GOLDEN APPLES”)• “Not the least of MISS WELTY’s qualities is the fineness of her descriptive writing, her evocations of a gleaming fish, a bird, a battered house.… Most of the people you have met before, in real life or in books. It is the touch of a very real genius which gives them life and variety and meaning.”
—EUGENE ARMFIELD, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW• “One of America’s distinguished prose stylists.”

—NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE BOOK REVIEW

• “May be the best fiction ever written about jazz.”

—WHITNEY BALLIETT, THE NEW YORKER (ON WELTY’S “POWERHOUSE”)• “There is hardly an American writer…whose motives are so pure and whose fiction rings so consistently with the sounds of real and felt life.”
—COLUMBUS DISPATCH• “The full import of WELTY’s enormously influential work is perhaps apparent only now….”
—MARY PARK

• “Comparable, for depth and breadth, not with other American novels but with larger things—THE TEMPEST, THE WINTER’S TALE, WAR AND PEACE.”
—REYNOLDS PRICE (ON WELTY’S “LOSING BATTLES”)• “A novel of infinite comic detail, of inexhaustible invention, of triumphant spirit.”
—GUY DAVENPORT (ON WELTY’S “LOSING BATTLES”)

• “Perhaps the most discreetly eminent of the 20th-century's great American writers. In spite of the countless accolades and awards her work garnered, both in the United States and abroad, she remained a regional writer, whose quietly magnificent short stories and novels are suffused with CHEKHOVIAN wit and clear-sightedness.”

—CLAIRE MESSAUD

• “But EUDORA WELTY loved to talk, not because she was full of herself, but because she found everything so interesting. She talked to that crowd the way she would have talked to friends in her living room. She wasn’t overly homespun, the way some Southern writers put on more of a drawl and act more hickish as soon as they get in front of an audience, but there was something down-to-earth about her just the same. REYNOLDS [PRICE] once told me there is a whole army of cultivated older Southern women who have read abso­lutely everything, and EUDORA was their brigadier general. She was obviously the most substantial artist on that stage, but was also—somewhat to my surprise—the most intelligent person. She dominated the afternoon, and by about halfway through I was completely relaxed. The panel was a huge success.”
—DAVID GUY, THE AMERICAN SCHOLAR (ON INTERVIEWING, BEFORE AN AUDIENCE, REYNOLDS PRICE, ANNE TYLER, & EUDORA WELTY)

• “The first thing you learn about EUDORA WELTY is that one of the most admired of living writers hasn’t learned to be a grande dame.”

—NEW YORK TIMES (INTERVIEW, 1970)• “How we did adore and envy them, the idols of our college years—HEMINGWAY and FAULKNER, FROST and ELIOT, MARY McCARTHY and FLANNERY O’CONNOR and EUDORA WELTY! We imagined them aswim in a heavenly refulgence, as joyful and immutable in their exalted condition as angels forever singing.”

—JOHN UPDIKE

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TITLE: “ONE WRITER’S BEGINNINGS”AUTHOR: EUDORA WELTY

IILUSTRATED: WITH BLACK-AND-WHITE PHOTOSTYPE: HARDCOVER

PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: Harvard University Press (Cambridge, Massachusetts), 1984

EDITION: First Edition, Second Printing*

NOTE: This copy is NEITHER Ex-Library nor a Book-of-the-Month-Club edition.

PAGES: 104

ISBN: 0-674-63925-1

CONDITION OF BOOK: GOOD.
(NO DUST JACKET.) Book is firm & square, though the fore edge of the back cover is slightly bowed (turned upwards). Boards are bright & clean with sharp corners. Corners are sharp. Spine is tight & uncreased. Spine tips are fine. Front endpapers are fine; back endpapers have a 2 light specks; & light glue seepage from the gutter. We counted 8 pages whose text is lighter—printer’s glitch—than other pages but still legible. Five (5) pages have inked marginalia (brackets or a check mark) in the margin—none of which affect the text. (Please see photos.) And one of the pages is dog-eared. Other than that, the pages are all bright & clean—with no writing (other than the 5 pages mentioned), no underlining, no foxing, no staining, no tears/rips, no foul odor, etc.

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