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Faulkner, William. The Wild Palms. Random House, 1939.
Price: US$1800.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: SIGNED LIMITED edition. 1/250 copies, this being number 55. Book near fine, some rubbing along edges., a couple of soiling spots on front cover, spine slightly tanned. Housed in custom-made slipcase.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
FAULKNER, William.. The Wild Palms.. New York: Random House, 1939, 1939.
Price: US$1938.26 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing, limited issue, number 171 of 250 copies numbered and signed by the author. Octavo. Original red buckram-backed wood-patterned boards, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. Spine sunned, the binding otherwise sound and square, internally crisp; a very good copy indeed.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Faulkner, William. The Wild Palms [SIGNED LIMITED EDITION]. Random House, 1939.
Price: US$1950.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, 1st printing (so stated). LIMITED EDITION, this is number 13 of only 250 copies. SIGNED by FAULKNER on the limitation page. Top edge gilt. Light toning to the top inch of front cover, otherwise better than NEAR FINE (no names, bookplates, remainder marks, or writing of any kind, etc.), with publisher's original (?) acetate dust jacket A stunning, tight, square copy!
Seller: Agathon Books, Spokane, WA, U.S.A.
Faulkner, William. The Wild Palms. Random House, New York, 1939.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo, [6], 339pp. Red cloth spine, patterned boards, title stamped in gilt on spine. Top edge gilt. Solid text block, light rubbing to corners, a near fine example. In the publisher's original acetate jacket, short closed tears and creases, loss along top edge, a very good example. Signed by the author on the limitation page, number 92 of 250 copies. William Faulkner (1897-1962) was a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author, recognized for A Fable in 1955 and The Reivers in 1963. The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, and Light in August were recognized by The Modern Library on their 1998 list of 100 Best English-language Novels of the 20th Century. Faulkner primarily set his stories in the American South, many of which took place in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County.
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
WILLIAM FAULKNER. WILD PALMS. Random House, N.Y., 1939.
Price: US$2400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good+ tight copy in custom, clam shell box. Signed Limited Edition, Number 40 of 250 copies. Light rubbing to edges, and the cloth at the corners. Light fade to cloth spine. Copy comes with a new acetate and onion skin wrapper.
Seller: Booklegger's Fine Books ABAA, Park Ridge, IL, U.S.A.
Faulkner, William. The Wild Palms (Signed Limited Edition). Random House, New York, 1939.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, with burgundy quarter cloth over wood-grain papered boards. Copy 148 of two hundred fifty copies, signed by Faulkner on the limitation page. Slightest bit of chipping to edges, otherwise Fine. A clean, square and bright copy of this literary classic. Consisting of two interwoven short stories with opposing perspectives on love, grief, and sacrifice, The Wild Palms is one of Faulkner's most experimental works. "When I reached the end of what is now the first section of The Wild Palms, I realized suddenly that something was missing, it needed emphasis, something to lift it like counterpoint in music. So I .raised it to pitch again with another section of its antithesis, which is the story of a man who got his love and spent the rest of the book fleeing from it" (Faulkner). About Fine.
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books, Inc. -- ABAA, ILAB, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Faulkner, William. The Wild Palms. Random House, New York, 1939.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, number 89 of 250 copies signed by the author. 339 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. One of 250 Signed Copies. Peterson A19d Wood-grained boards and red cloth spine. Very near fine First Edition, number 89 of 250 copies signed by the author.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Faulkner, William. The Wild Palms.. Random House, New York, 1939.
Price: US$2750.00 + shipping
Description: Signed limited edition, number 14 of only 250 examples. In near fine condition, without the usual fading accustomed to this title. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase. Uncommon in this condition. 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.
Faulkner, William. The Wild Palms. Random House, New York, 1939.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: SIGNED/LIMITED EDITION OF 250 numbered copies authentically SIGNED by William Faulkner on the limitation page. A wonderful copy bound in the publisher's ORIGINAL cloth. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning with minor wear to the edges. The pages are clean with NO marks or bookplates in the book. A lovely copy SIGNED by the author.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Faulkner, William. Wild Palms. Random House, 1939.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: SIGNED/LIMITED EDITION. A beautiful copy SIGNED by William Faulkner. The book is in nice condition. The binding is tight, and the boards are crisp with minor wear to the spine and edges. The pages are clean with NO marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a superb copy of this limited edition of 250 copies SIGNED by the author with a custom acetate cover to protect the book. We buy SIGNED Faulkner First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.