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Faulkner, William. Miss Zilphia Gant. The Book Club of Texas, 1932.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Number 173 of a limited first edition of 300 copies. 27 pages. Non-author presentation inscription on blank front free end leaf to "Mother Booth." and dated May 25, 1933. Laid in is a letter from the same gift giver on the letterhead of Neiman-Marcus, Dallas. Covers are a little faded over spine and show very light rubbing on edges. The upper spine corner of the bottom cover is a little discolored. Light foxing is seen on the leaves, mostly on the first and last few. Volume remains tight and otherwise intact. It is now protected in a clear mylar sleeve.
Seller: Lloyd Zimmer, Books and Maps, Chanute, KS, U.S.A.
Faulkner, William. Miss Zilphia Gant. The Book Club of Texas, Dallas, 1932.
Price: US$700.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Hardcover. Brown cloth with gilt title & design. 1st edition. #16 of 300 numbered copies. 29pp. Light wear to corners of covers. Bookplate. Else very good.
Seller: Kevin T. Ransom- Bookseller, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.
Faulkner, William. Miss Zilphia Gant. The Book Club of Texas, Dallas, Texas, 1932.
Price: US$749.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Original gilt-titled cloth. First edition. #243 of 300 copies. Slight soil to upper boards, slight bumping to points. Tight and square. The original glassine DJ is chipped and lightly foxed. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 29 pages
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
William Faulkner. Miss Zilphia Gant. the Book Club Texas, 1932.
Price: US$795.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine Copy 1/300 Copies #96 Excellent Fresh Copy. Bookplate of Judge Henry C. Kelly Excellent Rare Faulkner Title.
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.
Faulkner, William. Miss Zilphia Gant. The Book Club of Texas, Dallas, 1932.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: One of the original publications of the Book Club of Texas under Stanley Marcus. Early Yoknapatawpha story from Faulkner. Limited to 300 copies, this being #115. Some light bumping and soiling to boards else near fine.
Seller: Peruse the Stacks, Gig Harbor, WA, U.S.A.
FAULKNER, William (1897-1962). Miss Zilphia Gant. Book Club of Texas, Dallas, 1932.
Price: US$949.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First and only printing in English (although the text later appeared in Uncollected Short Stories of William Faulkner, in 1979), no. 189 of 300 numbered copies. Preface by Henry Nash Smith. 8vo: xii,29,[2]pp. Publisher's reddish-brown V-cloth, spine and upper cover ruled and lettered in gold, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed, title page printed in brown and black. Very light wear to spine tips, else clean, tight, bright and unmarked; about Fine (and apparently unread), without the original unprinted glassine dust jacket. Petersen A12.1. Man Working 621. Probably written in 1929, three years before publication in this special edition of only three hundred copies. The short story centers on development of the title character, whose mother raises her as a virtual prisoner. "Though it is crude in its handling of sexual imagery and suffers from a number of other technical problems that betray it as an early story, it does create two vivid characters. And of more importance, it reveals the author grappling with a theme that will be developed fully in some of his greatest stories and novels: the warping, destructive impact upon the psyche of the repression of those drives that connect the human being to the world of nature." (Volpe, A Reader's Guide to William Faulkner: The Short Stories) N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
Seller: Fine Editions Ltd, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.
Faulkner, William. MISS ZILPHIA GANT. The Book Club of Texas, (Dallas), 1932.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited edition of Faulkner's story of a wretched girl with a tyrannical mother, its first and only publication until its inclusion in 1979's UNCOLLECTED STORIES OF WILLIAM FAULKNER. Completed in 1928, "Miss Zilphia Gant" impressed Alfred Dashiell of Scribner's Magazine as "by far the most coherent thing of yours I have seen"; this did not mean, however, that he was willing to publish it. The story - a bleak and downright Gorey-esque study of a wan and haunted waif with eyes like holes in blotting paper who grows up to run screaming through the dark in her nightdress - was subsequently accepted by THE SOUTHWEST REVIEW, but not published there, due to Faulkner's unwillingness to make requested cuts. Even after its rediscovery and reprinting in the 1970s, "Miss Zilphia Gant" was never elevated to the exalted status of longtime anthology-fixture "A Rose For Emily," but it deserved to be. Scarce. 8'' x 5.25''. Original gilt-stamped brown cloth. 29, [1] pages. Edition of 300 copies designed and printed by J.M. Colville & Son, this copy no. 273. Light bumping and wear to boards; spine sunned with faint spotting. Bookplate to front paste-down with some offsetting to fly leaf. Minor foxing to endpapers.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Faulkner, William. Miss Zilphia Gant. The Book Club of Texas, 1932.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo. Brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine & front cover. 1/300 numbered copies. Bookplate. Small, faint stain on front cover, else very good. Internally fine.
Seller: Kevin T. Ransom- Bookseller, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.
Faulkner, William.. MISS ZILPHIA GANT.. DALLAS: THE BOOK CLUB OF TEXAS. 1932, 1932.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited Edition. One of 300 numbered copies. WPA Theatre director Hallie Flanagan's copy with her wonderfully decorated Federal Theatre of Chicago bookplate on the front pastedown. Very close to fine in brick red cloth, with gold stamping. (1"-inch scratch on front cover)
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2200.00 + shipping
Description: [Colophon:] "Miss Zilphia Gant" is published for the first time in an edition of 300 copies for distribution to the members of The Book Club of Texas It has been designed and printed by J. M. Colville & Son, at Dallas Texas This Copy is No. 102. 5 1/4" x 7 7/8", xi, 29 pp. + colophon. Finely printed on a thick, cream-toned paper with the BFK [Rives] France, watermark. Preface by Henry Smith. Bound in reddish-brown cloth with title & design of thick lines, gilt across spine, and across the front cover (scan shows spine & front cover). With a glassine paper wraparound (not shown in the scan; this shows some slight, age-related tanning, chipping to top spine edge, some splits to edges of this early, and likely, original glassine paper wraparound/dustjacket); spine of book shows slight fading to gilt; lower deckled-edge of p. 29 shows a small crease, tiny splits to paper, that might be a manufacturing flaw, else, in fine condition. Scarce & fairly early Faulkner item. "The publication of Miss Zilphia Gant by The Book Club of Texas is appropriate. Faulkner's work is so closely identified with the South that it seems almost out of place on an Eastern publisher's list. And he found an early recognition and critical appraisal in the Dallas News book page, the editor of which, John H. McGinnis, has some claim to be the reviewer who first appreciated the significance of Faulkner as new force in American fiction. A glance at some of the reviews of Faulkner's work will reveal that he has not always been so fortunate in his critics. Henry Smith. Dallas, May, 1932". (From the Preface, p. xi).
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
FAULKNER, WILLIAM.. Miss Zilphia Gant. Dallas: The Book Club of Texas, 1932, 1932.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. One of 300 numbered copies; a fine copy. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Faulkner, William. Miss Zilphia Gant. The Book Club of Texas, 1932.
Price: US$2750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition. This is the limited edition of 300 copies printed. The book is in great shape with minor wear to the boards. The binding is tight and the pages are clean. There is NO marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy in collector's condition.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Faulkner, William. Miss Zilphia Gant. The Book Club of Texas, 1932.
Price: US$3750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited Edition of 300 copies printed. A beautiful copy. The book is in excellent condition and is bound in the publisher's original cloth. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A superb copy housed in a custom clamshell slipcase for preservation.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Faulkner, William. Miss Zilphia Gant. The Book Club of Texas, 1932.
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Description: Copy #202 of a total of 300 copies. Near fine, lacking the rare tissue wrapper. This copy has been inscribed by Faulkner on its title page: "William Faulkner. Los Angeles, Cal. 23 April, 1936." Only 300 copies of this unsigned limited edition were printed, and inscribed copies are quite scarce. The story was written in 1928 and, in terms of subject matter, is similar to "Dry September" and "A Rose for Emily."
Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.