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“WILLIAM FAULKNER AT HIS BEST”: EXCEPTIONALLY SCARCE SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION OF GO DOWN, MOSES, ONE OF ONLY 100 COPIES

FAULKNER, William. Go Down, Moses and Other Stories. New York: Random House, (1942). Octavo, original three-quarter rose cloth, top edge gilt.

Signed limited first edition, number 27 of only 100 copies signed by the author. The scarcest of all Faulkner signed limited editions, with the first book appearance of “The Bear.”

According to a contemporary review in the Boston Globe, the stories of Go Down, Moses “represent William Faulkner at his best. Which is equivalent to saying the best we have” (Brodsky 231). Massey 448. Petersen A23.2a.

Stray red crayon mark to margin of page 205, inner paper hinges slightly split, tiny mark to front board. A lovely, about-fine copy of this scarcest of the Faulkner signed first editions.