Eudora Welty: Writers' Reflections Upon First Reading Welty

First printing of the first edition, limited to 200 hand-numbered copies signed by the contributors, this being #175. Green silk cloth boards, lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, in publisher's cloth slipcase, no dust jacket, as issued. Published on the occasion of Welty's 90th birthday. Signed by the editor and each of the 22 contributors on 6 specially inserted leaves in the back (before the colophon): Richard Bausch, Doris Betts, Fred Chappell, Ellen Douglas, Tony Early, Clyde Edgerton, George Garrett, Ellen Gilchrist, Anthony Grooms, Barry Hannah, Mary Hood, Greg Johnson, William Maxwell, Willie Morris, Alice Munro, Daniele Pitavy-Souques, Reynolds Price, Louis D. Rubin, Jr., Lee Smith, William Jay Smith, Elizabeth Spencer, and Richard Wilbur. Faint toning to spine, else fine in fine slipcase.