WELTY, EUDORA. The Robber Bridegroom. 8vo, publisher's teal cloth stamped in white and pink, 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; darkening to endleaves from binders glue. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1942
first edition of welty's second book. inscribed and signed 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.
