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Price: US$25.62 + shipping
Description: FIRST UK EDITION. LONDON : 1939. Hardback. Grey and green two-tone cloth; lettered in green and white to the spine. Bottom-edge untrimmed as issued. Minor wear only. Bright, tight and clean. No owner name or internal markings. A little foxing. VERY GOOD INDEED. (iv), 315 pages. 8vo. **Will be well-packed for posting/shipping**. [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, CHS, Cumberland, Everyman, GKC, Inklings, Keswick, Literature, MacDonald, Rarities, Theology and History. ]. SCARCE.
Seller: Rosley Books est. 2000, WIGTON, United Kingdom
William Faulkner. The Wild Palms; A Fable; The Town - 3 books. Chatto & Windus, London, 1939.
Price: US$66.60 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1) The Wild Palms, green and grey cloth hard cover with white titles on spine and cover wear mostly confined to some slight patches of loss of colour to boards and small remains of white marker on lower front board; no dust jacket; quite clean interior with 315 untrimmed pages; 1st UK edition published in 1939 is in good to very good condition. 2) A Fable, 1955 1st edition, pink cloth hard cover with minor war to corners and spine ends and in good to very good condition, unclipped dust jacket is only fair with tears and loss at each spine end, 392 clean pages. 3) The Town, 1958 1st edition, no dust jacket, red/salmon cloth hard cover with no wear and in very good condition, 319 pages. Three Faulkner 1st editions in good to very good condition
Seller: McGonigles', Cerne Abbas, United Kingdom
Faulkner William. THE WILD PALMS. London Chatto & Windus 1939, 1939.
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Description: First English Edition. 8vo, publishers original gray and blue-green cloth lettered in green and white on the spine . 315 pp. A fine copy, the spine mellowed somewhat by age, The front section of the dustjacket neatly cut and inserted inside the book. FIRST EDITION. "The orchestration of two major themes - flight and refuge - is achieved with overwhelming force in this novel. One of the alternating themes deals with the fierce sexual compulsion between a woman who has abandoned her husband and children and a young doctor whose career is wrecked by their tempestuous love affair. The second theme parallels the first, except that the situation is reversed. It centres about a convict who is detailed with his mates to stem the ravages of one of the worst floods in the history of the South."
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Faulkner, William. THE WILD PALMS. Chatto & Windus, London, 1939.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: First UK edition of Faulkner's novel, two alternating narratives set in New Orleans, later published under the author's preferred title of IF I FORGET THEE, JERUSALEM. The only William Faulkner novel to be quoted in a John Hughes film ("Between grief and nothing, I'll take grief," offers the principal in FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF, a drama that has no other echoes in Faulkner's exploration of responsibility, abandonment to desire, and the hard consequences of illicit freedom from society's institutions. Or does it?). 7.25'' x 5''. Original green and blue-white cloth. Green topstain. In original unclipped (7s. 6d.) green dust jacket. 315, [1] pages. Book with toned spine, bump to top lower corner; scuffing and faint foxing to endpapers with traces of adhesive residue. Light chipping and soil to jacket, single tape repair to verso, a few scuffed patches to spine and rear panel.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
FAULKNER, William.. The Wild Palms.. London, Chatto & Windus, 1939., 1939.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First English edition. 8vo. Original blue and white patterned cloth over green cloth stamped in white and green (some scattered light foxing). Dust jacket (price clipped; nicks to head and tail of spine), else very good-fine. 315 pages. No signatures or bookplates.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
FAULKNER, WILLIAM.. The Wild Palms. London: Chatto & Windus, 1939, 1939.
Price: US$1350.00 + shipping
Description: First English Edition. Ownership signature; near fine in a dust jacket with light soiling and wear. 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. The Wild Palms.. Chatto & Windus, London, 1939.
Price: US$7800.00 + shipping
Description: First British edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author's grandly inventive, heart-stopping classic novel. Octavo, original cloth. Signed by the author on the title page, "William Faulkner New York 3 March 1953." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed with no other inscribed British edition ever appearing at auction. In this feverishly beautiful novel William Faulkner interweaves two narratives, each wholly absorbing in its own right, each subtly illuminating the other. In New Orleans in 1937, a man and a woman embark on a headlong flight into the wilderness of illicit passion, fleeing her husband and the temptations of respectability. In Mississippi ten years earlier, a convict sets forth across a flooded river, risking his own chance at freedom to rescue a pregnant woman. From these separate stories Faulkner composes a symphony of deliverance and damnation, survival and self-sacrifice, a novel in which elemental danger is juxtaposed with fatal injuries of the spirit. The Wild Palms is grandly inventive, heart-stopping in its prose, and suffused on every page with the physical presence of the country that Faulkner made his own.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.