New York: Random House, 1936. First Edition. Faulkner's ninth novel, an epic tale centered around the life of Thomas Sutpen, born and raised poor in backwoods Appalachia, and his quest to become, at any cost, a man of wealth and power. It remains one of Faulkner's most challenging works, and..... More
New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1934. First Edition. Attractive copy of Faulkner's second collection of short fiction. Of the 14 stories presented in this collection, "Black Magic" and "Leg" appear for the first time. Peterson A15a; Brodsky & Hamblin 358. First Printing, trade issue. Octavo (19.5cm); indigo cloth..... More
New York: Random House, 1942. First Edition. "Faulkner intended this as a novel, though it includes material previously (or concurrently) published as individual stories. The sections are entitled "Was," "The Fire and the Hearth," "Pantaloon in Black," "The Old People," "The Bear," "Delta Autumn," and "Go Down, Moses." Generally these..... More
New York: Random House, 1940. First Edition. An attractive copy of the first volume in Faulkner's Snopes Trilogy. Basis for Martin Ritt's 1958 film The Long, Hot Summer, starring Paul Newman, Orson Welles, and Joanne Woodward. Petersen A20a. First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm); black cloth, with titling and rule stamped in..... More
New York: Random House, 1948. First Edition. Novel set in rural Mississippi during the 1940's, dealing heavily with race relations and centered around the murder of a white man and the black man accused of the killing. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone title, and basis for the highly-regarded 1949 Clarence Brown film..... More
New York: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1932. First Edition. Faulkner's seventh novel, set in the American South during the days of Prohibition and Jim Crow, exploring themes of race, class, sex, and faith. "At its base, this is a simple, small-town idyll, but in execution it becomes a complex..... More
New Orleans: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, Inc., 1935. First Edition. Faulkner's eighth novel, set in a fictionalized New Orleans during the Great Depression, and centered around the unconventional lives of a group of barnstorming pilots. Basis for Douglas Sirk's 1938 film Tarnished Angels, starring Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, and..... More
New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, 1931. First Trade Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.25cm); blue and powder grey cloth-covered boards, titled in red on spine; black topstain; decorative endpapers; dustjacket; [x],318pp. Hint of offsetting from jacket design onto spine, else a fresh, Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50)..... More
New York: Random House, 1939. First Trade Edition. "Contains two long separate stories. "The Wild Palms" is a study of integrity in love. "Old Man" is an astonishing account of the Mississippi River flood of 1927 and of an "escaped" convict's adventures in trying to get back to prison; the..... More
New York: Random House, 1938. First Trade Edition. First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm); grey cloth, with titling and decorations in red and navy blue on spine and front cover; brick red topstain; dustjacket; [viii],293,[3]pp. A fresh, Fine copy, with the toptain bright and unfaded. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.50), with a...... More