William Faulkner

First edition of William Faulkner's novel Mosquitoes.

• William Faulkner (American).
• New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927.
• 349, [1] pages. 
• Original blue cloth with yellow lettering, decorative blue endpapers, in original price-clipped red and green dust jacket.

First edition of Faulkner's Huxleyesque satire on sex, swamps, artists, and boats — featuring an ungenerous portrayal of Sherwood Anderson as "Dawson Fairchild, the novelist, resembling a benevolent walrus."

"A character in a book must be consistent in all things, while man is consistent in one thing only: he is consistently vain."

Faulkner's second novel took the then-fashionable form of stranding a small group of reprehensible sophisticates in intolerable circumstances and forcing them to have arch conversations with one another until rescue arrived or the book ended, whichever came first.