FAULKNER, WILLIAM. 1897-1962. Soldiers' Pay. New York Boni & Liveright, 1926.
The Library of David Lloyd, Part IFAULKNER, WILLIAM. 1897-1962.
Soldiers' Pay. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth printed in yellow, blue decorative endpapers, original pictorial dust jacket. Cloth lightly rubbed, some bumps to corners, jacket restored, with in-painted losses to head and foot of spine, some sunning, fading.FIRST EDITION OF FAULKNER'S FIRST NOVEL, with the rare first state jacket listing Dreiser's An American Tragedy first on the back panel advertisement. During 1925 while he was part of a New Orleans literary circle centered on Sherwood Anderson, Faulkner produced his important first novel, and Anderson was likewise instrumental in its publication. Faulkner's rarest title to find in the jacket. Petersen A2a.
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The Library of David Lloyd, Part IFAULKNER, WILLIAM. 1897-1962.
Soldiers' Pay. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1926. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth printed in yellow, blue decorative endpapers, original pictorial dust jacket. Cloth lightly rubbed, some bumps to corners, jacket restored, with in-painted losses to head and foot of spine, some sunning, fading.FIRST EDITION OF FAULKNER'S FIRST NOVEL, with the rare first state jacket listing Dreiser's An American Tragedy first on the back panel advertisement. During 1925 while he was part of a New Orleans literary circle centered on Sherwood Anderson, Faulkner produced his important first novel, and Anderson was likewise instrumental in its publication. Faulkner's rarest title to find in the jacket. Petersen A2a.