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Audience: General/trade. 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. light shelfwear, no ownership marks, first printing, NO PRIORITY SHIPPING DUE TO WEIGHT

Brand: University Press of Mississippi, 1989-11-01. First Edition. hardcover. Used: Good. 9.75x1.25x10.50. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy.

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.

Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi. 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. 0878054502 . 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/first printing. Square spine, clean crisp pages, no writing or marks, no folded page corners. Dust jacket is clean with no rips or creases. Not a remainder. Not a book club printing. No expedited shipping due to size.

First edition first printing hardback, 1989, with unclipped jacket. In overall very good used condition with only minor signs of age, handling and storage - dust jacket a touch rubbed; boards clean and crisp. Binding tight and appears little read. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions - retains the publishers request for a review slip loosely inserted; toning to upper page-ends but text and illustrations bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book.

First printing (per publisher's number line upon copyright page). xxviii, [174] pages. Hardcover: H 26cm x L 23.5cm. Dust jacket rubbed with some soiling and light scratches. Maroon cloth with vibrant silver stamping to spine. Slight foxing and soiling to text block edges. Light foxing/toning to endpapers. Interior pages are clean. Binding is firm. A very good+ copy in a very good dust jacket. With frontispiece and Foreword titled "THE ONLY NEWS" by Reynolds Price at pages vii-xii. Introductory essay on pages xiii-xxviii features the transcript of an interview with Eudora Welty regarding her photography. Unpaginated interior leaves feature 226 b/w plates. {Bibliographical reference: Noel Polk "Eudora Welty; A Bibliography of her Work" #A36.} Description copyright David Hallinan, Bookseller. Please note that this large book has an approximate shipping weight of 3.75 pounds (1.7 kg) and may require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail. {Photo-Shelf|C#10} ISBN 0878054502

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. Illustrated. Small quarto. Fine in fine dust jacket.

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.