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Faulkner, William | The Wild Palms, signed limited edition

Lot 13
08.12.2023 12:00UTC -05:00
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$ 2 540
AuctioneerSotheby´s
Event locationUSA, New York
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Lot 13 | Faulkner, William | The Wild Palms, signed limited edition
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$ 2 000 – 3 000
Faulkner, William
The Wild Palms. New York: Random House, 1939

8vo. Publisher's red cloth-backed wood patterned boards, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt; spine lightly sunned, some light shelf wear.

Limited edition, first printing, number 38 of 250 copies signed by the author.

Later known as If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem, The Wild Palms is a collection of two stories with interweaving narratives. They are part of the series of novels set in the Faulkner's fictional Yoknapatawpha County, along with Soldiers' Pay, Mosquitoes, Pylon and A Fable.
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