Collected Stories.
by Faulkner, William
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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About This Item
New York:: Random House,, 1950.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Very Good plus copy of the First Issue in Very Good price clipped dust jacket with age toning and missing two chips to spine. This collection features 42 of Faulkner's short stories spanning his writing career. Seventeen of the stories had only been published in magazines and were not (at the time of publication) included in a nay published books.
Synopsis
William Cuthbert Faulkner was a Nobel Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer. He was also a published poet and an occasional screenwriter. His novel, The Collected Stories of William Faulkner, won the National Book Award in 1951. This collection contains 42 stories, some from an earlier collection, and others previously unpublished. There are Southern gothic tales, strings of short stories that take place during the Great War, stories that are post and ante-bellum stories of the South and even stories about aviators, and the homeless. This immense collection showcases his finest bodies of work and is a true exploration of the best American literature of the twentieth century. Among the 42 selections in this book are such classics as A Bear Hunt, A Rose for Emily, Two Soldiers, The Brooch, That Evening Sun, Barn Burning, Shall Not Perish, and Dry September. National Book Award for Fiction (1951)
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Details
- Bookseller
- Gregor Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22528
- Title
- Collected Stories.
- Author
- Faulkner, William
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Printing of the First US Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Random House,
- Place of Publication
- New York:
- Date Published
- 1950.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Literature
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