[Photobook] One Time, One Place: Mississippi in the Depression, A Snapshot Album [Signed] de WELTY, Eudora (1909-2001) - 1971

New York: Random House, 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine+/Fine. First printing, trade issue (a limited edition was also published), inscribed, signed, and dated on fly leaf by Welty in month of publication. Square 8vo: xiv,111,[3]pp, illustrated with 102 of Welty's photographs. Publisher's mid-brown fine bead cloth, stamped on front cover in black and in bronze on spine, mid-brown end papers; photographically illustrated dust jacket, priced $7.95. Spine slightly canted, light shelf wear, else Near Fine or better in Fine jacket. Polk A18:1b. In 1931, after graduating college, Welty returned to Jackson, where a few years later she joined the WPA, part of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Traveling through Mississippi opened her eyes to the misery of the Great Depression, and resulted in this series of photographs, eventually published as One Time, One Place. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).