William Harrison Faulkner
Male : Novelist whose work depicts the American south. Nobel Prize 1949. Died probably from years of smoking and drinking
Nationality : American
Place of Birth : Riply, Mississippi
Date of Birth : 1897 Date of Death : 1962 Age : 65
Pseudonyms : William Falkner
Education : Univ of Mississippi
US Random House & UK by Chatto & Windus
1921-1930
Vision in Spring (1921 PP in US)
The Marble Faun (1924 PP, The Four Seas Co) - Verse
Soldiers' Pay (1926 Boni & Liveright) (1930)
Mosquitoes (1927 Boni & Liveright) (1964)
Sartoris (1929 Harcourt Brace) (1932)
The Sound and the Fury (1929 H Smith & Cape) (1931)
US First offered in 1999 for £4240
[Filmed in 1959]
As I lay Dying (1930 H Smith & Cape) (1935)
Sanctuary (1930 H Smith & Cape) (1931)
[Filmed in 1933 as "The Story of Temple Drake", and in 1960 as "Sanctuary"]
1931-1935
Idylls in the Desert (1931 Cape & H Smith) - 400 signed
These Thirteen Stories (1931 Cape & Harrison Smith, NY) - 299 signed
Offered in 1999 for £2425 & £1515
Salmagundi (1932 Casanova Press, US) - ss 525 numbered
Light in August (1932 Smith & Haas) (1933)
Miss Zilphia Gant (1932 - 300 numbered)
The Earth : A Poem (1932 Equinox, US - 1000 pamphlet)
A Green Bough (1933 Smith & Haas) - 360 signed
Doctor Martino & Other Stories (1934 Smith & Haas) - 360 signed (1934)
Pylon (1935 Cape & H Smith - 310 signed) (1935)
[Filmed in 1957 as "The Tarnished Angels"]
1936-1940
Absalom! Absalom! (1936) - 300 signed (1937)
The Unvanquished (1938) - 250 signed (1938) - ss
The Wild Palms (1939) - 250 signed (1939) ( - re-released as If I Forget Thee Jerusalem, 1939)
The Hamlet (1940) - 250 signed (1940)
1941-1950
Go Down Moses & Other Stories (1942) (1942)
Three Famous Short Novels - Spotted Horses, Old Man, The Bear (1942)
The Portable Faulkner (1946 Viking Press, NY)
Intruder in the Dust (1948) (1949)
Knight's Gambit : Six Stories (1949) (1951)
Collected Stories (1950) (1951)
1951-1955
Notes on a Horse Thief (1951 Levee Press, US)
Requiem for a Nun (1951) (1953)
An Address by William Faulkner (1952 Delta State Teachers College, US) - wrappers
Offered in 1999 for £1515
Mirrors of Chartres Street (1953 Faulkner Studies, Minneapolis UP) - 1000 numbered
A Fable (1954) (1954 C & W 15/-)
Faulkner's Country (1955 C & W) - ss
Big Woods : The Hunting Stories (1955 Random House)
1956-1960
Faulkner at Nagano (1956 Kenkyusha Ltd, Tokyo)
The Town (1957) (1958 Chatto & Windus 16/-)
Uncle Willy & Other Stories (1958 C & W)
The Collected Stories (1958 C & W) - 3 vols
New Orleans Sketches (1958 Rutgers Univ Press) (1959 Sidgwick & Jackson)
The Mansion (1959) (1961)
1961-1970
Selected Short Stories (1961 Modern Library, US) (1962 Cape)
The Reivers (1962) (1962)
[Filmed in 1969]
Early Prose and Poetry (1962 Little Brown) (1962 Cape)
Bear, Man and God : Seven Approaches to William Faulkner's The Bear (1964 RH) - ss
The Tall Men & Other Stories (1965 Kyoto)
Essays, Speeches, and Public Letters (1965) (1967 C & W)
The Faulkner - Cowley File : Letters and Memories 1944-1962 (1966 C & W)
The Wishing Tree (1967 Random House) - 500 Numbered - ss. Don Bolognese
A Rose for Emily (1970 Merrill, US) - ss
Marionettes (1970 Virginia UP - 126 in slipcase)
After 1971
Flags in the Dust (1973 RH)
The First Edition Society : Selected Letters of William Faulkner (1976 Franklin Library)
Fairchild's Story (1976 Warren Editions, US) - ss
The Uncollected Stories (1979) RH) (1979 Franklin Library)
Mississippi Poems (1979 Yoknapatawpha Press, US)
Helen : A Courtship (1981 Yoknapatawpha Press, US)
Father Abraham (1983 RH) - ss
Hunting Stories (1988 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - etchings by Neil Welliver. 1000 signed
READING
Linton R Massey : Man Working, 1919-1962 - A Catalogue of the William Faulkner Collections
(1968 Univ of Virginia)
Joseph Blotner : Faulkner - A Biography (1974 Chatto & Windus) - 2 vols
Frederick R Karl : William Faulkner - American Writer (1989 W & N, NY) (1989 Faber £25)