"EMPTY HOUSE, EMPTY HOTEL, MIGHT AS WELL BE AN EMPTY TOWN…"
WELTY, Eudora. The Ponder Heart. New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1954). Octavo, original half tan cloth, original dust jacket.
First edition of , inscribed, "For Zylphia Parke, Eudora Welty."
Welty's tragicomic novella was first published in The New Yorker a year earlier. It was turned into a Broadway play in 1956, winning a Tony award for Una Merkel as Best Actress.
A fine copy.