Losing battles
By: Eudora Welty
Contributors: Ahern, Mary M., book designer; Fleming, Guy, wood cutter; Random House (Firm); Book Press (Brattleboro, Vt.); Iola S. Haverstick Collection
Edition: [Limited] first edition
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1970
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 436
Subjects: Family reunions; Fiction; Grandmothers; Older women; Domestic fiction
Description: A Southern novel about two families who have a reunion to celebrate Grandma's ninetieth birthday.
Notes: Book design by Mary M. Ahern

Woodcut 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"--recto of additional leaf (pages [3-4]) inserted between "Books by Eudora Welty" and half title of standard first edition

Issued in slipcase

Rare Book copy: No. 153.

Gift; Iola S. Haverstick; 2002.