The Optimist's Daughter

Eudora Welty

Random House, 2002. Later (2002 random house 75th-anniversary edition) edition, first printing.

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, 1973

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Book: Near Fine
Jacket: VG+
Jacket note: The dust jacket grades VG+.
Our ref: RCB-4d2d8c102364

What we checked, and where to see itRCB-4d2d8c102364 · 9 photographs of this copy

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First edition: Random House, 1972, priced jacket, no anniversary colophon

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This copy states 'Originally published in 1972' and 'Random House, Inc., 2002 Edition'

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Title page and spine bear the 'Random House Seventy-Five Years' 75th-anniversary colophon

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Flap states it is set from the 1972 first edition and commemorates Random House's 75th anniversary

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Flap notes 'Eudora Welty died in 2001', impossible on a 1972 first

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Flaws, each one named

scuff / label residue, upper front panel of jacket

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light toning to jacket, especially flaps and spine

noted on the copy in hand

This copy

2002 Random House Edition

What a true first shows: Random House, New York, 1972 (first American edition); this copy is the 2002 Random House 75th-anniversary edition, not that first.

Photographs show the exact copy you will receive. Every flaw we found is listed above; if we missed one, the return is on us.