The Eye of the Story; Selected Essays & Reviews

New York: Random House, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Presentation copy inscribed by Welty to emeritus professor at Emory University Floyd Watkins and his wife Anne. Very Good in a Fine jacket, unclipped ($10.00). Quarter green cloth with green paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, a stain at the top and bottom edges near the spine, clean internally. A collection of Welty's nonfiction pieces, spanning from literary criticism on the likes of Chekhov, Austen, Forster, Cather, Porter, Faulkner, Woolf, and others, to fairy tales, folklore, and Mississippi cooking.