WELTY, Eudora.
The Optimist's Daughter.
New York: Random House , 1972.
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First Edition of The Optimist's Daughter; Signed by Eudora Welty and Finely Bound The Harcourt Bindery
First edition of this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Boldly signed by Eudora Welty on a page bound in. In fine condition. An exceptional example.
Eudora Welty won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize and was later awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She was also the first living author to have her works published by the Library of America. The Optimist’s Daughter (1972) by Eudora Welty is a Pulitzer Prize–winning novel that explores themes of grief, memory, and personal reconciliation through the experience of Laurel McKelva Hand, a widowed woman who returns from Chicago to the South after her father’s final illness. As Laurel navigates the tensions created by her father’s death and her strained relationship with his younger, self-centered second wife, Fay, she is drawn into a deeper reflection on her family’s past.
The Optimist's Daughter.
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