Search results for: 'FAULKNER, William.'
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FAULKNER, William. Sartoris.New York : 1929
First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to his close childhood friend on the front free endpaper: "To my good friend, Edith, from Bill," and signed by Edith M. Brown beneath the inscription; additionally signed by Faulkner on the title, "William Faulkner 28 May 1929." Brown was one of three children of Calvin S. Brown,... Learn More£32,500.00Stock Code: 124319
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FAULKNER, William. The Town.New York : 1957
First edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Ruth Ford from Bill Faulkner (See what you can do with this) Oxford 9 October 1959". Ford was an actress and model who had been a long-time family friend of Faulkner. She said of him, "one of the nicest people in Hollywood is William Faulkner, who I had... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 124320
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FAULKNER, William. Doctor MartinoNew York : 1934
First edition, first printing, trade issue. A superb presentation copy, inscribed by the author to the literary critic Malcolm Cowley on the title page: "For Malcolm Cowley William Faulkner Sherman, Conn. 20 Oct. 1948". Malcolm Cowley (1898-1989) was responsible for almost single-handedly re-establishing the literary reputation of Faulkner through the... Learn More£19,500.00Stock Code: 130074
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FAULKNER, William. The Double Dealer.New Orleans : 1925
The first appearance in print of two pieces by William Faulkner, Verses Old and Nascent: A Pilgrimage, and The Faun, as originally published in this number of The Double Dealer. Published from January 1921 to May 1926, The Double Dealer was a literary journal based on New Orleans, and one of the first to publish William Faulkner. Though short lived,... Learn More£400.00Stock Code: 125078
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FAULKNER, William. Sartoris.London : 1932
First UK edition, first impression, second binding but with the third state ads at the end, and with an example of the remainder dust jacket. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the title page, "William Faulkner for Else 11 Dec 1950". Signed and dated (1937) on the front free endpaper by the writer and journalist Thorsten Jonsson (1910-1950).... Learn More£10,000.00Stock Code: 67135
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FAULKNER, William. Sartoris.New York : 1929
First edition, first printing. Sartoris is a revised version of Faulkner's Flags in the Dust, the full text of which was not published until 1973. It was the first of Faulkner's tales set in Yoknapatawpha County, and introduces many of the characters that appear in his later works. Due to the fragile paper stock used for the dust jacket copies in such... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 131845
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FAULKNER, William. Soldier's Pay.New York : [1954]
1954 reprint of the edition originally published by Boni & Liveright in 1926. Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 97917
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FAULKNER, William. These Thirteen.New York : 1931
First edition, first printing. Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 107069
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FAULKNER, William. The Town.New York : 1957
First edition, first printing, signed limited issue, number 100 of 450 copies signed by the author and specially bound. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 132345
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FAULKNER, William. The Marble Faun.Boston : 1924
First edition, sole printing, presentation copy of Faulkner's first book. This copy has been inscribed on the front free endpaper, "To Dink Cearley from Bill Faulkner" and also signed and dated 31 December 1924 on the title page. C. L. ("Dink") Cearley was in 1924 the 19-year-old son of Abb W. Cearley (69 years old, married at age 36) and Mollie Cearley.... Learn More£57,500.00Stock Code: 118733
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FAULKNER, William. Collected Stories.New York : 1950
First edition thus collected, first printing, in the first issue binding with "The" included in the spine title. Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 87166
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FAULKNER, William. Light in August.New York : 1932
First edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed by the author to his close childhood friend on the front free endpaper, "For Myrtle Ramey, Oxford Miss 30 May 1934, William Faulkner". Myrtle Ramey and Faulkner met in third grade of Oxford Graded Public School. Faulkner skipped second grade at the age of eight and joined Ramey's class in September... Learn More£50,000.00Stock Code: 131629
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FAULKNER, William. Pylon.New York : 1935
First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author and Phoebe Omlie, who inspired one of the characters in the novel on the front free endpaper, "To a little 'big girl' in the south from Phoebe Omlie signed in her own hand and William Faulkner. Miss Stella Aiken. Oxford, Miss, April 29, 1935". Phoebe Omlie was a female aviation... Learn More£9,750.00Stock Code: 124226
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FAULKNER, William. Doctor MartinoNew York : 1934
First edition, first printing, trade issue, of Faulkner's second collection of short stories. Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 95987
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FAULKNER, William. Light in August.New York : 1932
First Edition, First Printing. Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 89380
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FAULKNER, William. Doctor Martino and Other Stories.London : 1934
First UK edition, first impression, of Faulkner's second collection of short stories, published in the same year as the US edition. One of 1,500 copies printed. Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 100547
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FAULKNER, William. Intruder In The Dust.New York : 1948
First edition, first printing. Learn More£525.00Stock Code: 96884
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FAULKNER, William. Idyll in the Desert.New York : 1931
First edition, first printing. One of 400 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author. Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 71722
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FAULKNER, William. Requiem for a Nun.New York : 1951
First edition, signed limited issue, one of 750 specially bound copies, signed by the author. This an out-of-series copy. Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 120003
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FAULKNER, William. Soldiers' Pay.London : 1930
First UK edition, second impression. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the title page, "William Faulkner for Else 11 Dec 1950". Signed and dated (1938) on the front free endpaper by the writer and journalist Thorsten Jonsson (1910-1950). Faulkner met Else Jonsson at the Nobel Prize ceremony in Sweden in December 1950. She was the... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 67250
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FAULKNER, William. Intruder In The Dust.New York : 1948
First edition, first printing. Intruder in the Dust, which explores the South's racial problems through the medium of a murder mystery, was originally planned as a short story. But the work swelled to the size of a novel and was not completed until April 1948. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 112812
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FAULKNER, William. Sartoris.New York : 1929
First edition, first printing. Sartoris is a revised version of Faulkner's Flags in the Dust, the full text of which was not published until 1973. It was the first of Faulkner's tales set in Yoknapatawpha County, and introduces many of the characters that appear in his later works Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 29322
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FAULKNER, William. Pylone (Pylon). Roman.Paris : 1946
First French language edition, first impression, originally published in the US in 1935. One of 50 hors commerce copies signed by the author on the title page, out of a total limitation of 1,040 copies. Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 68139
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FAULKNER, William. The Hamlet; The Town; The Mansion.London : 1940-58-61
First UK editions, first impressions, of the three novels forming Faulkner's Snopes Trilogy, first published in the US earlier in 1940, in 1957, and in 1959 respectively. Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 85465
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FAULKNER, William. "To the voters of Oxford" [the Beer Broadside].[Oxford, Mississippi : 1950]
Faulkner's infamous and extremely uncommon "beer broadside" was distributed in his home town of Oxford prior to a referendum on the repeal of a local ban on the sale of beer, implemented in 1944. Faulkner refuted four of the claims made by clergymen in favour of the ban, after they had printed an advertisement in the local paper, the Oxford Eagle, "proclaiming... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 118387
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FAULKNER, William. The Hamlet.New York : 1940
First edition, first printing, limited issue. One of 250 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author. Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 38808
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FAULKNER, William. The Marionettes.[Charlottesville] : 1975
First facsimile edition, first impression of Faulkner's verse play, originally written and illustrated by hand in 1920. Number 68 of an edition limited to 126 copies. Learn More£475.00Stock Code: 99632
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FAULKNER, William. New Orleans Sketches.[Tokyo] : [1955]
First edition, first printing. Presentation copy inscribed by the editor Ichiro Nishizaki on the front free endpaper, "For Dr. Garland Taylor, with remembrances and gratitude from the editor, Ichiro Nishizaki. Tokyo, Japan", and with a typescript of the English translation of his introduction tipped-in following the Japanese language version. Nishizaki... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 83742
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FAULKNER, William. The Mansion.New York : 1959
First and limited edition, number 347 of 500 copies signed by the author. The Mansion is the final novel in the Snopes trilogy, following The Hamlet (1940) and The Town (1957). Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 133625
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FAULKNER, William. These Thirteen. Stories.New York : 1931
First edition, first printing. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 99587
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FAULKNER, William. Pylon.London : 1935
First UK edition, second impression, without the advertisements to the rear. First published in the US the same year. Learn More£675.00Stock Code: 95992
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FAULKNER, William. Idyll in the Desert.New York : 1931
First edition, first printing. One of 400 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author. Learn More£1,800.00Stock Code: 46816
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FAULKNER, William. Go Down, Moses and other stories.New York : 1942
First edition, first printing of Faulkner's third collection of short stories. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 36186
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FAULKNER, William. Pylon.New York : 1935
First edition, first printing, limited issue. Number 310 of 310 copies only signed by the author; one of Faulkner's smallest limitations. Learn More£1,925.00Stock Code: 26303
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FAULKNER, William. Pylon.New York : 1935
First edition, first printing, in uncommonly bright condition. Faulkner began work on what would become Pylon as soon as he returned from a trip to New Orleans to see the Pan-American air races two months after he received his pilot's license. The novel reflects "all the enthusiasm and fascination for aeronautica of the newly-fledged pilot" (Harrison,... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 143250
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FAULKNER, William. Pylon.New York : 1935
First edition, signed limited issue, number 35 of 310 copies signed by the author, of which 300 were released for sale. Learn More£1,275.00Stock Code: 120030
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FAULKNER, William. Light in August.New York : 1932
First edition, first printing, well preserved in exceptionally bright condition under the glassine. "Few American novels are so lavish in dramatic incident, so infused with images of sensation, so precisely fixed in place and weather" (Irving Howe, William Faulkner: A Critical Study, 1957, pp. 200-14). Learn More£4,250.00Stock Code: 124264
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KELMSCOTT PRESS: MORRIS, William. Poems by the Way.Hammersmith : 1891
First edition, a superb presentation copy to Georgiana Burne-Jones, inscribed by the author on the initial blank "to Georgie from WM Oct: 22nd 1891".
Georgiana Burne-Jones met Morris through her friendship with, and eventual engagement to, Edward Burne Jones. The pair spent summer holidays with William and Jane Morris at Red House, and worked... Learn More£6,750.00Stock Code: 145199
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COOLIDGE, Calvin. Have Faith in Massachusetts.Boston & New York : 1919
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To William Faulkner, with regards, Calvin Coolidge". Although the inscription is undated it occurred prior to 1934, at which point the present copy was advertised for sale at Goodspeed's book shop in Boston. Coolidge is known to have also presented Faulkner with a copy... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 130136
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FRANK, Robert. The Americans.New York : 1959
First US edition, originally published in France on 15 May 1958 by Robert Delpire as part of its Encyclopédie Essentielle series. In the French edition Frank's photographs were accompanied by text by authors such as Simone de Beauvoir, Erskine Caldwell, William Faulkner, Henry Miller and John Steinbeck. In this edition the photos are not accompanied... Learn More£4,500.00Stock Code: 125101
