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1926WRCLIT28301New Orleans: The Pelican Bookshop Press 1926. Green paper over boards off-white label printed in black. Careful repairs to spine utilizing the original backstrip a few small nicks at edges typical rubbing at edges and head and toe of spine otherwise a very good copy internally fine. First edition. One of one hundred and fifty copies constituting the second "issue" from a total edition in a single printing of four hundred copies. The sole distinction between the two "issues" is the placement of a printed label over the regular limitation statement proclaiming it the second "issue." PETERSEN A3. The Pelican Bookshop Press hardcover books
193113230New York: Random House 1931. Limited Edition. Boards. Near fine. Signed limited edition of Idyll in the Desert by William Faulkner. Octavo 17pp 1. Red marbled paper boards title in black on label affixed to front cover. Solid text block light sunning to spine a touch of wear to corners. A near fine example. Peterson A10.a Signed by the author on limitation page this copy being number 312 of 400. William Faulkner 1897-1962 was a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author recognized for A Fable in 1955 and The Reivers in 1963. The Sound and the Fury As I Lay Dying and Light in August were recognized by The Modern Library on their 1998 list of 100 Best English-language Novels of the 20th Century. Faulkner primarily set his stories in the American South many of which took place in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County. Random House unknown
193830033New York:: Random House 1938. First edition. publishers cloth in dust jacket. Just about fine in a very nice jacket with one small chip to the top of the spine affecting the W in William.. 8vo. Random House, hardcover
193916240New York: Random House 1939. Limited Edition. Cloth. Near fine. Signed limited edition of The Wild Palms by William Faulkner. Octavo 6 339pp. Red cloth spine patterned boards title stamped in gilt on spine. Top edge gilt. Solid text block faint sunning to the cloth spine point of wear to lower edge of front board a near fine example. Lacking the publisher's original acetate jacket. Signed by the author on the limitation page number 194 of 250 copies. William Faulkner 1897-1962 was a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author recognized for A Fable in 1955 and The Reivers in 1963. The Sound and the Fury As I Lay Dying and Light in August were recognized by The Modern Library on their 1998 list of 100 Best English-language Novels of the 20th Century. Faulkner primarily set his stories in the American South many of which took place in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County. Random House unknown
193124658New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith 1931. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. quarter brown cloth spine and beige covers. Top edge silver. Fine. 358 pages. 21.5 x 14 cm. Limited edition copy 120 of 229 copies signed by Faulkner. Faulkner's first short story collection. A very fresh and bright almost as new copy with wide text margins. Receipt from Philip Duschnes Rare Books laid-in. Lacks original glassine jacket. Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith hardcover
193160040New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith 1931. First edition of Faulkner's first collection of stories. Octavo original cloth pictorial endpapers blue topstain. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of wear. Jacket design by Arthur Hawkins. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase. A very sharp example. Appearing two years after The Sound and the Fury Faulkner’s These 13 was issued on September 13 1931 while he was writing the novel Light in August. These 13 won early praise as a collection of stories that “are for the most part Faulkner novels in miniature†with A Rose For Emily highlighted as “one of the strongest†tales and That Evening Sun as “perhaps the most perfect story in the collection.†Faulkner is “the latest star in the American literary firmament… This collection of his short stories in unreservedly recommended†New York Times. Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith hardcover
19547106New York: Random House 1954. First edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First printing one of 1000 copies signed and numbered by William Faulkner. Publisher's blue cloth. Top edge dark blue. Some toning to endpapers at gutter and some offsetting from title-page to facing blank. Publisher's glassine dust jacket quite chipped with back panel separating. Some dustsoiling and shelfwear to publisher's slipcase. A bright Near Fine copy of the book in the Very Good slipcase and Good glassine.<br /> <br /> William Faulkner's 1954 novel which won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize A Fable took Faulkner over ten years to write. Set in World War I - and inspired closely by the life of Jesus - the novel follows Corporal Stephan whose actions end up bringing a halt to the war. "Whatever its 'sources' if such these be Faulkner has stamped A Fable as his own. His method of delayed revelation is present in extreme form and will make difficult reading for some and exciting reading for others. His style at times very demanding of the reader rises often to magnificence" contemporary New York Times review. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. Random House unknown
1930500434London: Chatto & Windus 1930. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. First English edition. Preface by Richard Hughes. Green cloth titled in gold. A bit of foxing on the foredge else fine in a lightly age-toned very good or better dust jacket with a tiny nick and tear. An attractive copy of the author's first novel. Chatto & Windus hardcover
1938324342New York: Random House 1938. First edition. 293 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Gray cloth. Fine in very good plus dust jacket spine toned some very minor chips at ends. First edition. 293 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The Unvanquished was first published serially in The Saturday Evening Post in 6 separate issues. This is the first edition in book form. Random House unknown
19392107015Random House 1939. signed limited. hardcover. near fine. SIGNED LIMITED edition. 1/250 copies this being number 55. Book near fine some rubbing along edges. a couple of soiling spots on front cover spine slightly tanned. Housed in custom-made slipcase. Random House unknown
193603542ABSALOM ABSALOM! Random House 1936first edition closed half inch tear to the fore edge margin of the rear end-paper else a bright near fine copy in a most attractive vg dust-wrapper with some shallow chipping to the dust-wrapper spine extremities which has had some minor restoration as has had the upper margin of the the front dust-wrapper panel. Random House unknown
19293381New York: Jonathan Cape 1929. Good. First state first printing of Faulkner's 1929 masterpiece. Black white and gray paper-covered boards white cloth spine stamped in black with a blue-gray top stain. Small chip to top of spine and a mark from a former price sticker to the front cover. Rear end paper beginning to come loose at the spine. Otherwise a clean interior without lean. Jonathan Cape unknown
193014639New York: Jonathan Cape: Harrison Smith 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/Poor. First state with the dropped "I" on page 11. Good in a Poor jacket unclipped $2.50 lightly soiled split in two at the top spine fold chips and tears at the folds edges and corners missing the bottom half of the spine. Beige cloth soiled at the spine and lightly on the boards some tears at the joints. Bound with some reading wear and a slight forward lean former owner's signature inside the front board stamp of the Pelican Book Shop on the front endpaper bookseller ticket at the rear clean otherwise. Faulkner's classic southern gothic about the burial of Addie Bundren often cited as one of the best novels of the 20th century. Jonathan Cape: Harrison Smith hardcover
1934WF077New York: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas 1934 First edition signed limited issue of 360 numbered copies. Signed by Faulkner on the limitation page. Publisher's maroon and black cloths lettered in gilt black top stain printed on rag paper. About near fine with some light wear to the spine ends light fading and slight lean to the spine bookseller's plate to the rear pastedown bright and clean interior. Overall a pleasing copy. Petersen A16.1a. Doctor Martino is a collection of short stories that includes "Fox Hunt" "There Was a Queen" "The Leg" "Mountain Victory" "Death Drag" and "Honor" among others. In these stories Faulkner experiments with a variety of literary styles and techniques; some of the stories such as "Doctor Martino" and "Beyond" contain elements of the supernatural while others such as "Black Music" and "Smoke" are indicative of the author's experimentation with the detective genre. Notably the most popular stories in the collection including "The Hound" and "Wash" are set in the post-war south in Faulkner's typical fashion and foreshadow his later novels The Hamlet 1940 and Absalom Absalom! 1936. Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine. New York: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas hardcover books
1932WRCLIT54960Milwaukee: The Casanova Press 1932. Stiff printed wrappers. Portrait. A fine partially unopened copy in typically worn bruised and faded slipcase. First edition. One of 525 numbered copies. This copy has been inscribed twice by the printer/designer and copublisher Paul Romaine once at the conclusion of his preface and again at greater length on the blank recto facing the colophon. The inscriptions are dated 1966 and the latter consists of a dozen lines about the history of how the book came to be plus his signature and date. PETERSEN A11a. MASSEY 753. The Casanova Press unknown books
19391401003Random House 1939. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Fine in a very good dust jacket. First Printing stated on the copyright page. Original price of $2.50 printed on the front flap of the dust jacket. A bright clean square copy. A very small closed tear at bottom of the title page. Jacket has very minor chipping and rubbing along the corners and spine ends. Comes housed in a custom-made slipcase. Random House hardcover books
19311312068Jonathan Cape 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very good in a very good dust jacket. First Edition "First Published 1931" stated on copyright page. Paper at rear inside hinge cracking. Original price of $2.50 printed on front flap of dust jacket. Jacket shows sun fading along the spine and slight chipping closed tear at bottom of front hinge to flap. Jonathan Cape hardcover books
19321105868vo. New York: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas 1932. 8vo iv 480 pp. with title-vignette. Original tan cloth lettered in orange to upper board backstrip lettered in blue top-edge orange with original unclipped $2.50 pictorial dust jacket. Dust-jacket faded and with a few marks and a short closed tear to the bottom edge of the upper panel. § First edition first printing. A fine copy of Light in August in the iconic jacket designed by Arthur Hawkins. Faulkner's incomparable modernist classic of race sex class and religion in inter-war Mississippi. Harrison Smith & Robert Haas hardcover books
19321086788vo. New York: Harrison Smith & Robert Haas 1932. 8vo iv 480 pp. with title-vignette. Original tan cloth lettered in orange to upper board backstrip lettered in blue with original pictorial dust jacket top-edge orange. Dust jacket has a few tiny nicks at the edges remnants of the original glassine wrapper remain intact a very good copy. § First edition first printing. A fine copy of Light in August in the iconic jacket designed by Arthur Hawkins. Faulkner's incomparable modernist classic of race sex class and religion in inter-war Mississippi. Harrison Smith & Robert Haas hardcover books
1954140947638New York: Random House Inc 1954. Signed Limited Edition. Fine. First edition. #191 of a limited 1000 copies signed and numbered by William Faulkner. xii 437 pp. Bound in publisher's dark blue stamped cloth; dark blue topstain. Housed in the publisher's gray slipcase with white and dark blue paper label. Fine in a Very Good slipcase with bumped crown edge wear light soiling and faint toning to label. A handsome production of Faulkner's novel set during WWI that won the Pultizer Prize and the National Book Award in 1955. Random House, Inc unknown
24922FAULKNER William. The Hamlet. Orig. cloth dust jacket. N.Y.: Random House 1940. First edition first printing. A fine copy. In a cloth folding box. unknown
1951365428New York: Random House 1951. First Edition no. 533 of 750 copies signed by the author. 1 vols. 8vo. Cloth and marbled boards near fine. First Edition no. 533 of 750 copies signed by the author. 1 vols. 8vo. Random House unknown
1926116798New York: Boni & Liveright 1926. First edition of Faulkner's first book. Octavo original cloth. In near fine condition with a touch of shelfwear. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell chemise and box. Faulkner’s first novel Soldiers’ Pay 1926 is among the most memorable works to emerge from the First World War. Through the story of a wounded veteran’s homecoming it examines the impact of soldiers’ return from war on the people―particularly the women―who were left behind Boni & Liveright hardcover
194030034New York:: Random House 1940. First edition first printing in the earliest state of the dust jacket. publishers black cloth in dust jacket. A very good copy in a jacket with some light browning to the spine and some minor rubbing to the joints and top edge. 8vo. Random House, hardcover
1957365833Random House 1957. First Edition number 160 of 500 copies signed by the author. 371 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Black buckram near fine. First Edition number 160 of 500 copies signed by the author. 371 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The third novel in the Snopes Trilogy. Peterson A52.2Photo Random House unknown
