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89. -. Another copy. Top stain faded; light cloth rubbing at extremities and joints; an attractive, near fine copy, lacking the rare dust jacket.
90. FAULKNER, William. These 13. NY: Cape & Smith (1931). The first edition of this collection of stories, this being the limited edition of 299 copies, of which this is one of ten presentation copies reserved for Faulkner's use, signed by him and additionally inscribed to Ben Wasson "with love" and signed "Bill." Wasson was Faulkner's longtime friend who originally encouraged him to go to New Orleans, where he met Sherwood Anderson and where his experiences formed the basis for the novel Mosquitoes. In the years leading up to the publication of this book, Wasson was also Faulkner's agent and it was he who placed most of these stories after Faulkner's third novel, Flags in the Dust, was turned down for publication by Horace Liveright. Wasson solicited, and got, Liveright's permission to offer the novel elsewhere, as Faulkner was devastated by its rejection. Wasson showed it to Harrison Smith at Harcourt Brace, who wrote a favorable report on it to Alfred Harcourt. Harcourt liked the book but thought it needed substantial cutting, and he asked Wasson if he would shape it into publishable form. Wasson agreed and, for fifty dollars, went to work cutting a quarter of Faulkner's typescript to create the novel Sartoris out of Faulkner's 600-page manuscript of Flags in the Dust. It is hard to imagine any association copy of a Faulkner title that would carry with it the kind of historical significance that this one does. Faulkner seldom inscribed books, and significant association copies are virtually impossible to come by. Slight sunning to the edges of the covers and a bit of tanning to the spine, but still near fine without dust jacket, as issued.
91. FAULKNER, William. Miss Zilphia Gant. (Dallas): Book Club of Texas, 1932. No. 73 of 300 numbered copies. An early limited edition and one of his scarcest. Together with the prospectus for the edition, which prints "specimen page" 7 and is sunned and folded; near fine; an (unused) order form for the book, with envelope and reply envelope; and a reprint of a Dallas News story announcing the Book Club of Texas' plans to publish the edition, with a typed note from Henry Smith, whom the article names as "ambassador" in the club's attempts to secure the Faulkner story. The book is a fine copy in the original glassine dust jacket (darkened and with a few small chips). With the dust jacket present and the ephemeral pieces laid in, this is probably the finest copy of this title we have seen offered.
92. FAULKNER, William. This Earth. NY: Equinox, 1932. A single poem, published by the Equinox Cooperative Press. One sheet folded to make four pages, with illustrations by Albert Heckman. String tied in buff wrappers. A nice copy of a fragile production.
93. FAULKNER, William. Doctor Martino and Other Stories. NY: Smith & Haas, 1934. Faulkner's second collection of stories. This is the limited edition. One of 360 numbered copies signed by Faulkner. Spine cloth a bit sunned; a near fine copy, without the tissue dust jacket.
94. FAULKNER, William. Pylon. NY: Smith and Haas, 1935. The limited edition of this novel, one of 310 numbered copies signed by the author. Mild fading to the blue spine cloth; else fine in a fine slipcase. The fragile publisher's box is extremely prone to wear, and copies seldom turn up these days in the box at all, let alone in a fine box. Rare in this condition.
95. -. Same title, the trade edition. Spine gilt flaking and spine cloth a bit dulled; about near fine, lacking the dust jacket.
96. FAULKNER, William. Absalom, Absalom! NY: Random House, 1936. The limited edition of one of Faulkner's most important books, which encapsulates the failure of the old South in the doomed ambitions of one dynastic family. Contemporary critics found Faulkner's style convoluted and difficult, but this novel has come to be considered one of the classics of American literature. One of 300 numbered copies signed by the author. Owner name front pastedown; a bit of edge sunning to boards; near fine, in a custom clamshell box.
97. FAULKNER, William. The Unvanquished. NY: Random House (1938). The limited edition of this Civil War novel of the Sartoris family. One of 250 numbered copies signed by the author. A fine copy.
98. FAULKNER, William. The Hamlet. NY: Random House, 1940. The limited edition of the first book in the Snopes trilogy, which is considered one of Faulkner's great accomplishments. One of 250 numbered copies signed by the author, and one of the smallest limitations of any of Faulkner's signed editions: only Go Down, Moses (100 copies) had a smaller run, while a couple of other titles were issued with the same limitation. The later volumes of the Snopes Trilogy had much larger limitations, but because of the size of the print run of The Hamlet, there can be no more than 250 sets of the trilogy that could be assembled in the signed limited issue. Hints of foxing to the endpages and spine; still a fine copy, with the top gilt still bright and the gilt stamping on the spine still clear and unworn. Lacking the (rare) original glassine dust jacket.
99. FAULKNER, William. Go Down, Moses and Other Stories. NY: Random House (1942). The limited edition, and the smallest limitation of any of Faulkner's signed limited editions by a considerable margin: one of only 100 numbered copies signed by the author. Faulkner intended this as a novel, or sequence of related stories, and later, trade editions removed the phrase "and other stories" from the title. A bit of foxing at the hinges; still fine. A "stopper" in most serious Faulkner collections and rare in any condition, let alone fine.
100. FAULKNER, William. Intruder in the Dust. NY: Random House (1948). By most accounts, this novel -- which deals with the legacy of black-white relations in the South -- was the book that cinched Faulkner's Nobel Prize, which he won in 1949. Gilt completely intact; the hint of a bump to the crown; still a fine copy in a fine dust jacket with a quibbling bit of dustiness to the rear panel. A beautiful copy of a Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone title.
101. FAULKNER, William. The Old Man. (NY): Signet (1948). First thus: the first separate printing of the sections of The Wild Palms that were collected under this title. A Signet paperback. Very slight spine slant; trace edge wear; slight sunning to the spine; near fine.
102. FAULKNER, William. Requiem for a Nun. NY: Random House (1951). A novel written largely in the form of a play. This is the limited edition, bound in three quarter cloth and marbled paper boards. One of 750 numbered copies, signed by the author. Fine, in a supplied acetate dust jacket.
103. FAULKNER, William. The Town. NY: Random House (1957). The second book in Faulkner's Snopes Trilogy, this being the first issue, in red cloth with threaded gray endpapers and "5/57" on the dust jacket flap. Owner name, fading to top stain; else fine in a very near fine dust jacket with the slightest tanning to the spine and a hint of a crease at the crown. A very attractive copy of his first novel after winning the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the National Book Award in 1955 for A Fable.
104. -. Another copy. Bookplate front pastedown; else a fine copy in a very near fine, second issue dust jacket without the "5/57" on the front flap.
105. FAULKNER, William. The Reivers. London: Chatto & Windus, 1962. The first British edition of his second Pulitzer Prize winner and the last novel he wrote. Page edges foxed; near fine in a near fine, faintly sunned, price-clipped dust jacket.
106. FAULKNER, William. The Wishing Tree. NY: Random House, (1964). A children's story, published posthumously. Small bookplate of a noteworthy literature collection on the front pastedown; else fine in a spine-sunned, else fine dust jacket.
107. FITZGERALD, Frances. Fire in the Lake. The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam. Boston: Little Brown (1972). The uncorrected proof copy of her massive and controversial book, the first book from a general trade publisher to give voice to the Vietnamese side of the story of the war. A bestseller, a Book-of-the-Month club selection, winner of both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize. "$12.50 July" and "July list" written on front cover. Near fine in wrappers.
108. -. Same title, the second state of the proof, with the publisher's label indicating an August publication affixed to the front cover. Near fine in wrappers.
109. FORD, Richard. Independence Day. NY: Knopf, 1995. A sequel to Ford's third novel, The Sportswriter, and winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/ Faulkner Award, a rare literary double. Signed by the author on Independence Day in the year of publication. Fine in a fine dust jacket.
110. -. Same title. The advance reading copy. This is the unsigned, unboxed issue of the advance reading copy. Fine in wrappers.
111. -. Another copy of the unsigned, unboxed advance reading copy, except this copy has been signed by the author. Near fine in wrappers.
112. -. Same title. This is the advance reading copy in printed wrappers, signed by the author. Fine in the publisher's cardstock slipcase.
113. -. Another copy of the advance reading copy in printed wrappers, signed by the author. Rear cover corner-clipped; near fine in the publisher's cardstock slipcase.
114. -. Same title, the limited edition (New Orleans: B.E. Trice, 1995). One of 150 numbered copies signed by the author.
115. -. Same title, the lettered issue of the limited edition. One of 26 copies signed by the author. Quarterbound in leather. Fine in a slightly dusty slipcase.
116. -. Same title. Toronto: Little Brown (1995). The first Canadian edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket and signed by the author
117. -. Same title. London: Harvill Press, 1995. Bound sheets for the first British edition, 8 1/4" x 11 3/4", shot from typescript. Tapebound in printed cardstock covers. Signed by the author. An extremely unusual format; the author, when presented with the copy for a signature, stated that he had never seen one before -- nor had we. Small abrasion front cover; otherwise fine.
118. FRAZIER, Charles. Cold Mountain. NY: Atlantic Monthly (1997). A Civil War novel, the author's first book, and a publishing phenomenon: after a modest 25,000 copy first printing, the book went into dozens of additional printings, eventually selling more than a million copies in hardcover and winning the National Book Award -- a rare combination of literary and commercial success for any work of fiction, let alone a first novel. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket, with the John Berendt blurb attached on a label to the front panel (not exactly an issue point, as some copies had this affixed on publication day, while others didn't).
119. -. Same title, the advance reading copy (identified by the publisher as an "uncorrected manuscript"). An early, pre-publication state of the critically acclaimed bestseller. Fine in wrappers.