A Fable by Faulkner, William - 1954

EB: Random House, New York. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1954. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Random House. 1954. 437 pgs. Number 537 out of 1000 signed, limited copies. Signed by William Faulkner on the limitation page. First Edition/First Printing. Issued in paper covered slipcase with paper label present to the spine. Light shelfwear present. Bound in decorated blue cloth boards. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. This novel won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1955. An allegorical story of World War I, set in the trenches in France and dealing ostensibly with a mutiny in a French regiment, it was originally considered a sharp departure for Faulkner. Recently it has come to be recognized as one of his major works and an essential part of the Faulkner oeuvre. Faulkner himself fought in the war, and his descriptions of it "rise to magnificence," according to The New York Times, and include, in Malcolm Cowley's words, "some of the most powerful scenes he ever conceived." EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 437 pages; Signed by Author .