104
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FAULKNER,WILLIAM.
Salmagundi and a Poem by Ernest Hemingway.
Photographic frontispiece portrait of Faulkner. 8vo, stiff buff wrappers printed in red and
black, second state with text block centered between covers, very minor wear at extremi-
ties; bookplate and discreet bookseller’s ticket on front pastedown; original board slipcase, a
few nicks, and within custom chemise and
1
/
4
morocco gilt slipcase.
FIRST EDITION
.
NUM
-
BER
464
OF
525
COPIES
. A lovely copy, with virtually no evidence of handling. Petersen
A11a.
Milwaukee: Casanova Press, 1932
[500/750]
101
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FAULKNER, WILLIAM.
Idyll in the Desert.
8vo, marbled paper boards,
printed paper label on front cover, front cover detached, rubbing to extremities and spine;
without glassine wrapper, housed in custom morocco-backed folding case.
FIRST LIMITED
EDITION
.
NUMBER
168
OF
400
COPIES SIGNED BY FAULKNER
. Petersen A10.1.
NewYork, 1931
[350/500]
102
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FAULKNER,WILLIAM.
Miss Zilphia Grant.
Small 8vo, gilt ruled and lettered
cloth, minor soiling, scattered foxing mostly to endpapers and upper page margins; original
glassine wrapper, edgewear with some minor chipping.
FIRST EDITION
,
NUMBER
267
OF
300
COPIES ONLY
.
[Dallas]:The Book Club of Texas, 1932
[1,000/1,500]
103
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FAULKNER,WILLIAM.
Mosquitoes.
8vo, gilt-lettered blue cloth,
decorative endpapers, light rubbing to
spine tips, one faint mark to front cover;
dust jacket, spine panel slightly darkened,
short closed tear to head of front panel,
tiny nicks to corners; preserved in custom
cloth drop-back case.
NewYork: Boni and Liveright, 1927
[3,500/5,000]
FIRST EDITION IN FIRST ISSUE
“
MOSQUITO
”
DESIGN DUST JACKET
.
An attractive copy of
Faulkner’s second novel, “most of it circling
around two inexhaustible topics, literature and
sex” (Fargnoli and Golay, p. 163); Petersen,
A4b.
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