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Jackson and London: University Press of Mississippi, 1989. 1st Edition . Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Soft cover. 1st printing, 1989. Light wear. Firmly bound, tight and square. No spine crease. Clean, unmarked pages. Very Good condition.

The radiant world of Eudora Welty's art is charged by a poignant and familiar beauty, and here in a stunning book of her photographs is a dazzling record of this writer's unique and special vision.It is unusual--remarkable--for a major writer also to be an accomplished photographer. Eudora Welty is one of the very few whose great talent has been expressed in both photographs and fiction.This book brings together in one volume about 250 representative photographs from the few thousand that she took during the 1930s, '40s, and '50s. Although her camera's view finder compresses much, like the frame in which she conceives her fiction, it finds elements that convey her deep compassion and her artist's sensibilities.From the confines of her native Mississippi, these photographs unfold the world of Eudora Welty's art, reaching, extending, and exploring. In the Deep South of Depression times, when she began writing, she discovered the place into which she had been born and which would always be her subject. From here, as these photographs show, she approached and risked the outside world. From rural Mississippi to New Orleans, Charleston, New York City, and Yaddo, and then to Ireland, England, and the Continent, Welty widened her vision and expanded her art. These photographs reveal that both in her fiction and in the pictures she took it has always been in place, in the special qualities of what is local, that she found her impulse. "I was smitten by the identity of place wherever I was," she said in 1989, "from Mississippi on--I still am."The legions of appreciators of Welty's photographs see in them the feelings and vision that are the hallmarks of her great literary art in such novels as Losing Battles and The Optimist's Daughter, in her memoir One Writer's Beginnings, and in her volumes of short stories.This serves as a definitive book of Welty's photographs, compromising pictures from her personal collection, from the repository of Welty materials at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, and from One Time, One Place, an album of her Depression-era photographs published in 1971.Included are Mississippi scenes and people, emblems of folklife, carnival signs and performers, photographs taken in Charleston; New Orleans; Mexico; New York City; Ireland; Paris; Nice; Italy; Wales; and Saratoga Springs, New York, and a significant group of Welty's portraits of family members and friends.

Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 1989. First Paperback Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 226pp. Illustrated. Former owner's name/info is marked over with a black marker on the front (pictorial) flyleaf. Additional light general wear but overall a very good copy

This hard cover first edition/first printing with 226 photographs is tight and bright. The inside pages are pristine. e previous owner's book plate and gift inscription are on the fep along with a very tiny spot at the edge. The book is very good plus.

A large paperback in fine condition. 226 pages of the black and white picture taken by Eudora Welty. Introduction by Reyolds Price and an interview with Eudora Welty helps explain her work.

First printing. Full number line.

The radiant world of Eudora Welty's art is charged by a poignant and familiar beauty, and here in a stunning book of her photographs is a dazzling record of this writer's unique and special vision.It is unusual--remarkable--for a major writer also to be an accomplished photographer. Eudora Welty is one of the very few whose great talent has been expressed in both photographs and fiction.This book brings together in one volume about 250 representative photographs from the few thousand that she took during the 1930s, '40s, and '50s. Although her camera's view finder compresses much, like the frame in which she conceives her fiction, it finds elements that convey her deep compassion and her artist's sensibilities.From the confines of her native Mississippi, these photographs unfold the world of Eudora Welty's art, reaching, extending, and exploring. In the Deep South of Depression times, when she began writing, she discovered the place into which she had been born and which would always be her subject. From here, as these photographs show, she approached and risked the outside world. From rural Mississippi to New Orleans, Charleston, New York City, and Yaddo, and then to Ireland, England, and the Continent, Welty widened her vision and expanded her art. These photographs reveal that both in her fiction and in the pictures she took it has always been in place, in the special qualities of what is local, that she found her impulse. "I was smitten by the identity of place wherever I was," she said in 1989, "from Mississippi on--I still am."The legions of appreciators of Welty's photographs see in them the feelings and vision that are the hallmarks of her great literary art in such novels as Losing Battles and The Optimist's Daughter, in her memoir One Writer's Beginnings, and in her volumes of short stories.This serves as a definitive book of Welty's photographs, compromising pictures from her personal collection, from the repository of Welty materials at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, and from One Time, One Place, an album of her Depression-era photographs published in 1971.Included are Mississippi scenes and people, emblems of folklife, carnival signs and performers, photographs taken in Charleston; New Orleans; Mexico; New York City; Ireland; Paris; Nice; Italy; Wales; and Saratoga Springs, New York, and a significant group of Welty's portraits of family members and friends.

Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; DJ is worn at edges. DJ has light soiling; Foreword by Reynolds Price; B&W Photographs; Unpaginated pages

First edition, hardcover, has a slight lean to the binding, faint sunning to the spine and edges, and mild wear to the cover corners. Otherwise, this is a solid, clean, Very Good+ copy in a Very Good dust jacket, which has bumps with slight creasing to the spine ends and corners, rubbing with mild smudging to the covers, and faint sunning to the spine and edges. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar.

Oversized brick colored cloth, titled in silver to spine, lacking dust jacket. Signed inscribed and dated by Welty on the front free endpage "For XXX XXX, with best wishes, Eudora Welty 1991" no other markings. Richly illustrated with 226 photographs, many of which are full page plates. Uncommon signed.