FAULKNER, William.

A Fable.

[New York,] Random House, [1954].

8vo, pp. [12], 437, [1]; title-page printed in blue and black; a fine copy in the publisher’s grey-blue bevelled buckram, covers blocked with crosses in white and blue, top edge stained blue, in the original green card slipcase, printed label, but without the very rare glassine wrapper.

£1500

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US $1989 €1749

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Limited edition, no. 880 of 1000 copies signed by Faulkner. A late, overtly political novel set in the French trenches during the First World War, A Fable was the first novel to win both the Pulitzer and National Book Award. Faulkner thought it his greatest work.

Petersen A31a.

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