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1936157086New York: Random House 1936. First trade edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. 384 p. 21 cm. Fold-out map at rear. Black cloth with pink bands gold print. In mylar-covered dustjacket. Top edge red. Moderate wear to jacket edges. Some marks to cloth. Hinges cracking internally. Ink inscription on front endpaper. <br/><br/>Faulkner's story of dynastic decay in the post-Civil War South. Contains what was once the longest sentence in published literature beginning on p. 181 and ending on p. 184. A major contributor to his winning of the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature. Random House hardcover
193023530New York:: Jonathan Cape: Harrison Smith 1930. First edition first issue of text and binding. original buff cloth in dust jacket. Near fine in a jacket with a shallow chip at the top of the spine affecting no printing and a light coin-sized dampstain at the bottom of the spine. 12mo. Jonathan Cape: Harrison Smith, hardcover
1931WF100New York: Random House 1931 First edition first printing. One of 400 copies signed and numbered by the author this being number 22. Additionally inscribed on title page: "William Faulkner / Los Angeles Cali / 23 April 1936". Publisher's original red marbled paper-covered boards white label to front board with feather design and titles in black uncut pages; original glassine wrapper. Very good book with some toning to boards some wear and splitting to paper on spine tiny black spot to front board bookseller's ticket to rear pastedown; glassine wrapper with some shallow chipping and small closed tears to edges. A very nice copy overall scarce in the original glassine and additionally inscribed by the author. Idyll in the Desert set in southwest Arizona tells the passionate story of a woman who leaves her husband and two children to be with a younger man. Faulkner would later include a similar love triangle in his novel The Wild Palms 1939. Faulkner wrote the short story around the same time as two of his early masterpieces As I Lay Dying 1930 and Sanctuary 1931. Best known for his Yoknapatawpha cycle Faulkner also wrote numerous short stories and screenplays throughout his career. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1949. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Dust Jacket Included. New York: Random House hardcover
1931229089New York Random House 1931. 1931. First edition so stated. 8vo. Original marbled boards with printed label on the upper cover. Original glassine jacket. Fine and fresh copy. Enclosed in a full maroon morocco drop box cover ruled in gilt and spine with five raised bands ruled in gilt with gilt stamped lettering. No other signatures or bookplates. Number 164 of 400 copies signed by Faulkner on the colophon page. Signed by Authors. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. New York, Random House, 1931. hardcover
19323285The Book Club of Texas 1932. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Copy #202 of a total of 300 copies. Near fine lacking the rare tissue wrapper. This copy has been inscribed by Faulkner on its title page: "William Faulkner. Los Angeles Cal. 23 April 1936." Only 300 copies of this unsigned limited edition were printed and inscribed copies are quite scarce. The story was written in 1928 and in terms of subject matter is similar to "Dry September" and "A Rose for Emily." <br/><br/> The Book Club of Texas hardcover
192750856New York: Boni and Liveright 1927. Fine in very good plus jacket. First edition of Faulkner's Huxleyesque satire on sex swamps artists and boats - featuring an ungenerous portrayal of Sherwood Anderson as "Dawson Fairchild the novelist resembling a benevolent walrus." Faulkner's second novel took the then-fashionable form of stranding a small group of reprehensible sophisticates in intolerable circumstances and forcing them to have arch conversations with one another until rescue arrived or the book ended whichever came first. Though rarely ranked among the author's greatest works MOSQUITOES "owes its messiness more to uncertain intention and undisciplined exuberance than to ignorance spite or vacuity" Yamaguchi. An attractive copy. 7.25'' x 5.25''. Original blue cloth with yellow lettering. Decorative blue endpapers. In original price-clipped red and green dust jacket. 349 1 pages. Minor scuffing and a few tiny chips to jacket spine toned. Light edgewear to boards. Interior clean. Boni and Liveright unknown
1927787New York: Boni and Liveright 1927. First Edition. The Nobel Laureate’s 2nd novel. 8vo. Fine none of the typical flaking to the yellow lettering in the first printing dustjacket there is a 2nd printing “cardplayers†jacket some rubbing and a 3/8†tear else near fine. Cheaper than any copy close to this fine and finer than any copy close to this cheap. Set aboard a yacht on Lake Pontchartrain over four days the novel assembles a party of New Orleans artists writers dilettantes and socialites whose endless boozy self-regarding talk amounts to very little—which is precisely Faulkner's point. A satire of the Vieux Carré literary scene he had recently inhabited Mosquitoes is the last book Faulkner wrote before discovering Yoknapatawpha County and the voice that would carry him through The Sound and the Fury As I Lay Dying and the great novels that followed. It is apprentice work by a genius on the verge. Boni and Liveright unknown
196069844Waco Texas:: Baylor University January 8 1960. Fine; a few minor turned corners. 14 x 8-1/2 inches. The play was produced as "Journey to Jefferson" adapted by Robert Flynn. Signed by William Faulkner and initialed by him four times in the margins. Baylor University, unknown
195569840Burbank July 20 1955. Fine. 11 x 8-1/2 inches. Accompanied the three pages of the film script containing the scene in which Faulkner is named and quoted from. The finished film was directed by Mervyn Le Roy and starred William Holden Lloyd Nolan and James Garner in a drama set among the world of U.S. Air Force test pilots. unknown
195869858New York March 1 1958. stapled into a Dramatist's Guild printed cover. Fine. 14 x 8-1/2 inches. Signed by William Faulkner and initialed three timed by him in the margins. Faulkner wrote "requiem for a Nun" specifically for his actress friend and fellow Mississipian Ruth Ford. unknown
196069847Los Angeles:: Twentieth Century-Fox 1960. stapled into blue wrappers. Fine. 11 x 8-1/2 inches. In 1958 Twentieth Century-Fox produced the acclaimed motion picture version "The Long Hot Summer" starring Paul Newman Joanne Woodward Orson Welles Tony Franciosa Lee Remick and Angela Lansbury; directed by Martin Ritt. Twentieth Century-Fox, unknown
195569841New York:: CBS Television May 31 1955. Fine. 11 x 8-1/2 inches. Signed by William Faulkner and initialed once by him in the margin. Faulkner's story title was changed to "Wild Stallion" when it appeared on the series Climax and starred Mary Astor Kathleen Crowley Roy Glenn Wilton Graff as Faulkner's famous character Gavin Stevens Paul Henreid and Richard Long. CBS Television, unknown
195213974JNew York: 1 page quarto April 11 1952. Original Typed Letter Signed from Harold Ober to William Faulkner asking for changes in the commencement date of payments by Lemuel Ayers for his intended play production of “Requiem For a Nun.†Signed by William Faulkner at the bottom agreeing to the changes and countered by Lemuel Ayers. Faulkner wrote “Requiem For a Nun†specifically for his actress friend and fellow Mississippian Ruth Ford. In turn Ford spent the next eight years attempting to mount a production of the play on Broadway production which she did not succeed at doing until 1959. During this process Lemuel Ayers eventually bowed out as producer and was replaced. 1 page, quarto unknown
194613969JNew York: 2 pages quarto September 21 1946. Original Typed Document Signed by William Faulkner – Supplementary Contract Between Cagney Productions and William Faulkner purchasing the film rights to Faulkner’s short story – “Two Soldiers.†James Cagney purchased the rights to produce a motion picture version of “Two Soldiers†as a vehicle for himself but it was never produced. 2 pages, quarto unknown
196013978JNew York: 7 pages quarto April 5 1960. Original Typed Document Signed by William Faulkner – Contract between Samuel French Inc. and William Faulkner giving French the right to license stock and amateur acting rights for play productions of “Requiem For a Nun.†7 pages, quarto unknown
196013979JNew York: 2 pages quarto October 2 1960. Original Typed Document Signed by William Faulkner – Contract between Hughes Massie & Company of London and William Faulkner for the British play production of “Requiem For a Nun.†Signed by William Faulkner and initialed once by him in the margin. 2 pages, quarto unknown
193279298Milwaukee:: The Casanova Press 1932. First edition; No. 87 of 525 copies; ordinary issue. original printed wrappers in publisher's slipcase. An absolutely beautiful copy. 8vo. This copy miraculously includes the publisher's slip stamped with the copy number as a partial wraparound band; and laid in is the publisher's announcement/order form printed in red and black. The Casanova Press, unknown
1931138101New York: Johnathan Cape & Harrison Smith 1931. First edition of the novel that established Faulkner's literary reputation. Octavo original half cloth pictorial endpapers. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with some professional restoration. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Set in Faulkner's fictional Yoknapatawpha County Mississippi in the summer of 1929 Sanctuary is a story of murder rape and abduction; widely considered Faulkner's most controversial work and the novel responsible for his breakthrough as one of the most talented writers of the 20th century. "It is one of the most terrifying books I have ever read. And it is one of the most extraordinary" - Edwin Seaver. Johnathan Cape & Harrison Smith hardcover
193191796New York: Johnathan Cape & Harrison Smith 1931. First edition of the novel that established Faulkner's literary reputation. Octavo original half cloth pictorial endpapers. From the library of Virginia bibliophile and historian Christopher Clark Geest with his bookplate. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco chemise and clamshell box. A very sharp example. Set in Faulkner's fictional Yoknapatawpha County Mississippi in the summer of 1929 Sanctuary is a story of murder rape and abduction; widely considered Faulkner's most controversial work and the novel responsible for his breakthrough as one of the most talented writers of the 20th century. "It is one of the most terrifying books I have ever read. And it is one of the most extraordinary" - Edwin Seaver. Johnathan Cape & Harrison Smith hardcover
195610939Athens TN: Ingleside Motel 1956. Very good. FAULKNER William. Signed Registration Card for a Hotel Stay in Athens TN in 1956. Post-card sized registration card filled out in ink. Athens TN: Ingleside Motel 1956. Faulkner has written his full name along with "Oxford Miss" as his home and in the "Make of Car" field he has written: "Plymouth." The card is dated in pencil presumably by a hotel clerk "5/9/56" with a written rate of $6.00 the total with tax amounting to $6.18. Accompanying the registration card is a picture postcard of the "New Ingleside Motel" in Athens TN which was "completed in 1954"; the postcard is postmarked 1958; the implication is that this is where Faulkner may have stayed. In April 1956 Faulkner had travelled to Charlottesville with his wife Estelle to be with their daughter and her husband as they were expecting the birth of a son. During the early months of 1956 Faulkner had been hospitalized a few times with the side-effects of alcoholism and from Charlottesville had gone on to New York to consult a Dr. Ben Gilbert whom he knew there. During one of his visits to Dr. Gilbert Faulkner remarked regarding his drinking: "Never ask me why. I don't know the answer. If I did I wouldn't do it." - Joseph Blotner Faulkner: A Biography NY: Random House 1984 p. 621. Faulkner's daughter Jill gave birth to a boy on April 15 1956 and on May 8th Faulkner left Charlottesville for his home in Oxford Mississippi. In terms of driving time Athens TN is more or less equidistant between Charlottesville and Oxford and in 1956 the drive would have taken considerably longer than it would today. There is an Ingleside Motel in Athens now but it doesn't appear to be the same motel where Faulkner stayed its website noting that it has only been in service since 2019; it is possible the original motel was razed to construct the new one. In any case someone believed with some degree of plausibility that the New Ingleside Motel may have been where Faulkner spent the night of May 9th 1956. The registration card was framed at some point and is sunned on the front with some offsetting from a matt on the back; otherwise it is in good condition. [Ingleside Motel?] unknown
1929147479New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith 1929. First edition of Faulkner’s masterpiece. Octavo original cloth black and white patterned paper boards. In near fine condition. Petersen A6.2a. Brucolli & Clark I:121. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase. An exceptional example. Although The Sound and The Fury is now considered one of top one hundred novels of the 20th century it actually wasn’t initially received well upon publication. This was mostly due to the fact that at the time Faulkner wasn’t well-known as a novelist although this was his fourth published work. Because he had not had much commercial success with his first few novels it is believed that the publisher limited the initial printing run to 1789 copies. It wasn’t until his novel Sanctuary was published in 1931 that he started being really noticed as a writer and more people started giving The Sound and The Fury more serious attention. The title of the book comes from the famous soliloquy of act 5 scene 5 of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Faulkner literally takes Shakespeare’s words and writes a "tale told by an idiot"… in this case from the point of view of the members of the Compson family who are former Mississippi aristocrats who fall into financial trouble and over a 30 year period many of whom die tragically in one way or another…. Or as Shakespeare put it… “the way to dusty deathâ€. Faulkner used a stream of consciousness method conceived by other novelists such as James Joyce and Virginia Wolf. Although this narrative style and lack of regard for sentence structure can often alienate new readers it is considered a masterpiece by literary critics and scholars and played a large role in Faulkner’s receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949. Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith hardcover
193812528JNew York: Random House 1938. First Edition. Review copy with the publisher’s printed and dated notice and photograph of the author laid in. The notice gives publisher price and date of publication February 15 1938 as well as a description of the book. “.Straight reading from Faulkner - in one of the finest books he has yet written. It covers the later days of the Civil War when the Yankees destroyed the plantation but not the spirit of the indomitable Sartoris family in Mississippi. Many of the chapters appeared originally in magazines but Faulkner has largely rewritten them and this record of the valiant Sartorises is now a continuous narrative packed with war romance humor and above all courage. Illustrations by Edward Shenton.†The photograph of Faulkner is one of the classic 1930s images of the man and in the white margin beneath reads: “WILLIAM FAULKNER - One of America’s top ranking authors whose new book THE UNVANQUISHED deals with the Civil War Random House.†The book is a fine tight copy in a lightly used dust jacket with a two inch tear a faint bit of dust soiling at spine and a couple of tiny nicks. Random House unknown
193112777New York: Jonathan Cape 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near fine/none. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed limited #204/289. No dust jacket as issued metallic top stain a little scuffing. Toning to boards. Housed in custom clamshell box. Jonathan Cape hardcover
109996New York Harrison Smith & Robert Haas 1932. . First edition first issue with 'Jefferson' for 'Mottstown' on p340 line 1; 8vo; publisher's tan cloth titles to upper board in orange and to spine in blue orange topstain. With the magnificent art deco dust-jacket. A very nice copy in the slightly sunned and very lightly nicked dust-jacket.<br /> A superb copy of a novel that contrasts stark tragedy with hopeful perseverance in the face of mortality; featuring some of Faulkner's most memorable characters: guileless dauntless Lena Grove in search of the father of her unborn child; Reverend Gail Hightower a lonely outcast haunted by visions of Confederate glory; as well as Joe Christmas a desperate enigmatic drifter consumed by his mixed ancestry.<br /> Petersen A13a. New York, Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, 1932. hardcover
192902SOU001<p>First edition and first printing of the author's favourite of his own works: "It's a real son-of-a-bitch. This one's the greatest I'll ever write" quoted in Churchwell. This is Faulkner's fourth novel and the second set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha Country Mississippi.</p><p>Good to very good condition. Original bookcloth and black and white patterned paper boards. Backstrip is lettered in black. Decorative endpapers match the covers - these are split on the front and rear as shown in the photos. Loose front hinge but holding together well. Lightly worn at corners as well as headband and tailband. First title page holds an ex libris bookplate. Otherwise there are no added markings. No dust jacket.</p> Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith hardcover
