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First Edition of William Faulkner's Unvanquished
FAULKNER, WILLIAM.
Unvanquished.
New York: Random House 1938.
First edition of this novel which tells the story of the Sartoris family, who first appeared in the novel Sartoris. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Edward Shenton. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom clamshell box. An exceptional example.
Price: $1,750.00 Item Number: 138077
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First edition of William Faulkner's Sanctuary; in the rare original dust jacket
FAULKNER, WILLIAM.
Sanctuary.
New 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.
Price: $4,500.00 Item Number: 138101
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First Edition of William Faulkner's Unvanquished
FAULKNER, WILLIAM.
Unvanquished.
New York: Random House 1938.
First edition of this novel which tells the story of the Sartoris family, who first appeared in the novel Sartoris. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Edward Shenton. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. An exceptional example.
Price: $1,350.00 Item Number: 138572
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“Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life": First Edition of William Faulkner's Masterpiece The Sound and the Fury
FAULKNER, WILLIAM.
The Sound and the Fury.
New 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.
Price: $9,200.00 Item Number: 139490
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First Editions of William Faulkner's The Snopes Trilogy; In the original dust jackets
FAULKNER, WILLIAM.
The Hamlet, The Town, and The Mansion [The Snopes Trilogy].
New York: Random House 1940-1959.
First editions of each novel in Faulkner’s acclaimed Snopes Trilogy. Octavo, 3 volumes, original cloth. Each are near fine in very good to near fine dust jackets. A sharp set.
Price: $1,450.00 Item Number: 139592
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First Edition of William Faulkner's The Town
FAULKNER, WILLIAM.
The Town.
New York: Random House 1957.
First edition, first printing of the second novel in Faulkner’s celebrated Snopes trilogy with line 8 on page 327 repeated as line 10. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good later issue dust jacket. Bookplate to the front free endpaper and ownership inscription to the pastedown. Jacket design by Push Pin Studios.
Price: $150.00 Item Number: 140009
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First Edition of William Faulkner's Unvanquished
FAULKNER, WILLIAM.
Unvanquished.
New York: Random House 1938.
First edition of this novel which tells the story of the Sartoris family, who first appeared in the novel Sartoris. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated by Edward Shenton. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom slipcase. An exceptional example.
Price: $1,400.00 Item Number: 140414
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First Edition of William Faulkner's These Thirteen
FAULKNER, WILLIAM.
These Thirteen (13).
New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith 1931.
First edition of Faulkner’s first collection of stories. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers, blue topstain. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. Jacket design by Arthur Hawkins. An exceptional example.
Price: $1,200.00 Item Number: 140381
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"A Faulkner oddity with a most interesting genesis and publication history": Three original typed drafts of William Faulkner's short story Afternoon of a Cow. By Ernest V. Trueblood
FAULKNER, WILLIAM.
Afternoon of a Cow Original Typed Manuscript Drafts.
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Three original typed drafts of William Faulkner’s parodical short story “Afternoon of a Cow. By Ernest V. Trueblood.” Two complete copies, each 17 leaves; bound with brass clasps in green folders with the third copy lacking the first leaf; with 49 strikethroughs in Faulkner’s hand throughout most excising a single word. When Faulkner returned to Oxford at the end of World War I, he was writing poetry, much of it under the influence of the French Symbolists. In the summer of 1919, he borrowed Mallarmé’s title, “L’Après-midi d’un Faune,” for a 40-line poem of frustrated love. The poem appeared in The New Republicon 16 August was a revised version appeared in The Mississippian at Ole Miss in the fall. Early the next year he was to publish in Oxford a poem inviting comparison with François Villon, “Une Ballade des Femmes Perdues.” As Joseph Blotner says diplomatically, “Such poetry unsurprisingly provoked various responses.” Parodies began to appear in The Mississippian. One was “Une Ballade d’une Vache Perdue,” signed by “Lordgreyson.” The poem described the heifer Betsey, lost and wandering far from home. “It was an amusing tour de force, which Faulkner may have had in mind seventeen years later, ‘one afternoon,’ he recalled, ‘when I felt rotten with a terrible hangover.’ He was then working unhappily at Twentieth Century-Fox” (Blotner). “The story generates interest because it uses Faulkner himself as a character, much in the manner of a post-modernist writer such as Paul Auster. The story reports on a frightened cow that has fallen into a ditch during a fire. The character Faulkner, along with Oliver, a black butler, and Ernest V. Trueblood, the first-person narrator of the tale, rush to rescue the cow, but they are at first unsuccessful. In its fear and distress, the cow empties its bladder and bowels upon Faulkner, shattering the dignity of the scene. The story ends with Faulkner stripping in the door of the stable and washing. Latter, wrapped in a horse blanket, he and his friends drink to the cow” (Fargnoli & Golay). Faulkner was very fond of this story and thought it particularly funny. On 25 June 1937, he read the story to his guests after dinner in Los Angeles, telling them it was the work of a talented boy named Ernest V. Trueblood. The only person who seemed to appreciate the story was his house guest and French translator, Maurice Coindreau. The Frenchman was in Los Angeles to discuss his translation of The Sound and the Fury, which became one of the most influential and celebrated literary translations of the century. Faulkner gave Coindreau a carbon typescript of the translation as a souvenir. In 1939, Faulkner was to appropriate elements of the story for the mock chivalric romantic treatment of Ike Snopes’s love for Jack Houston’s cow in The Hamlet. During the war, Faulkner approved Coindreau’s translation of the story, published in the June/July number of Fontaine in Algiers. It first appeared in English in Furiosoin 1947 and was anthologized by Dwight Macdonald in a collection of parodies in 1950. In very good condition.
Price: $15,000.00 Item Number: 139485
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Original typed manuscript of an untitled short story by William Faulkner's father, Murry Cuthbert Falkner
FALKNER, MURRY CUTHBERT. [WILLIAM FAULKNER].
Murry Cuthbert Falkner Typed Short Story Manuscript.
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Original typed manuscript of an untitled short story by William Faulkner’s father, Murry Cuthbert Falkner [William changed the spelling of his surname from Falkner to Faulkner early in his writing career], preserved among the family’s papers and only recently discovered. Quarto, carbon typescript, 13 leaves. While it is well known that William Faulkner and his father did not get along and did not share a passion for literature, Murry Faulkner was a reader of sorts (Zane Grey was his favorite author) and he did attempt to write fiction from time to time. He also claimed never to have read any of his son’s novels. The present example of Murry’s work can be dated by the stationary to the 1920’s when he served as Secretary of the University of Mississippi. According to Judith L. Sensibar, who interviewed two of Murry’s secretaries in 1989, one of them, Martha Ida Wiseman, read a melodramatic romance Murry had written in purple ink in an Ole Miss ledger. Wiseman did not think much of Murry as a writer, but did remark that he considered himself a better writer than his son. The present story, which concerns a backwoods trapper who pursues romance in the big city, reflects Murry’s interest in pulp fiction and dime novels. Murry was not William Faulkner’s only scribbling antecedent. His great-grandfather, William Clark Falkner (1825–1889), model for the fictional John Sartoris, was the author of The White Rose of Memphis (1880), a melodrama which remained in print for thirty years and sold 160,000 copies. In very good condition.
Price: $2,500.00 Item Number: 132861