The Optimist's Daughter Eudora Welty 2002 Random House 75th-anniversary edition

The Optimist's Daughter — Eudora Welty
Random House, 2002. Later (2002 random house 75th-anniversary edition) edition, first printing.

Condition: Near Fine/VG+ (just short of new — minor shelf presence).
The dust jacket grades VG+.
Noted flaws, plainly:
• scuff / label residue, upper front panel of jacket
• light toning to jacket, especially flaps and spine
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Printing points, checked on this copy:
• First edition: Random House, 1972, priced jacket, no anniversary colophon
• This copy states 'Originally published in 1972' and 'Random House, Inc., 2002 Edition'
• Title page and spine bear the 'Random House Seventy-Five Years' 75th-anniversary colophon
• Flap states it is set from the 1972 first edition and commemorates Random House's 75th anniversary
• Flap notes 'Eudora Welty died in 2001', impossible on a 1972 first

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