Signed book: The Optimist's Daughter. First edition. NY: Random House, 1972. Hardcover with dust jacket, 5.75 x 8.5, 180 pages. Signed on the half-title page in black ink, "For Matthew James Stiller, with my best wishes, Eudora Welty, March, 1989." In fine condition. First published as a long story in The New Yorker in March 1969, The Optimist's Daughter was subsequently revised and published in book form in 1972. The following year, the short novel earned Welty a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction-winning.
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