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WELTY, EUDORA. A Curtain of Green. 8vo, publisher's terra-cotta cloth stamped in white and green; dust jacket, spine panel darkened with small chip near head, ringstain to front panel, overall dust-soiling, $2.50 price intact; endpapers browned from binding glue. first edition of welty's first published work, signed and inscribed: "For Bill Starr / in appreciation of his interest in my work / Eudora Welty." Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1941
with-The Robber Bridegroom. 8vo, publisher's cloth, minor rubbing to extremities; price-clipped dust jacket, spine panel chipped at tips not touching letters, spine and rear panel darkened, few short closed tears, offsetting from pink cover stripe on verso as usual. First edition. Inscribed by her: "For Bean Bergerson / on a fine visit in May / with all the best wishes & hopes" on 26 May 1956. Baldwin "Bean" Bergerson was a pianist and Broadway composer. Welty at the approximate time of the inscription in this book still had hopes that Bergerson and his companion and collaborator, William Archibald, would be interested in creating a musical from this novel, a project that was never realized. NY, 1942.
