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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)