The shelf · The Optimist's Daughter
2002 Random House Edition
The Optimist's Daughter
Eudora Welty
Random House, 2002. Later (2002 random house 75th-anniversary edition) edition, first printing.
$30One copy · this copy
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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
examined on the copy in hand
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This copy states 'Originally published in 1972' and 'Random House, Inc., 2002 Edition'
examined on the copy in hand
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Title page and spine bear the 'Random House Seventy-Five Years' 75th-anniversary colophon
examined on the copy in hand
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Flap states it is set from the 1972 first edition and commemorates Random House's 75th anniversary
examined on the copy in hand
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Flap notes 'Eudora Welty died in 2001', impossible on a 1972 first
examined on the copy in hand
Flaws, each one named
1
scuff / label residue, upper front panel of jacket
noted on the copy in hand
2
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.