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1957125095New York: Random House 1957. First edition first state with the 5/57 at the bottom of the front flap of the dust jacket. Octavo original cloth. Signed by the author on the title page in the year of publication "11 Nov 57 Best wishes William Faulkner." With the publisher's advance review copy slip dated May 1 1957 laid in and a copy of the jacket photograph of Faulkner by Phyllis Cerf laid in. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with only light rubbing to the crown of the spine bookplate. Jacket design by Push Pin Studios. Rare and desirable signed in the year of publication. The Town follows the fictional Snopes family of Mississippi. It is the second of the "Snopes" trilogy following The Hamlet 1940 and completed by The Mansion 1959. Random House hardcover
1932161212New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas 1932. First Edition. First Edition. First state with orange lettering on the front board blue lettering on the spine and "Jefferson" on the first line of page 340. <br /> <br /> Fine in a brilliant Near Fine dust jacket. Dust jacket with an impression from an old dust jacket protector on the verso and with a blindstamp on the fore-edge of the rear flap. A truly exceptional example.<br /> <br /> Housed in a maroon cloth clamshell box. Harrison Smith and Robert Haas unknown
4646Faulkner 's long and detailed interest in sailing is reflected in this unusual and rare letter written about 1948 shortly before he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He likely wrote from Oxford Mississippi. Faulkner discusses the changes he wants for his small sloop and illustrates how he wanted to refit the sails. After offering his own ideas he asks for advice from his corespondent Eric James Devine. Faulkner sketches the "New Sail" he wants for his boat and explains that "a Navy bloke" his Marine fighter pilot nephew knows will "make me a suit of sails out of airplane linen a little lighter than the present canvas. They wont sic cost me anything.then I shall take the old jib and try to rig some kind of skysail maybe turn it upside down a balloon spkr something like that. What do you think will happen.Sketch me a rig on paper will you My own idea herewith." He labels two parts of his drawing in pencil. Faulkner suggests a gift of a pipe to Devine in the last paragraph and signs in pencil "Bill." The illustration was likely intended to clarify the writer's own words although he didn't win the prize until the year after he wrote our letter. <br /> <br /> A photograph of Faulkner in his sailboat accompanies the letter. Condition: center fold is prominent and in tact other folds visible. Letter measures 8 x 11 inches and floats on a dark gray mat overlaid with a white mat framed in black satin finished wood matted and framed in museum quality materials framed in 5/8/inch black satin wood. Frame measures 16 x 18 3/4/inches and the photo measures 8 x 10 inches in pocket on back of frame. Faulkner's novel "Intruder in the Dust" came out in 1948 and was made into a film the following year 1949 the same year he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. unknown
1929139490New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith 1929. First edition first printing of Faulkner’s masterpiece. Octavo original half cloth over black and white patterned paper boards. Very good in a very good second state dust jacket with Humanity Uprooted priced at $3.50 instead of $3.00 on the rear panel. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Published in 1929 The Sound and the Fury was Faulkner's fourth novel and was not immediately successful. In 1931 however when Faulkner's sixth novel Sanctuary was published—a sensationalist story which Faulkner later said was written only for money—The Sound and the Fury also became commercially successful and Faulkner began to receive critical attention. The four parts of the novel relate many of the same episodes each from a different point of view and therefore with emphasis on different themes and events. This interweaving and nonlinear structure makes any true synopsis of the novel difficult especially since the narrators are all unreliable in their own way making their accounts not necessarily trustworthy at all times. When Faulkner began writing the story that would develop into The Sound and the Fury it "was tentatively titled ‘Twilight’ and narrated by a fourth Compson child" but as the story progressed into a larger work he renamed it drawing its title from Macbeth's famous soliloquy from act 5 scene 5 of William Shakespeare's Macbeth: "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out out brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot full of sound and fury Signifying nothing. Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith hardcover
195410208New York:: Random House 1954. Uncorrected proof of the first edition "for advance readers." . original blue printed paper covers with a white cloth ribbon tie at the top. Some minor edge wear; very well preserved. The first leaf is print-dated December 22 1953; the next to last January 7 1954. Random House, hardcover
194873798New York:: Random House 1948. First edition first printing in the first dust jacket. publisher's cloth in dust jacket. Preserved in a custom quarter morocco folding box. A very good or better copy in an unchipped dust jacket which is slightly browned at the spine. 8vo. Signed and inscribed by William Faulkner on the rear pastedown to the sister-in-law of Vicki Fielden Faulkner's adopted daughter. The book is accompanied by a handwritten reminiscence by the recipient. Random House, hardcover
193279413New York:: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas 1932. First edition first printing first binding; in the correct first printing dust jacket with the original glassine wrapper preserved now inside the printed dust jacket. publisher's cloth in printed dust jacket and glassine; preserved in a custom full leather clamshell folding box. Just about fine a fine copy. The glassine is chipped but the printed jacket is in beautiful condition with virtually no fading to the orange on the spine. . 8vo. Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, hardcover
1927034923New York: Boni & Liveright. 1927. Faulkner's second novel which had a first printing of 3047 copies. Bookplate gently tipped to the front pastedown. Slight push to the crown and trace wear to corners but a very near fine copy with the orange stamping on the front cover and spine still bright and fresh in a lightly rubbed near fine example of the first issue "mosquitoes" dust jacket. A very attractive copy of a book seldom found in this condition. Boni & Liveright unknown
19279139New York:: Boni and Liveright 1927. First edition; first printing of jacket with mosquito design. Publisher's cloth in dust jacket. A fine copy without the usual effacement of the lettering on the spine in a price-clipped jacket with a little fraying at the top of the spine which is slightly faded. A very nice example of a difficult book to obtain in jacket. 8vo. Author's second novel. Boni and Liveright, hardcover
193180122New York:: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith 1931. First edition. publisher's cloth-backed boards in dust jacket. Armorial bookplate on pastedown; otherwise a very near fine copy in a dust jacket with some very slight wear and the usual tanning to the backstrip. . 8vo. Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, hardcover
192969734New York:: Harcourt Brace And Company 1929. First edition; first printing; one of only 1998 copies. Publisher's black cloth in dust jacket. Some light spotting to the cloth; slight rubbing to edges; else a bright copy with the lettering on the spine without the usual effacement. The jacket has a shallow chip at the top of the backstrip not affecting the title. The backstrip is slightly faded and there is a short closed tear to the top of the back panel. An extremely attractive copy of a scarce book with jacket printed on very thin paper. . 8vo. Harcourt, Brace And Company, hardcover
1927183208New York: Boni & Liveright 1927. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. 1 inch open tear at top of rear gutter. 1/2 inch closed tear at top of front panel. Boni & Liveright hardcover
1932103<p>Book has been beautifully rebound in maroon leather by Sangorski and Sutcliff of London considered one of the most important book binding companies of the 20th century. Story of a white woman during prohibition in the American South searching for her unborn child's father. Pages and cover are in excellent condition. Gold on edging inside.</p> Harrison Smith & Robert Haas hardcover
1939144096London: Chatto & Windus 1939. First British edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's grandly inventive heart-stopping classic novel. Octavo original cloth. Signed by the author on the title page "William Faulkner New York 3 March 1953." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed with no other inscribed British edition ever appearing at auction. In this feverishly beautiful novel William Faulkner interweaves two narratives each wholly absorbing in its own right each subtly illuminating the other. In New Orleans in 1937 a man and a woman embark on a headlong flight into the wilderness of illicit passion fleeing her husband and the temptations of respectability. In Mississippi ten years earlier a convict sets forth across a flooded river risking his own chance at freedom to rescue a pregnant woman. From these separate stories Faulkner composes a symphony of deliverance and damnation survival and self-sacrifice a novel in which elemental danger is juxtaposed with fatal injuries of the spirit. The Wild Palms is grandly inventive heart-stopping in its prose and suffused on every page with the physical presence of the country that Faulkner made his own. Chatto & Windus hardcover
19301508059Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith 1930. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A fine first edition first issue in a near fine dust jacket. One of only 750 copies with the first issue dropped I on page 11. Jacket is unrestored. Housed in a custom-made collector's clamshell case. Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith hardcover books
1939115342New York: Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith 1939. First edition first issue one of 750 copies with dropped "I" on p. 11 and in the first state binding with lettering unbroken of this work which consistently ranks as one of the greatest works of twentieth century literature. Octavo original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. An exceptional example. Faulkner had stated to have written As I Lay Dying in six weeks with no revisions and its stream-of-consciousness style suggests such an immersive spontaneity. "I set out deliberately to write a tour-de-force. Before I ever put pen to paper and set down the first word I knew what the last word would be and almost where the last period would fall" William Faulkner on As I Lay Dying. "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. Listed by Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century. It is the basis for the 2013 film bearing the same name directed and co-written by and starring James Franco. Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith hardcover books
191713382JOxford Mississippi: University of Mississippi 1917. First Edition. William Faulkner’s historic first appearance in print with his contribution of a drawing. Original flexible leather covers. Contemporary signature of a Faulkner classmate. Near fine copy. All of Faulkner’s Old Miss university yearbooks are rare especially so in this rare first appearance. University of Mississippi hardcover books
195613960JNew York: 3 pages quarto October 8 1956. Original Typed Document Signed – Contract Agreement with MGM Records in which William Faulkner agrees to allow MGM Records to produce a long play recording of him reading from his works. Signed by William Faulkner and initialed 17 times by him in the margins as well as on inserted rider clauses. The finished record “William Faulkner Reads From His Works†was issued in 1957 and contains him reading two excerpts from “Light In August†and two excerpts from “The Sound and the Fury.†3 pages, quarto unknown books
195613975JNew York: 3 pages quarto October 23 1956. Original Typed Letter Signed by William Faulkner and Typed Document Signed by Albert Camus – Typed Letter Signed from William Faulkner and signed as well by Harold Ober authorizing Albert Camus to stage his own production of “Requiem For A Nun†attached to a copy of the contract written in English. Signed by Albert Camus 3 pages October 23 1956. Camus created his own French adaptation and staged it in 1956 entitled “Requiem Pour Une Nonne†and later Camus wrote the preface to the published French translation of Faulkner’s original work. 3 pages, quarto unknown books
19291910043Harcourt Brace 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. First edition first printing inscribed by Faulkner on the title page: "William Faulkner Oxford Miss. 26 January 1931." A beautiful copy bound in full black morocco leather binding. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase. Harcourt Brace hardcover books
19291803051Harcourt Brace & Company 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Near fine first edition first printing with copyright 1929 printed on the copyright page and no indication of later printings. Rear free end paper detached from last page at binding. Previous bookseller's sticker on rear pastedown. In near fine dust jacket with very minor closed tears on either side of spine. Housed in custom-made foldout slipcase with very light scuffing. Harcourt, Brace & Company hardcover books
195424934New York:: Random House 1954. First edition later printing. publisher's cloth in dust jacket. Very good or better in a good to very good jacket with a chip at the top of the spine some closed tears and some internal tape repair. . 8vo. Inscribed on the half-title by William Faulkner to William Gibson in Iceland in 1955. Faulkner has also signed under his printed name on the title page as usual in inscribed copies. Random House, hardcover
1936140945352New York: Random House 1936. Signed Limited First Edition. Very Good. First edition first printing. One of a limited 300 numbered copies specially bound & signed by the author. Bound in publisher's original patterned paper boards over green cloth spine lettered in gilt top edges gilt. Very Good with tanning to covers and spine top corners rubbed through former owner bookplate to front free endpaper and contents tanned. A lovely copy. Random House unknown
193649125New York: Random House 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 384p plus foldout map in rear octavo. 1/300 numbered copies signed by William Faulkner This copy #185. A fine copin grean and white patterned boards and green cloth spine top edge gilt. A fine copy <br/><br/> Random House hardcover
193050890New York: Jonathan Cape: Harrison Smith 1930. Near fine in near fine jacket. First edition second issue of Faulkner's best novel with the original dust jacket in remarkably beautiful condition. One of the indisputably great novels of the twentieth century AS I LAY DYING is a story of family horror and human tragedy Faulkner claimed to have written in just six weeks without any real effort to speak of: "It just came all of a piece with no work on my part. I thought of all the natural catastrophes that could happen to a family and let them all happen." It was easy he said "real easy." 7.25'' x 5''. Original tan cloth with brown lettering. Red topstain. In original unclipped $2.50 tan dust jacket. Initial "I" aligned on page 11. 254 pages. Light pencil notation to jacket front flap; tiny contemporary bookseller ticket to rear pastedown. Book with minor soil to front joint. Light edgewear and a few traces of soil to jacket; spine toned. Jonathan Cape: Harrison Smith unknown
