A <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book?Book%20Type=Signed%2520and%2520Inscribed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">signed</a>, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first edition</a> of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=William%20Faulkner&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">William Faulkner</a>'s The Reivers.<ul><li>William Faulkner (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Random House,&nbsp;1962.&nbsp;</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>305 pages.</li><li>Limited Edition #203/500.</li><li>Signed flat by William Faulkner on publisher's limitation page.</li><li>Burgundy spine with gilt designs and lettering.</li></ul>

The Reivers

A first edition, first printing copy of an important early collection of short stories by William Faulkner.<ul><li>William Faulkner (American).</li><li>New York: Harrison Smith &amp; Robert Haas, 1931.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Bound in publisher's grey and blue cloth, titles to spine in red, blue top stain, patterned endpapers, with the dust jacket.</li></ul>

These Thirteen

First edition, first state of Faulkner's best-known work, one of only 8,500 copies published in October 1932.<ul><li>William Faulkner (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Harrison Smith &amp; Robert Haas,&nbsp;[1932].</li><li>480 pages.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>First state, with orange lettering on front cover, blue lettering with orange star on spine and "Jefferson" for "Mottstown" on line 1 of page 340.</li><li>Jacket has first issue points of $2.50 price and list of titles on back panel starting with Boyle, Kay. </li><li>Bound in original coarse tan buckram lettered in orange on the cover and blue on the spine with an orange star, top edge orange, with two closed tears to head of spine, offsetting to endpapers, dust jacket with Japanese tissue reinforcements to folds and top and bottom and in-painting.</li><li>Housed in custom clamshell case.</li></ul>

Light in August

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">First UK edition</a> of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Faulkner&amp;pfilters.dateRange=upcoming" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Faulkner</a>'s second book to be published in England, <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=The+Sound+and+the+Fury&amp;pfilters.dateRange=past" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Sound and the Fury</a>.<ul><li>William Faulkner (American).</li><li>London:&nbsp;Chatto and Windus,&nbsp;1931.</li><li>320 pages with [4] pages of ads to rear.</li><li>Publisher's yellow cloth boards with red spine lettering, second binding, as noted in Petersen, original price-clipped dust jacket.</li></ul>

The Sound And The Fury First UK Edition

A first edition, second issue copy of Faulkner's novel, with the original dust jacket.<ul><li>William Faulkner (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Jonathan Cape: Harrison Smith,&nbsp;1930.</li><li>254 pages.</li><li>Bound in original tan cloth with brown lettering, red top stain, in original unclipped ($2.50) tan dust jacket.&nbsp;</li></ul> One of the indisputably great novels of the twentieth century, As I Lay Dying is a story of family horror and human tragedy. Faulkner claimed to have written it in just six weeks, without any real effort to speak of: "It just came all of a piece with no work on my part. I thought of all the natural catastrophes that could happen to a family and let them all happen." It was easy, he said, "real easy."

As I Lay Dying

First edition in book form of The Unvanquished, which was first published serially in The Saturday Evening Post in 6 separate issues. <ul><li>William Faulkner (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Random House,&nbsp;[1938].</li><li>293 pages.</li><li>Octavo.</li><li>Bound in full gray cloth with original dust jacket.</li></ul>

The Unvanquished

<a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/luxury/books-&amp;-manuscripts/book/first-edition?locale=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">First edition</a> of <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=William%20Faulkner&amp;tab=objects" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">William Faulkner</a>'s novel <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/search?query=Mosquitoes&amp;tab=objects&amp;sortBy=bsp_dotcom_prod_en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mosquitoes</a>.<ul><li>William Faulkner (American).</li><li>New York:&nbsp;Boni and Liveright,&nbsp;1927.</li><li>349, [1] pages.&nbsp;</li><li>Original blue cloth with yellow lettering, decorative blue endpapers, in original price-clipped red and green dust jacket.</li></ul> 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.

Mosquitoes First Edition

First edition finely bound copy of Godwin's Faulkener: A Tragedy.<ul><li>William Godwin (English).</li><li>London: for Richard Phillips, 1807.</li><li>(iii) 80 pages.</li><li>Bound by Riviere &amp; Son in full polished calf, ribbed gilt decorated spine, gilt dentelles and top edge gilt.</li><li>Housed in a brown cloth open-ended slipcase.&nbsp;</li></ul>

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