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Faulkner, William. A ROSE FOR EMILY. Armed Services, 1945.
Price: US$99.98 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First paperback ed. thus. Good condition, wear to spine, wave in book. Armed Services Edition #825
Seller: Rob & June Edwards, Salem, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First edition thus, "Armed Services Edition," second issue (with the printer's error on the verso of the title page corrected). Oblong 12mo. 255, (1) pp. [printed double-column]. A collection of eight stories, one of which, "Barn Burning," had never been collected in a work solely by Faulkner. Peterson Collection A24.1; "Only printing." Three-color illustrated wrappers (rubbed, some wear to joints and spine ends, creased near joints from reading). World War II sailor's name on verso of front wrapper, poor quality paper browned, as usual, but a good copy. (1553).
Seller: Bartleby's Books, ABAA, Chevy Chase, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$210.00 + shipping
Description: NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. 825 in this important series, a paperback original for which there was no hardcover, stories selected and with an foreword by Saxe Cummins, one of the most difficult of the Faulkner "A" items, Petersen A22, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Title page with folds and a bit of loosening, else very good.
Seller: James M. Dourgarian, Bookman ABAA, Concord, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$315.00 + shipping
Description: NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition, wrappers. Softcover. No. 825 in this important series, a paperback original for which there was no hardcover, stories selected and with an foreword by Saxe Cummins, one of the most difficult of the Faulkner "A" items, Petersen A22, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI. Very good.
Seller: James M. Dourgarian, Bookman ABAA, Concord, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$420.00 + shipping
Description: NY, Armed Services Editions, n.d. (1945), first edition , wrappers. Softcover. This is the very rare first issue of this paperback original with an aerial view of the "main floor" of a home on the verso of the title page, this generally unknown issue point is the result of a printer's error as this aerial room map actually belongs to ASE No. 827 (The Indigo Necklace by Frances Crane), this is No. 825 in this important series, designed to fit the pocket of a World War II American GI, issued by the Council on Books in Wartime, the Library of Congress includes only the usual, recorded state, while Carl Petersen may have had the scarcer first issue, it wasn't noted in the Serendipity catalogue of Petersen's personal Faulkner collection, see Petersen A22, this is one of the most difficult of all Faulkner "A" items, especially in this generally unrecorded first state. Reading crease, else very good plus.
Seller: James M. Dourgarian, Bookman ABAA, Concord, CA, U.S.A.
Faulkner, William. A Rose for Emily. Armed Services Editions, New York, NY, 1945.
Price: US$795.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 256 pages. First edition, first printing. Number 825. Eight short stories selected by Saxe Cummins. He also wrote the foreword. Issued as a paperback original by the Council on Books in World War II & designed to fit in the pocket of an American GI. The verso of the title page contains a floor plan for "The Indigo Necklace" by Frances Crane which was issued as #827 in these Armed Forces editions. This was a printer's error that was quickly corrected making this copy much more unique. Near fine book with the spine edges a touch rubbed. A beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.