William FAULKNER

First edition in French, one of 210 numbered copies in roman numerals on alfa paper, the only deluxe copies.
Preface by Valéry Larbaud.
A handsome copy.

First British edition of 1955 (the first edition of 1954 is American), complete with its dark pink dust jacket designed by Lynton Lamb, on which one of the two prizes received by A Fable in 1955 is mentioned: the Pulitzer Prize. This is the work on which William Faulkner laboured longest and which he considered his masterpiece.

Publisher's binding in candy-pink cloth, with title and author's name gilt in a false panel at the head of the spine, and publisher's name gilt at the foot. Galignani boo

First edition in French, a Service de Presse (advance) copy.

Spine sunned with dampstains, pale dampstain to right margin of front board.

Autograph inscription signed by the translator Maurice Edgar Coindreau to Pierre Ripault.

First French edition, one of 77 numbered copies on pur fil, only deluxe issue.

Preface by Albert Camus.

Nice copy housed under a chemise and slipcase by Devauchelle.

First British edition.
Publisher's full orange cloth binding, smooth spine, top edge red, complete with its dust jacket designed by John Woodcock which shows small marginal tears and whose spine is very slightly sunned.

British first edition.
Publisher's full blue cloth binding, smooth spine, complete with its dust jacket designed by Paul Hogarth which has small marginal tears at the head of the spine.
Light marginal shadows on the endpapers.

First edition published in the Bibliothèque de La Pléiade collection and printed on Bible paper.
Rich iconography.
Handsome copy complete with its glassine wrapper and soft slipcase.

First edition published in 2900 copies, ours being one of the copies on Alfa paper.
Handsome copy.
Literary contributions by Paul Valéry: "Réponse", Valery Larbaud: "Le vaisseau de Thésée", Thomas Stearns Eliot: "Difficulté d'un homme d'état, traduction de Georges limbour", Georges Garampon "Réveil du début de l'été", Henri Michaux: "Nous autres", Georges Roditi: "L'abdication du matin", William Falkner "Une rose pour Emily, traduction de Maurice-Edgar Coindreau", Bernard Groethuysen...
Commerce, a literary review founded by Marguerite Caetani, appeared in the form of twenty-nine "quarterly notebooks published under the supervision of Valéry, Fargue and Larbaud" between 1924 a

Requiem for a Nun
First edition, one of 750 numbered copies signed by the author, the only grands papiers (deluxe) copies.

Publisher's binding in half black cloth, marbled paper boards.

Autograph signature of William Faulkner on the justification page.

A beautiful copy, complete with its original acetate dust jacket.

Second edition of this special issue devoted to American writers and poets.
Handsome copy.
Contributions by Thomas Stearns Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, Gertrude Stein, William Saroyan, William Carlos Williams, Allen Tate, E.E. Cummings, Erskine Caldwell, André Gide, Julien Green...

First edition published in the Bibliothèque de La Pléiade and printed on Bible paper.
Rich iconography.
Small harmless stains on the lower edge of the slipcase.
Handsome copy

First edition in French, one of 210 copies numbered in Roman numerals on alfa paper, the only deluxe copies.
Preface by Valéry Larbaud.
Minor light foxing at head of first endpaper.
Handsome copy.

First edition in French, one of 200 copies lettered in Roman characters on vélin pur fil paper, the tirage de tête.
A very good copy.

First edition of teh french translation by Albert Camus, one of 85 numbered copies on pur fil paper, the tirage de tête after 16 on Hollande paper.
A very good copy.

First edition.
Richly illustrated.
A very good copy complete with plastic wrappers and slipcase.