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Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hand-printed limited edition of 100 copies, this is number 91. Red paper dust jacket with black lettering over plain beige wrappers. Jacket is faded along spine and has slight shelf wear to edges. Wrappers have faint toning, a small chip to the cover, and a few spots of soiling. Sewn binding is tight. Interior is clean. Dinkytown Antiquarian Books sticker on inside of back wrapper. Includes a facsimile printing of Faulkner's letter. While reading the novel "Pylon" by William Faulkner, Marjorie Lyons was struck by the main character never being referred to by name and sent a note to the author inquiring about that decision. Surprisingly, Faulkner responded with a brief letter in which he offered his thoughts on why it is better to love than to be loved. He ends the letter with a quote from one his other books, "Between grief and nothing, I will take grief."
Seller: Back of Beyond Books WH, Moab, UT, U.S.A.
Faulkner, William. Faulkner on Love: A Letter. Fargo: The Merrykit Press, [1974]., 1974.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited edition numbered 20 of 110 copies. Octavo, 12pp, publishers printed wrappers (fine). Facsimile of Faulkners letter of 1950 on mans capacity to loe, ending with a quote from his own Wild Palms, and transcribed in type. Responding to a reader of Pylon whom he never met.
Seller: Joe Maynard, Newburgh, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Copy #33 of 100. Sewn wraps, with red dust jacket lettered in dark blue. Faint waterstaining along the bottom edge of DJ and wraps, but still attractive, in a mylar protective wrapper.
Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.
FAULKNER, William. Faulkner on Love: A Letter to Marjorie Lyons. Merrykit Press, Fargo, 1974.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Edited by Richard Lyons. Octavo. 10pp. Stiff unprinted wrappers. Fine in fine printed red dust jacket. Copy number 30 of 100 numbered copies (of a total edition of 110). Reprints both in facsimile and in typeset-text a short but moving holograph letter written by Faulkner in 1950 in response to an offhand query sent by a reader he never met. An attractive and scarce piece.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.