A Fable

by Faulkner, William

First edition

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Book description: New York: Random House, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. A Fine copy (a gentle surface line to the rich top stain which can be seen if the book is held at an angle to the light, lacking the rare glassine dust wrapper), in a Very Good or better slip case (a bit of wear here and there). The limited first edition of a master work, over a decade in the making, by one of the most important and influential writers of the 20th Century. Number 661 of a limited edition of 1,000 copies. Faulkner, who lacked much in the way of a formal education and was, in his own words, "just a farmer who likes to tell stories", was a tremendously important writer and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949. In spite of the mixed critical reviews received by "A Fable", the book, which Faulkner considered his masterpiece, won for Faulkner both the Pulitzer prize for Fiction and The National Book Award in 1955. The book has, of course, been SIGNED AND NUMBERED by William Faulkner. (Considering his autograph to be a valuable asset, Faulkner rarely signed any books other than the Limited Editions of his works. Individuals who sent books to him on their own initiative requesting that he sign them were met with silence, and their books were simply piled up in a stack, never to be returned, much less signed.) This is a bright, beautiful, crisp, sharp-cornered copy. A Fine copy, SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY WILLIAM FAULKNER.

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