Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Faulkner, William. MOSQUITOES. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1927.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 349 pages. In Good minus condition. Bound in blue cloth with yellow text. Boards have moderate rubbing and bumping to corners, bending and rubbing to spine edges, scuffing to spine, and spine text partially damaged. Textblock light age toning, bookplate on front pastedown, library stamps on title page, third to last page, and verso of both endpapers, and damp staining to verso of rear endpaper. Ex-library. Shelved Case 13. 1370907. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Faulkner, William. MOSQUITOES. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1927.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 349 pages. In Good plus condition. Bound in blue cloth with yellow text. Boards have mild rubbing and bumping to corners and bending and rubbing to spine edges. Binding somewhat loose. Textblock has partial splitting to front interior hinge, previous owner's name on half title page, and brown marks on rear endpaper and pastedown. Shelved Case 13. 1370906. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Faulkner, William. MOSQUITOES. Boni & Liveright, 1927.
Price: US$342.20 + shipping
Description: MOSQUITOES, Boni & Liveright, 1927, first edition, slight rubbing to fore edge corner tips and spine extremities, inner hinges tight and unbroken, some age toning to the page edges, else a vg copy of this, the authors second novel.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Faulkner, William. MOSQUITOES. Boni & Liveright, 1927.
Price: US$348.00 + shipping
Description: MOSQUITOES, Boni & Liveright, 1927, first edition, light wear to the corner tips and spine extremities, else a tight vg to vg+ copy of this, the authors second novel.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Faulkner, William. Mosquitoes. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1927.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Octavo hardcover in navy blue cloth lettered in yellow on spine and front cover. Patterned endpapers in white on dark blue. 349 pp. A tight, very good example with some modest rubbing to the spine lettering and a bit of spine fade. Faulkner's second novel, set in New Orleans and on a yacht on Lake Ponchartrain on which a diverse set of passengers undertake a four-day pleasure outing.
Seller: Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABAA, ILAB), Bordentown, NJ, U.S.A.
William Faulkner. Mosquitoes. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1927.
Price: US$365.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Navy cloth cover with gilt lettering is near fine. Lacking dust jacket. Bookplate of former owner on the front pastedown, rear hinge cracked. Pages are tanned and clean. First edition, scarce.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Faulkner, William. Mosquitoes. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1927.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Small card pocket to rear fly else an attractive copy. No jacket.
Seller: Gerry Kleier Rare Books, Martinez, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$385.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Navy blue cloth lettered in yellow. Patterned endpapers. 349 pp. Novel of a group of self-impressed social non-entiities (boring, buzzing parasites, hence the title) aboard the yacht of a New Orleans matron. In this early novel, Faulkner revealed a more witty, urbane side, producing a work much different from the grim "Soldier's Pay" and "Sound and The Fury". Very good example, some rubbing to the spine lettering, tiny previous owner's signature top corner of the verso of the front free endpaper. Supplied is the dust jacket from the circa 1950 "New Edition" published by Liveright after Faulkner won the Nobel Prize. The jacket features the deco-styled illustration of the characters playing cards aboard the yacht and is in fine condition.
Seller: Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABAA, ILAB), Bordentown, NJ, U.S.A.
Faulkner, William. Mosquitoes. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1927.
Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, 349pp; cloth. A serviceable copy of Faulkner's second book. A bit of a stain to the rear free endpaper; lightly shelf-rubbed and with a few spots and scratches, still a very good, bright copy, without the rare dust jacket
Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Faulkner, William. MOSQUITOES. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1927.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 349 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in blue cloth with yellow text. Boards have mild rubbing and bumping to corners and bending and rubbing to spine edges. Textblock has chipping to fore edge of pages 345-349. Shelved Case 13. 1370904. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Faulkner, William. Mosquitoes. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1927.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. [ii], 349 pp. Bound in publisher's navy cloth with orangish yellow lettering, patterned endpapers. Near Fine with minor blemishes to cloth, art deco bookplate. Faulkner's second novel.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Faulkner, William. Mosquitoes. Boni and Liveright, 1927, 1927.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st edition, first printing Very good/fine (nice clean copy of his second novel, in a beautiful first state facsimile dj)
Seller: Reed's Rare Books, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Faulkner, William. MOSQUITOES: A NOVEL. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1927.
Price: US$700.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: True First Edition-First Printing with copyright 1927. Original blue boards, rubbed at edges. Gilt title on front cover bright. Gilt on spine rubbed and faded. Clean interior, decorative endpapers with solid binding. Lovely 4th state illustrated DJ with original $3.00 price on flap. Sine and rear cover sunned, otherwise in very nice condition with protective mylar cover. Photos available. Rare. ; 8vo; 349 pages
Seller: Carlson Turner Books, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
Faulkner, William. MOSQUITOES. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1927.
Price: US$700.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 349 pages. In Good condition with Good plus dust jacket. Light brown spine with black text. Dust jacket is protected by mylar covering and has sunning to spine, tearing to bottom corner of rear cover, and mild edge wear and shelf wear. Price unclipped "$3.00". Boards have mild to moderate rubbing to corners and edges and discoloration to front cover. Text block has damp staining on verso of front endpaper and final three pages, creasing to front endpaper, and chipping to fore edge of pages 347 and 349. Fourth state dust jacket with "$3.00" price and "New Edition". Shelved in Case 13. 1370903. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. First Edition, First Printing, Fourth State Dust Jacket.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Faulkner, William. Mosquitoes. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1927.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing published 1927 with NO indication of later printing on the copyright page. A beautiful copy. The book is tight with NO cocking or leaning and is bound in the ORIGINAL publisher's blue cloth. The pages are clean with NO marks or bookplates A lovely copy.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Faulkner, William. Mosquitoes. BONI AND LIVERIGHT, NEW YORK, 1927.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: pages yellowing, mild shelf wear, corners bumped, previous owners signature on reverse of 2nd front end paper, blue cloth cover, pringing on spine fading, generally good condition DATE PUBLISHED: 1927 EDITION: FIRST EDITION 349
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Faulkner, William. Mosquitoes. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1927.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing. The book is bound in the ORIGINAL publisher's blue cloth. The binding is tight and the boards are crisp with minor wear to the edges. There is NO writing, marks or bookplates A lovely copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION with a beautiful facsimile dustjacket from the original.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
William Faulkner. Mosquitoes. Boni and Liveright, 1927.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Blue cloth with yellow/orange lettering on spine and front. Very slightly spine cocked. Blue and white floral endpapers. Interior is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket chips at spine ends, corners, and with a small chip to top edge of front panel; spine darkened and scuffed; not price clipped ($2.50); partial splits at hinges (three very small pieces of archival tissue on verso); in an archival mylar sleeve. 349 pages. Faulkner's second novel.
Seller: Boyd Used & Rare Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Faulkner, William. Mosquitoes. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1927.
Price: US$4250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1st edition of the Nobel Laureate's 2nd novel. Fine (the yellow lettering is not flaked). 1st printing dustjacket (the 2nd printing cardplayers jacket is much rarer), some rubbing and a 3/8" tear else near fine. Cheaper than any copy close to this fine, and finer than any copy close to this cheap. Mosquitoes is Faulkner before he deserved applause, but it set him up to become what he became. In it he confines a mismatched group on the yacht of a matronly, literary lion hunter and feeds none of their appetites, so we learn that characters wrapped up in themselves make very small packages.
Seller: Biblioctopus, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Faulkner, William. MOSQUITOES. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1927.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Faulkner's Huxleyesque satire on sex, swamps, artists, and boats, featuring an ungenerous portrayal of Sherwood Anderson as "Dawson Fairchild, the novelist, resembling a benevolent walrus." Faulkner's second novel took the then-fashionable form of stranding a small group of reprehensible sophisticates in intolerable circumstances and forcing them to have arch conversations with one another until rescue arrived or the book ended, whichever came first. Though rarely ranked among the author's greatest works, MOSQUITOES "owes its messiness more to uncertain intention and undisciplined exuberance than to ignorance, spite, or vacuity" (Yamaguchi). An attractive copy. 7.25'' x 5.25''. Original blue cloth with yellow lettering. Decorative blue endpapers. In original price-clipped red and green dust jacket. 349, [1] pages. Minor scuffing and a few tiny chips to jacket, spine toned. Light edgewear to boards. Interior clean.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Faulkner, William. Mosquitoes. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1927.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Mild wear, but overall, a clean and bright example of the First Edition in the First State jacket with the mosquito design and a jacket price of $2.50. Thumbnail sized chip missing from the head of the spine panel. Mild fraying at the bottom of the spine panel. The jacket spine is dusty, but overall the jacket is quite presentable. Scarce!
Seller: Gerry Kleier Rare Books, Martinez, CA, U.S.A.
Faulkner, William. Mosquitoes.. Boni & Liveright, Inc, New York, 1927.
Price: US$4800.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Faulkner's second novel. Octavo, original cloth, pictorial endpapers. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a small chip to the front flap. From the library of Virginia bibliophile and historian Christopher Clark Geest with his bookplate to the pastedown. A very nice example of this early Faulkner work. On a yacht on Lake Pontchartrain, a diverse group of strangely associated people including a social climber, famous writer, sculptor, and Englishman embark on a four-day excursion from the city of New Orleans. Evidently inspired by an similar excursion from Faulkner's own life, the novel offered a tongue in cheek criticism of the repetitive and mundane preoccupations of the New Orleans creative community Faulkner was immersed in at the time.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Faulkner, William. Mosquitoes. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1927.
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket with publisher's price of $2.50 intact. Pale orange title stamping is nice and bright. Cloth lightly rubbed at extremities, lightly mottling at rear. Light shelf lean. Previous owner personal library stamp to verso of front free end paper, small tear to edge of page. Dust jacket is heavily toned at the spine, lightly worn at corners and spine ends with several short tears at the joints, and a series of small stray ink dots to front flap. A rather nice jacketed copy of Faulkner's second novel.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Faulkner, William. Mosquitoes. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1927.
Price: US$5500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A Fine copy of the book in a Near Fine dust jacket. One small tear at the crown repaired on the verso with tape. Spine a bit toned, otherwise a fresh example. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Faulkner's second novel, Mosquitoes provides "a fascinating glimpse of the author as a young artist.introducing us to a colorful band of passengers on a boating excursion from New Orleans. This engaging, high-spirited tale -- which Faulkner wrote 'for the sake of writing because it was fun' -- provides a delightful accompaniment to his more canonical works" (Norton). On its release, Lillian Hellman declared Mosquitoes "full of the kind of swift and lusty writing that comes from a healthy, fresh pen" (NY Herald Tribune). Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$5800.00 + shipping
Description: 1st. ed. name on inside end paper. newly bound in full brown leather. Please email for info concerning any book or dust jacket. If d.j. does not appear in description, it means there is no dust jacket. Photos on request. Some books may have remainder marks. Heavy and/or oversized books require additional postage.
Seller: Frederick Bayoff Literary Books, Adrian, MI, U.S.A.
Faulkner, William. Mosquitoes. Boni & Liveright, 1927.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing. An attractive dustjacket that has benefitted from professional restoration. The end result is a beautiful dustjacket that is rich in color with no chips, tears or pieces missing. This original dustjacket still has the $2.50 price present on the front flap. The book is in nice shape. The binding is tight, and the boards are crisp with light wear to the edges. The pages are clean with no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a lovely copy of this true first edition in collector's condition. Trades and offers welcomed.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
FAULKNER, William. Mosquitoes. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1927.
Price: US$8500.00 + shipping
Description: Faulkner's second novel, which had a first printing of 3047 copies. Bookplate gently tipped to the front pastedown. Slight push to the crown and trace wear to corners, but a very near fine copy with the orange stamping on the front cover and spine still bright and fresh, in a lightly rubbed, near fine example of the first issue "mosquitoes" dust jacket. A very attractive copy of a book seldom found in this condition.
Seller: Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA (Lopezbooks), Hadley, MA, U.S.A.
FAULKNER, William.. Mosquitoes.. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1927.
Price: US$8500.00 + shipping
Description: 349 pp. 8vo. Publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First edition; first printing of jacket with mosquito design. A fine copy, without the usual effacement of the lettering on the spine, in a price-clipped jacket with a little fraying at the top of the spine, which is slightly faded. A very nice example of a difficult book to obtain in jacket. Author's second novel.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Faulkner, William. Mosquitoes. Boni & Liveright, 1927.
Price: US$8500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing published 1927 with NO indication of later printings. A wonderful copy. This ORIGINAL dustjacket has light wear to the edges with NO tears or pieces missing. This First Issue dustjacket has the printed price of $2.50 present on the front flap. The book is in great condition. The binding is tight, with no leans and the boards are crisp. The pages are exceptionally clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a beautiful copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION. Includes a custom clamshell slipcase to protect the book. We buy Faulkner First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
William Faulkner. MOSQUITOES. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1927.
Price: US$9268.55 + shipping
Description: Very Good+ in a Very Good dust jacket. 1 inch open tear at top of rear gutter. 1/2 inch closed tear at top of front panel.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Faulkner, William. Mosquitoes. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1927.
Price: US$9500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing. The book is bound in blue buckram with bright gilt lettering. The book is tight and square with no writing of any kind. The dustjacket is bright with no rubbing or chipping. The $2.50 price is present on the front flap. A truly beautiful copy. Unusual in this condition. The book is housed in a blue clamshell folding case with gilt lettering. The Book is protected in a custom cut clear mylar cover. All books are carefully wrapped and shipped in a box.
Seller: Cahill Rare Books, Mission Viejo, CA, U.S.A.
Faulkner, William. Mosquitoes. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1927.
Price: US$15000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing. A beautiful copy. This copy is SIGNED by William Faulkner on a laid in signature. This ORIGINAL First Issue dustjacket is rich in color with minor wear to the edges. The book is in excellent condition. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp with minor wear to the edges. The pages are exceptionally clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a wonderful copy SIGNED by the author housed in a custom clamshell slipcase for preservation. We buy SIGNED Faulkner First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
FAULKNER, William.. Mosquitoes.. Boni and Liveright, New York, 1927.
Price: US$25000.00 + shipping
Description: 349 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket; preserved in a custom quarter morocco folding box. First edition; in the scarce "card-player" variant dust jacket. Both (inner) hinges cracked; otherwise a very good copy without the usual effacement of lettering on the spine. Slight, unobtrusive, abrasion to the upper right corner of the front panel, front flap, and bottom of the backstrip of the dust jacket; some shallow chipping to the top of the backstrip, just touching the "M" in "Mosquitoes." This dust jacket is extremely uncommon. Author's second novel.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.