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Losing battles / Eudora Welty
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel 6610
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Family reunions--Fiction.
- Family reunions.
- Grandmothers--Fiction.
- Grandmothers.
- Older women--Fiction.
- Older women.
- Mississippi--Fiction.
- Mississippi.
- Domestic fiction.
- Genre:
- Domestic fiction.
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001 (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [12], 436, [2] pages : map ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- [Limited] first edition
- Manufacture:
- Brattleboro, Vermont : The Book Press, [1970]
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Random House, [1970]
- Summary:
- A Southern novel about two families who have a reunion to celebrate Grandma's ninetieth birthday.
- Notes:
- Book design by Mary M. Ahern
- Woodcut decoration by Guy Fleming
- "Of the first edition of Losing Battles three hundred copies have been printed on special paper & specially bound. Each copy is signed by the author and numbered [blank]"--Recto of additional leaf (pages [3-4]) inserted between "Books by Eudora Welty" and half title of standard first edition.
- Issued in slipcase.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy is number 163 of a limited edtion of 300 copies printed on special paper, specially bound, and signed by the author. See limitation statement.
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy: slipcase retained.
- OCLC:
- 1306445198
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