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19311610045Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith 1931. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Signed limited edition this is number 30 of 299 signed by Faulkner. One of the smallest limitations of the Faulkner signed limiteds. Near fine condition in a handsome matching custom-made slipcase. Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith hardcover books
1932160223013New York: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. All points present: stated first printing correct first binding "Jefferson" on p. 340 jacket priced at $2.50. "Lee Christmas" variant front flap. 480 p. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. Very light foxing to cloth near top of front and back faintly to paste down. Jacket spine lightly sunned much less so than most copies small closed tear in top of front panel light wear to head. A very clean sharp copy of the acclaimed novel in a lovely jacket. Harrison Smith & Robert Haas hardcover books
19321508036Harrison Smith and Robert Haas 1932. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. A fine first edition in a very good slightly spine faded jacket. First Printing stated on copyright page. First issue with Jefferson not Mottstown. Owner's name written on front free endpaper. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Harrison Smith and Robert Haas hardcover books
193292744New York: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas 1932. First edition first issue with first printing statement on copyright page and "Jefferson" for "Mottstown" on page 340 line 1; first-issue binding lettered in blue and orange. Octavo original cloth. Fine in an excellent dust jacket with some light rubbing and wear. Petersen A13a; Howard A13.1a; Massey 103. A nice example. One of William Faulkners most admired and accessible novels Light in August reveals the great American author at the height of his powers. Lena Groves resolute search for the father of her unborn child begets a rich poignant and ultimately hopeful story of perseverance in the face of mortality. It also acquaints us with several of Faulkners most unforgettable characters including the Reverend Gail Hightower plagued by visions of Confederate horsemen and Joe Christmas a ragged itinerant soul obsessed with his mixed-race ancestry. Powerfully entwining these characters stories Light in August brings to life Faulkners imaginary South one of literatures great invented landscapes in all of its unerringly fascinating glory. "No man ever put more of his heart and soul into the written word than did William Faulkner. If you want to know all you can about that heart and soul the fiction where he put it is still right there" Eudora Welty. Harrison Smith & Robert Haas hardcover books
1935140940023New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas 1935. Signed Limited First Edition. Very Good. First edition. Limited edition signed by William Faulkner on rear colophon one of 300 numbered copies thus. 315 3 pp. with fold-out manuscript page at front. Silver foil boards backed in blue cloth title stamped in silver on spine and pictorial device stamped in blue on front board top edge gilt; housed in publisher's slipcase. A Very Good copy with slightly sunned and rubbed spine silver foil a bit rubbed with a tiny chip and a few tiny insect tracks to it on rear board. In a toned restored example of the publisher's slipcase lacking title label on spine; now sound and sturdy. A novel about hardscrabble stunt pilots in the American South that inspired the 1957 film Tarnished Angels. Harrison Smith and Robert Haas unknown books
1931160720006New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition first printing. Near Fine with a thin strip of toning to cloth at head of spine former owner bookplate to front paste down and verso of half-title page shows small tears at gutter in a Very Good dust jacket with publisher's price of $2.50 intact a 2-3/4" long hairline crack at the base of the front spine joint darkening to spine panel edge wear and light chipping with shallow loss at the spine ends. Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith hardcover books
1940Embry 116435Random House 1940. First edition first printing. Small bookseller's label to lower front free endpaper slight rubbing still fine in near fine unchipped dust jacket with some toning to rear panel and the slightest of darkening to spine panel in mylar cover. A handsome copy. Random House, 1940. First edition, first printing. unknown books
1938014464Random House 1938. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. Limited Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition Signed 1/250 # 46 Maroon Spine With Pattern Boards Fine Copy Gorgeous Fresh Copy. Random House Hardcover books
1930140937635New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith 1930. First Edition. Very Good. First edition first printing second issue with the "I" properly aligned on page 11. Very Good with darkening to cloth at gutters light partial reading crease to spine. Pages toned with an occasional small stain. In a Very Good dust jacket with publisher's price intact light edge wear and a partially removed tape ghost to the blank verso. A lovely copy. Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith unknown books
19312520New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith 1931. Limited Edition. Cloth. Near fine. Signed limited edition of These 13: Stories by William Faulkner. Octavo v 358pp. Publisher's brown cloth spine beige covers title in silver gilt on spine top edge silver gilt. Gray endpapers. Uncut edges. Touch of wear to top edge of spine. An almost imperceptible blemish to cloth on back panel. From a limited edition of 299 copies signed by the author this is number 266. Bruccoli & Clark I:122 Hamblin 398 Lacking the scarce tissue cover and slipcase. An outstanding example of this scarce limited edition from William Faulkner. This work is Faulkner's first volume of short fiction. It was originally titled "A Rose for Emily and Other Stories" but was renamed before publication in September of 1931. While positively reviewed by The New York Times it was considered uneven by some critics. This work includes a total of 13 short stories. In Part I: Victory Ad Astra All The Dead Pilots Crevasse. Part II: Red Leaves A Rose for Emily A Justice Hair That evening Sun Dry September. In Part III: Mistral Divorce In Naples Carcassonne. Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith unknown books
19321508032Harrison Smith and Robert Haas 1932. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. A fine first edition First Printing Stated on the copyright page in a very good dust jacket. First issue with "Jefferson" for "Mottstown" on page 340 line 1. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Harrison Smith and Robert Haas hardcover books
1929467New York: Harcourt Brace and Company Inc 1929. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/near fine. First edition of Sartoris by William Faulkner in first state dust jacket. Octavo 380pp black cloth red title on spine and front cover. Top edge red. Dust jacket in near fine condition chip on spine price clipped toning to spine unrestored. First edition points include: "1929" printed on copyright page. An excellent example in an unrestored dust jacket. The dust jacket for this book was produced by Arthur Hawkins Jr the notable book jacket illustrator and designer. Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc unknown books
1926108146Boni & Liveright 1926. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. A near fine first edition signed by William Faulkner on a slip of paper attached to the half title page. 1926 is written in roman numerals on the title page and no statement of later printings on the copyright page. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Boni & Liveright hardcover books
1929108038Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. A first edition one of only 1789 copies. First Edition 1929 stated on the copyright page. A near fine copy housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith hardcover books
1939WRCLIT55014New York: Random House 1939. Tan cloth ruled in green lettered in gilt. Small Grolier Book Shop label on front endsheet otherwise unusually fine in near fine dust jacket with a couple of minor tiny surface blemishes along the top edge at the spine crown. First edition trade issue primary binding. With poet/critic Dunstan Thompson's careful year of publication pencil ownership inscription on the free endsheet. PETERSEN A19b. MASSEY 388. Random House hardcover books
1931849New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith 1931. Hardcover. Very Good. Limited Edition. Number 23 of 299 copies SIGNED by Faulkner. Light soiling to boards still a nice tight copy of this great collection. Cloth. <br/><br/> Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith hardcover books
193217019New York: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas 1932. First Edition. Octavo 21cm; original tan coarse cloth boards. First binding lettered in blue and orange on spine and in orange on front cover; reddish-brown top-stain; dustjacket; 480pp. A Fine copy in the original unclipped jacket well-preserved but for two small clear tape repairs verso mild rubbing and fading to spine and rear panel; Very Good. Lacking the original unprinted glassine overlay. This appears to be a variant as noted in Ahearn APG with reddish-brown top-stain and sheets bulking to 1-3/16" versus 1-1/16" in most copies first noted by Pepper & Stern in 1994. The jacket also includes the unrecorded per APG variant "Lee Christmas" for "Joe Christmas" on front flap. A pretty copy free of restoration or sophistications and with less than the usual fading to the jacket spine. Harrison Smith & Robert Haas unknown books
195952461New York: Modern Library 1959. Modern Library Giant first edition thus. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper "To The Maracay Book Club / with gratitude and best wishes / William Faulkner / Caracas / 20 April 1961" and signed on the title page "William Faulkner / Maracay / 10 April 1961." During a State Department-sponsored trip to Venezuela in April 1961 Faulkner visited a book club in Maracay founded in his honor by fellow Mississippian Vivian Ray. According to Ray's son from whom the book was purchased Mr. Faulkner stayed with William and Victoria Fielden in Caracas who were responsible for arranging this "out of protocol" event. Old tape shadows to pastedowns and rear endpaper where card was removed; the book club's lending-library stamps on the dust jacket flaps have offset to the free endpapers affecting Faulkner's inscription which is nonetheless as legible as one could hope from Faulkner; otherwise would be about very good. In an edge worn but still good dust jacket with label on spine presumably from the lending library. INSCRIBED BY FAULKNER Modern Library unknown books
192995802New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1929. First edition of Faulkner's works set in Yoknapatawpha County and introduces many of the characters that appear in his later fiction. Octavo original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light toning to the spine. A very nice example. Sartoris portrays the decay of the Mississippi aristocracy following the social upheaval of the American Civil War. The 1929 edition is an abridged version of Faulkner's original work. The full text was published in 1973 as Flags in the Dust. Faulkner's great-grandfather William Clark Falkner himself a colonel in the American Civil War served as the model for Colonel John Sartoris. Faulkner also fashioned other characters in the book on local people from his hometown Oxford. Literary critic Cleanth Brooks described the novel as "extremely well-written" full of literary allusions and exploring the plight of a lost generation. He compared Sartoris to the poem The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot. Harcourt, Brace and Company hardcover books
19401501722Random House 1940. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. One of only 250 signed limited copies of the limited edition this is number 67. Fine condition in a custom-made collector's slipcase. One of the smallest limitations of the Faulkner signed limited editions. Random House hardcover books
19291904026Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo. iv 401 pp. Original quarter white cloth and black and white patterned paper boards backstrip lettered in black decorative endpapers that match the covers original pictorial dust-jacket fore-edge uncut. Book and dust-jacket heavily worn water stained jacket in pieces but largely present this is the first issue dust-jacket with "Humanity Uprooted" priced at $3.00 instead of the second state $3.50. Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith hardcover books
1932107290Harrison Smith and Robert Haas 1932. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A fine first edition in a near fine dust jacket with First Printing stated on the copyright page the original price of $2.50 still on the front flap of the dust jacket and the spine virtually unfaded which is unusual for this book. Comes in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Harrison Smith and Robert Haas hardcover books
19311086628vo. New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith 1931. 8vo. x 358 pp. title-page printed in black and red. Original quarter red cloth and silver-gray cloth lettering in silver to backstrip top-edge silver uncut with tissue dust-jacket as issued. Jacket has a few small chips otherwise a very fine copy. § First edition “special edition†of 299 copies of which this is number 128 signed by William Faulkner to the recto of the title-page. . This collection is dedicated to Faulkner’s wife and first daughter who died nine days after her birth. These 13 is no longer in print and includes the following short stories: “Victory†“Ad Astra†“All the Dead Pilots†“Crevasse†“Red Leaves†“A Rose for Emily†“A Justice†“Hair†“That Evening Sun†“Dry September†“Mistral†“Divorce in Naples†and “Carcassonne.†Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith hardcover books
4787Very Good. Autograph manuscript 8.5 x 11 inch blank leaf half page covered. While it is unclear to which if any of Faulkner's works this page might be linked it does seem rather early possibly from his New Orleans period. It reads in part: "I came to the center of the square and stopped and stood for a moment and let my eyes wander about -- wandering from the darkened store fronts to the center of the square where the marbled confederate soldier stood in strange whitened contrast to the shadowed of the deeply shaded court yard." A visually handsome page from Faulkner in his neat and tiny hand some lines crossed over in his determined manner. Manuscript pages from Faulkner such as this one have become quite uncommon on the market. <br/><br/> unknown books
4788Very Good. Autograph manuscript 8.5 x 11 inch blank leaf. The handwriting in this manuscript especially at times shows similarities to Faulkner's more calligraphic style as can be seen with The Marionettes and other early manuscripts. Primarily dialogue appears on this page with scattered corrections throughout. "You've flown over this route a hundred times" evokes Pylon but the exact use or lack of use of this page is unclear in spite of some effort. Hardly Faulkner at his best but still interesting and worthy of further study. A scarce if fragmented relic from Faulkner. <br/><br/> unknown books
