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Faulkner, William. Intruder in the Dust. Random House, New York, 1948.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing with the words "FIRST PRINTING" printed on the copyright page. This copy is SIGNED by William Faulkner on a laid in signature. This ORIGINAL dustjacket has ALL the First Issue points present with minor wear to the spine. The book is in excellent condition and is bound in the ORIGINAL publisher's cloth. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning with minor wear to the boards. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A beautiful copy SIGNED by the author. We buy SIGNED William Faulkner First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
FAULKNER, William. Intruder in the Dust. Random House, New York, 1948.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Second printing. Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by Faulkner on the front fly. A beautiful copy of this novel about murder and the mass mind, the popularity of which was instrumental in gaining Faulkner the Nobel Prize. Basis for the 1949 Clarence Brown film. Despite a lack of stars, this was considered one of the most powerful films about racial prejudice ever made. Because of his agreement with his publisher to signed numbered limited editions, Faulkner was notoriously reluctant to signed trade editions of his books, even for his closest friends. As such, this signed edition is a rarity. *Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone*.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
FAULKNER, William.. Intruder in the Dust.. Random House, New York, 1948.
Price: US$8500.00 + shipping
Description: 247 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. Preserved in a custom quarter morocco folding box. First edition, first printing, in the first dust jacket. A very good or better copy in an unchipped dust jacket which is slightly browned at the spine. Signed and inscribed by William Faulkner on the rear pastedown, to the sister-in-law of Vicki Fielden, Faulkner's adopted daughter. The book is accompanied by a handwritten reminiscence by the recipient.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Faulkner, William. Intruder In The Dust.. Random House, New York, 1948.
Price: US$12500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of this classic Faulkner novel, which explores the lives of a family of characters in the South. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Sally Burns William Faulkner 16 April." The recipient Sallie Faulkner Burns was WilliamÂFaulknerâs first cousin and was a great friend to Maud,ÂWilliamâs mother. This was given to her byÂFaulkner and has remained in the family until now. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing. Jacket design by E. McKnight Kauffer. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Set in the deep south that provided the backdrop for all of Faulkner's finest fiction, Intruder in the Dust is the novel that marks the final phase of its author's outstanding creative period. The chronicle of an elderly black farmer arrested for the murder of a white man and under threat from the lynch mob is a characteristically Faulknerian tale of dark omen, its sole ray of hope the character of the young white boy who repays an old favour by proving the innocence of the man who saved him from drowning in an icy creek.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
FAULKNER, William. Intruder in the Dust. Random House, New York, 1948.
Price: US$30000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Lettering rubbed and smudged on the boards, a couple of tiny stains or foxing on a couple of leaves, about very good in very near fine dustwrapper with a couple of very short tears (the jacket was likely married to the book, as it came to us). Housed in a custom blue cloth clamshell case with morocco spine-label gilt, one corner of the case bumped, else fine. Ownership signature of Malcolm Franklin, twice, on the front pastedown: "M. Franklin 29 Sept. '48" and below that "M. Argyle Franklin, D. of Biophysics, U. of M. Med. Center, Jackson, Miss." Inscribed by Franklin's step-father on the front fly: "Buddy from Poppy. Rowan Oak. 29 Sept 1948." Additionally Signed by Faulkner on the title page: "William Faulkner. Oxford, Miss. 29 Sept 1948." According to his bio on the Mississippi Writers web page, Malcolm was "[b]orn in 1923 in China, Malcolm Franklin is the son of Cornell and Lida Estelle Franklin and the stepson of author William Faulkner. He lived with Faulkner in Oxford, Mississippi, beginning at age six when Faulkner and his mother married in 1929. William Faulkner called Malcolm by his nickname Buddy. Franklin served as a medic during World War II. He died in 1977. His book, *Bitterweeds: Life with William Faulkner at Rowan Oak* (1977) is his memoir about life with Faulkner." Because Faulkner was obligated by contract to sign limited editions, he would rarely inscribe books, except to his very closest friends and family, and sometimes not even then. Genuine inscribed copies of his early works are rare. In the fall of 1931, Faulkner told Alfred A. Knopf, who approached him with books he had hoped to get inscribed: "People stop me on the street and in elevators and ask me to sign books, but I can't afford to do this because special signed editions are part of my stock-in-trade. Aside from that, I only sign books for my friends" (Blotner, p.294). A wonderful association copy of this novel about murder and the mass mind, the popularity of which was instrumental in gaining Faulkner the Nobel Prize. Basis for the 1949 Clarence Brown film, considered one of the most powerful films about racial prejudice ever made. *Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone*.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.